"Crownless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meaning red, as we know by the illuminated books of the Middle Ages. Had she lived in Venice, that great school of color, two or three hundred years ago, in the days of Titian and Giorgione, its greatest masters, she would probably have sat upon a balcony with her locks drawn through a crownless broad-brimmed hat, and covered with dye, to remove some of their rich chestnut hue, and substitute a reddish tinge;—just as this lady is represented as doing in this Venetian book of costumes of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... head in the night that is coming. Those eyes have shut away the physical and the real, and through the mists of the future they are trying to read the great question of fate! Worcester is lost, and with it a kingdom: is he to be henceforth a crownless king and a hunted fugitive, or has the future its compensations? This is what the fixed and glassy eyes are saying to every beholder, and there is not one who does not answer the question with a mental response forced by that mute appeal ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... your gyves have bound Through centuries of toil; The bitter wailings of whose bondage sound From many a stranger-soil! Leave me but free, though the eternal sand Be all my kingdom now— Though the rude splendors of barbaric land But mock my crownless brow!" ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... "'Tis he," we said, "Come crownless and unheralded, The shepherd who will keep The flocks, will fold ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various |
