Crowned

Examples

• The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The wreath on her bonnet crowned her well. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With the Hanoverian Dynasty England became--as the _Times_ recently styled her--a crowned republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Prince ceased to be a single and secretive Machiavellian schemer, and became merely the crowned symbol of a Machiavellian scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 781 he caused one of his sons, Pepin, who did not outlive him, to be crowned King of Italy in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Poland was not simply a crowned aristocratic republic like the British, it was a paralyzed crowned aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The race from which they sprang were crowned with a luxuriant growth of golden hair, but for many ages the present race has been entirely bald. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Now his death has crowned his life, and to the end of time it will be remembered, that he devoted himself, a willing victim, to the glory of Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The banquet was crowned with the richest wines, both foreign and domestic. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Then he attempted to rise; nor could there have been any more surprised than he when his efforts were immediately crowned with marked success. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• For example, two gates and a head is a rebus for Gates-head; a little streamlet (beck), a crowned monarch, and a ham, Beckingham. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This Pope, John XII, was finally degraded by the new German Emperor Otto, who came over the Alps and down into Italy to be crowned in 962. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Summer advanced, and, crowned with the sun's potent rays, plague shot her unerring shafts over the earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So Pepin was chosen king at a gathering of the Frankish nobles in the Merovingian capital Soissons, and anointed and crowned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The hill, crowned with wood, which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His hair, which was short, sleek, and black, was just visible beneath the capacious brim of a low-crowned brown hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They return to the house of Cephalus, Polemarchus' father, now in extreme old age, who is found sitting upon a cushioned seat crowned for a sacrifice. Plato. The Republic.
• It was the figure of an old man with a bowed head, wearing a large brimmed low-crowned hat, and a long-skirted coat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Three times was its laying attempted before success crowned the work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the great aristocratic crowned republic of Britain there was the same shrinkage of educational opportunity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For you, said Justinian, as he arose a crowned victor, and kissed the hand of Helena, we can have no fairer prize than the Olympian wreath of old. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then she loosened the soft mass of golden hair which crowned her head. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• While France experimented with a crowned republic in the west, the last division of the crowned republic of the east was in progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Success crowned his teaching almost immediately. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Her images stood in the temple, crowned as the Queen of Heaven and bearing the infant Horus in her arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mademoiselle, neither titles nor crowned heads excite my modesty; and publicity is very much my element. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But his heart was heavy, that Mother had NOT crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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