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Female standing right, presenting wreath to emperor standing left, holding globe and sceptre.
The sceptre is believed to be a symbol for a monarchic or theocratic order, or a combination of the two.
We were taught the symbolism of the orb and sceptre, a simultaneous lesson in civics and history.
Room after room of the Armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sceptre of the Tsars.
Each was swathed in robes of black, and all carried the sceptre that befitted their station.
It shows the Queen with orb and sceptre as emblems of her rule appearing queen-like rather than as an individualised subject.
We put into place different implementation categories, according to a sceptre ranging from autonomy to heteronomy and from soft law to hard law.
The general obverse type is of a crowned and bearded portrait inside a triangle with a hand holding a sceptre to the left and a cinquefoil or sexfoil to the right.
There are also rare plants like the insectivorous sundew, shrubby birch, marsh saxifrage, and Charles' sceptre.
This is a rare example of a once popular print and presents a traditional representation of the monarch with crown, orb and sceptre, the instruments of monarchical power.
Kings might be buried with a sceptre, and bishops with a crozier, their respective symbols of office.
I closed my eyes just now and saw him as the new king of Afghanistan, with a crown, sceptre, a long beard and great power.
The crown and sceptre, still used to inaugurate the new king or queen in England, are symbols of the supernatural power that resides in the monarch.
A king is not one who holds a sceptre merely, but one who knows how to rule.
Historiated initial of St Louis holding a sceptre and a model of the holy chapel.
The floretty sceptre represents power, and in this case, specifically the power generated by effective communication, the master key to harmony.
Here you can see glacial relics such as the saxifrage, sundew, Charles' sceptre and Jacob's ladder.
Similarly, the presence of the cuckoo on Hera's sceptre at Hermione or the invention of the panpipe were explained by fables.
His hair turns white and his sceptre becomes a cane.
Andrew Whitehead makes sense of Henry VI as an unworldly fusser: trying to cope with both sceptre and plans, he looks like a Crackerjack candidate asked to hold three cabbages.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He had not yet taken up his sceptre, as it were, and had none of the manners of princedom.
I sometimes think scorn of us as a nation that we so gladly and peaceably put our necks beneath the sceptre of such an atomy.
His sceptre, spurs, baldrick and scabbard were also of gold, and his fingers blazed with diamonds.
At the sound the bearded old man raises his sceptre, opens his mouth, and turns an hourglass.
Scruple is one-handed when a sceptre is to be seized, and a eunuch when fortune is to be wedded.
So I think, on the whole, I shall be an authoress, and let my pen be my sceptre.
Farther on is the Bird, whose right wing grazes the head and sceptre of Cepheus, with its left resting over Cassiopea.
They were unaccompanied, however, by the popular summons and proffered sceptre he had sanguinely and confidently anticipated.
And since his son is of an age too tender to wield the sceptre, the boy's mother does it in his name.
The sceptre of Solomon was paraded throughout the camp in solemn procession.
He now rose and held out his sceptre, and there was a great silence round the fairy ring.
By my halidom, churl, you shall either swallow my sceptre or die the death!
Of the drawings in it I need say nothing, and of the sistrum or sceptre only a few words.
A niddering who flies for his life at the first approach of danger is not fit to wield a sceptre in these lands.
Art thou not ashamed to be seen grasping this limber sapling, in preference to the sceptre of the pre-Adamite sultans?
Cast by your icy crown and sceptre, and let the sunlight of love fall softly on your heart.
Fly on, great Time, and on thy coming wings bear me my sceptre!
I succeeded a man of the most sublime genius that ever upheld the sceptre of France.
Gain the sceptre of Solomon, and I will agree to be your subject.
Near one man lay a golden crown and a sceptre, and a sword belt of gold.
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