Sceptred

Coward took the title of This Happy Breed from John of Gaunt's speech about the sceptred isle that's our one in Richard II. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Writing from Dorset, I am piqued that he overlooked the wealthy owners with empty spare houses, of which this sceptred county has more than its fair share. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even better for Google is that this sceptred isle is probably much more profitable for it than the US operation: it doesn't have a huge headquarters with endlessly circulating electric buses though it does have two nice offices near London's Victoria station and it doesn't require server farms to work across huge distances as in the US. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What a horribly morbid story about a horribly morbid reality that is creeping into every major town and city around these once sceptred Isles. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain, its sceptred isle left barren in the salt-breeze. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This further rams home the fact that the writing is on the wall for Jews in what Melanie has earlier referred to as "this sceptred isle". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Funny you should say that about the "sceptred isle," Frank P. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Grand master of British film Mike Leigh returns with another highly improvised effort charting life on this sceptred isle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Scott and of Burns without having directly in his mind, as inseparable from the subject and foremost in the picture, that old man of might, with his lion heart and sceptred crutch — Christopher North. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Themis, stern governor of the rebellious, leader of righteous men, sceptred King of manliness, who whirl your fiery sphere among the planets in their sevenfold courses through the aether wherein your blazing steeds ever bear you above the third firmament of heaven; hear me, helper of men, giver of dauntless youth! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Huzzah for the sceptred isle! posted by Carolingian @ 10:52 AM ❋ Carolingian (2007)

Disclosure: A significant part of our ancestry came from the sceptred isles, so the version of Indian history we heard from our grandparents had a different slant from the chapters we studied in our school history texts. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For those of you who live beyond the shores of this sceptred isle and are shaking your heads at me for an insular Brit 'Fog in Channel. ❋ Carla (2006)

And it may also turn out to be a bonanza for the lawyers of this sceptred isle. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

Throne, and demanding redress for this conspiracy, from the orbed and sceptred hands of Majesty itself! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Should this happen, the prospect of mass protests in these sceptred isles is by no means far-fetched. ❋ Richard (2004)

[Hey], man, have a [puff] of this [great] sceptre! ❋ Word Up (2003)

That sceptre head [girl's] body is [bangin']: everything is great ['cept] her head. ❋ Sno (2004)

Wyckyd Sceptre [rocks] [the shit out of] m,y ass, into [the toilet]. ❋ Shanana (2003)