Meanings of hold the sceptre in English

Moreover, boys' hands were unfit to hold the sceptre of England in such troubled times.

When disabled from age any longer to hold the sceptre of power, he designates his successor, and transmits it to his favorite!

He who holds the sceptre of the king may rule right royally.

Sain and Augustin between them held the sceptre of miniature painting under the Empire.

Finally, on the death of Obartes, his son Xisuthros held the sceptre for eighteen sari.

Not the King of France, but the Lord of Misrule held the sceptre in the capital.

For seven years he held the sceptre with a trembling hand amid all kinds of disasters.

The pacific policy wherewith he began his administration, he never abandoned during the twenty-two years while he held the sceptre.

Those who held the sceptre of power among them requested that she should make a pulpit of a neighboring wagon.

How small she was to rule over those strong, wise men of hers; how feeble the hand that held the sceptre.

His direct successor was his grandson, Abbas Pasha, who held the sceptre of Egypt as the direct heir of Ibrahim Pasha.

The Herods, who held the sceptres of provincial authority, were either base time-servers, or worse, they were monsters of lust and depravity.

The statue, of white marble, represents the Queen in a sitting position, wearing her crown and coronation robes, whilst the right hand holds the sceptre.

"The Augusta shall choose one of us for mate, and him we shall ask to hold the sceptre of Cæsar."