Enthroned
[enθ'rəʊnd]
Examples
- There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He would find that most ancient type of human ruler, a god-king, enthroned, the Dalai Lama, the living Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Still and for ever did the earth roll on, enthroned in her atmospheric car, speeded by the force of the invisible coursers of never-erring necessity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was a woman of middle-age, with well-formed features of the type usually found where perspicacity is the chief quality enthroned within. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At the same moment he saw that May, serenely enthroned between Mr. van der Luyden and Mr. Selfridge Merry, had cast a quick glance down the table. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But, profound gravity sat enthroned on Wegg's countenance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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