If he could not be Emperor in name, he would at least wield the sceptre.

Worthy in that hour he seemed to boast the blood and wield the sceptre of Athelstan and Alfred.

The heiress of Danton Hall was coming to wield the sceptre, and a new era would dawn with the morrow.

His son Philip was obedient to his father, and would certainly continue to wield the sceptre according to his wishes.

And since his son is of an age too tender to wield the sceptre, the boy's mother does it in his name.

The possibility that he, a Protestant, might wield the sceptre of Saint Louis, his ancestor, increased the bitterness and animosity of the Catholics.

The father could hobble about the house and garden on a crutch, but he had grown much too lazy to wield the sceptre again.

Don Philip promises, as an obedient son, to continue to wield the sceptre according to the policy of the father who intrusts it to him.

Four and twenty winters wielding the sceptre freely, wealth he dispensed.

I can tell you how Carl manages the sword; but of the way he wields the sceptre, I cannot.

He had proved, since he wielded the sceptre, that he did not lack strength of will, and he must show it again.

The dwarf pointed to the Regent, and said: If he there wielded the sceptre, there would be fewer orphans and beggars by the Nile.

"'Vyasa said, "O child, in the Krita age Manu was lord (of the Earth) wielding the sceptre.