uncrown
Example Sentences
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I’ll be hanged if I uncrown such a noble monarch in that pot fashion!”
From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Edward Sylvester Ellis
So it is with all the holy things of God: if I dethrone them they will uncrown me.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
And now is cleans'd enough the flood, Which since runs cleare as doth thy blood; Of the wet pearls uncrown thy hair, And mantle thee with ermin air.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
Most of the representative city sheets, irrespective of political leanings, had for years been flaying the fifth ward king, seeking to uncrown him.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
In the great human democracy, revolution cannot uncrown the builder of bridges to place upon his throne the builder of pantry shelves.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
