Meanings of sceptered in English

There wasn't a knight in either team who wasn't a sceptered sovereign.

Every one is robed, sceptered, and crowned, and every one wears the purple of authority.

The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule

Choosing a mere 10 is a challenge, but here are some delightful eyebrow-raisers of the sceptered isle.

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptered hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality.

But mercy is above this sceptered sway;

The "sceptered isle" is still in a sense their mother-country, and a thousand ancestral ties attract them to its shores.

A world record "club" crowd of 82,300 for a local shindig on our sceptered little isle.

The times demanded men who would not quail in the presence of the sceptered monarch; or at his threats of imprisonment, banishment and death.

In the companion panel, "Seedtime," the waiting farmers attend her as she stands, sceptered with an Easter lily, and extends her benison on the land.

Sceptered kings, and jeweled princesses trailing robes of satin were the chief actors in her dreams.

All on earth your scepter claim; all in heaven above adore you.

I take into my hand the scepter of the kingdom of Amber.

He has no scepter in his hand, no crown upon his head.

The present-day detective king wields his scepter for precisely the same reason.