Kingless

It was being worked by inexpert hands, for the time was something jerky; but it was robbed of its tinny meanness and even majesty by the hugeness of a cavern's roof, as well as by the crashing, swinging march it played -- wild - wonderful -- invented for lawless hours and a kingless people. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

Even though France is currently kingless, ˜The present king of France is bald™ can be used to indicate a proposition. ❋ Pietroski, Paul (2009)

Nor have we yet reached the limits of Olynthian expansion; there are their neighbours to be thought of — the kingless or independent ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of kingless thrones, which Earth did in her heart create. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The United States of America -- that motley, multilingual, mongrel, mossbacked republic that had somehow, kingless and causeless, arisen by accident between the Crown Lands and New England. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1995)

No dwarven smith had forged a Kingsword since Duncan™s had been buried with him three hundred years before; since Kharas, Duncan™s champion, had hidden his god-forged hammer and rendered the dwarves kingless until it could be found again. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)

Puritanism, without its King, is _kingless_, anarchic; falls into dislocation, self-collision; staggers, plunges into ever deeper anarchy; King, ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

-- New generations grow up which never knew a kingless state. ❋ Louis Paul B��n��zet (1919)

And always dreaming of thy long dead princes and of the great Kings of other kingdoms in the olden time thou shalt fail to see the grandeur to which a hurrying jesting people shall attain in that kingless age. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)

Shall wrap in lasting night heaven's kingless throne. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Anybody can pass himself off as the King of this kingless country. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)

Thus the nation was for a time kingless, leaderless, and open to a deadly thrust from Boulogne. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

And that Mote was very great, and whenas it was hallowed, there arose a great lord, grey and ancient, and bewailed him before the folk, that they had no king over Oakenrealm to uphold the laws & ward the land; and "Will ye live bare and kingless for ever?" said he at last. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Beaten and kingless, the Goths retreated in great disorder; and Clovis, pursuing his march, arrived without opposition at Bordeaux, where he settled down with his Franks for the winter. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

Followed by his evil destiny, he wandered on, and found the now kingless Thebes in the grasp of the ❋ 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus (1880)

Scotland was now kingless; Galloway rebelled, and William, taken a captive to ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Nor have we yet reached the limits of Olynthian expansion; there are their neighbours to be thought of -- the kingless or independent Thracians. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)

The latter, however, describes better Zion's kingless state during her present long dispersion (Ho 3: 4, 5). ❋ Unknown (1871)

It was but to let Thibaut d'Aussigny play out his play and snare the old black fox, and then Villon had Paris to himself, was absolved from all penalty, might in the light of the new love the people had for him, do, or at least try to do, pretty much as he pleased with the kingless kingdom. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)