Crownless

Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred, ❋ M_francis (2008)

Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

Paintings and sculpture celebrate a distinctive physical type: women with long almond eyes and luminous complexions, many of them with hair dyed an improbable blond (in the days before hydrogen peroxide, they bleached their hair by spreading it over the broad brims of specially designed crownless straw hats, squirting their tresses with lemon juice, and sitting out in the sun, thus exposing their hair, but not their fair skin, to its rays). ❋ Rowland, Ingrid D. (2008)

A writhing victim in gray, masked by a crownless hat, was struggling upon the table to the evident danger of those unhappy flowers; the president was calling across the tumult in stentorian tones; but the tumult refused to fall, and the imperturbable pages were bawling upon the skirts of the crowd with stolid pertinacity. ❋ Various (N/A)

The very fact that one should have been held under the enforced conditions of the crownless king, Disraeli, was a wonder in itself. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

Not that good looks are wanting in the Bowery, for many a crownless Cleopatra mingles with its crowds. ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)

The crownless king, Disraeli, who, like many other men God has raised up, is for these times an index finger pointing out the way of Providence. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

Worcester is lost, and with it a kingdom: is he to be henceforth a crownless king and a hunted fugitive, or has the future its compensations? ❋ Various (N/A)

It does not shock our idea of human honesty much when we learn that this crownless king played a double game with Russia and Turkey. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

Some innocent member of the large fraternity, now, to use a nautical phrase, scudding under bare _polls_, was pounced upon, and over his unfortunate head the crownless hat was drawn till the ragged remnant of its brim rested upon his shoulders. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here Job gives us the key to unlock the mysteries of the crownless king and his success. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

The old man then sprinkled over the crownless head of the monarch water that was cold and rendered fragrant with lotus-petals. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The crownless king, Disraeli, who forced the Congress, is, perhaps, an unconscious instrument in the hands of Providence. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

Hats with brims and without, crownless and with peaked crowns, with streamers and with ties, so small that they challenge the ever-present bow in the hair, and so large as to give cause for another arrest in a New Orleans theater -- all the hat family will be there -- and so will fun. ❋ Mary E. Blain (N/A)

See my crownless old hat, and my elbows and knees, ❋ Various (N/A)

So Erin, the crownless Queen, sat in the dust with fetters on her limbs, her broken sword fallen from her hand, and with mournful memories lying heavy on her heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

[Bartender] [I would] like a Crownless King [please]. ❋ Gatecity_Jungle (2022)