Sceptered

And if the United States should upset mighty England in the teams opening match on Saturday, I can only imagine that throughout that sceptered isle, both sex and housework will be forgotten. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hey, Phil, I think you'll find they are called 'full stops' here in our sceptered Isle. ❋ Peter Ashley (2007)

Of course, it's a combination of the fact that the book costs too much anyway and that postage to ship from my printer to your green and sceptered-isle is likewise. ❋ Carla (2009)

Geoff Miller, your prognosis for this sceptered Isle is dark indeed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sadly, the book prizes are restricted to residents of the British isles, but as a compensation a further 3 correct entries from outwith these sceptered isles will receive a nifty wee promotional-type gewgaw currently to be decided upon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, Carroll would look totally powerful with that sceptered orb she's been craving. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Polls are palm readings for the political class, seances for the sceptered ..." ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Polls are palm readings for the political class, seances for the sceptered ... ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

(Ad Æn.ii. 632), stood the simulacre of a bearded Aphrodite with feminine body and costume, sceptered and mitred like a man. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We did focus groups up and down the sceptered isle, from way up in York, where you can barely understand what the hell they're saying, down to Kent, where they are slightly more intelligible. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Now a little half-grown black and white cat squeezed herself through the bars of the iron gate and came purring lovingly about us, unawed by the time or the place, unimpressed by the marble pomp that sepulchers a line of mighty dead that ends with a great author of yesterday and began with a sceptered monarch away back in the dawn of history, more than twelve hundred years ago .... ❋ Unknown (2003)

A queen of a sceptered isle that consisted only of a bird-filled bedroom. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)

The King and his sycophantic ministers are bent on plunging our sceptered isle into disaster! ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

It may not be about the rise-and-fall, come-and-go view that history is a zero-sum game where yesterday's sceptered isle can easily turn into tomorrow's scrap-metal wasteland. ❋ Andr&233; Aciman (1998)

In the long history of this Club, we have often heard speakers from the sceptered isle, including some of those who -- in Britain's finest hour -- stood almost alone in defence of freedom and the free world. ❋ Unknown (1969)