Sceptre

Definitions

1. A hamlet (special service area) in the Rural Municipality of Clinworth, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.

Equivalents

Examples

““Divine receptacle of excellence, let⟳ it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let⟳ the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.””

“To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.”

“But what had occupied him most was the robe he was to wear⟳ at his coronation, the robe of tissued gold, and the ruby-studded crown, and the sceptre with its rows and rings of pearls.”

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