uncrown

Example Sentences

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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 Jowett, John Henry

Why did Jonathan visit David in the gloomy wood that day and uncrown himself for him?

From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Chappell, Clovis G.

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 Ellis, Edward Sylvester

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 Lyman, Olin L.

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 Lovelace, Richard