sceptre in English

noun
1
an ornamented staff carried by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereignty.
In her left hand she carries the sceptre of state; in her right the orb.

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1. Well, the sceptre.

2. 7 Barbarossa's own depiction shows imperial regalia of orb and sceptre.

3. Particularly, the Caduceus is the sceptre of Hermes, the god of alchemy.

4. 1 The queen's regalia at her coronation included her crown and sceptre.

5. The town of Sceptre provides a gateway for tourism activities into the Great Sand Hills.

6. The Pharaoh's Sceptre and the Czarina's staff, the Golden Eagle Box, and the Star of Arabia!

7. English words for Baculum include staff, baculus, scepter, cane, walking-stick, cudgel, pikestaff, thrashel, sceptre and augural staff

8. The scepter with the longest history seems to be the heqa-sceptre, sometimes described as the shepherd's crook.

9. In this park, opposite the Royal Castle, is where Tintin finds Professor Alembicks briefcase in the beginning of "King Ottokar's Sceptre"

10. Brahma, a major god of Hinduism, shown holding a rosary (or sceptre), an alms bowl, a bow, and the Rigveda, the oldest and foremost collection of ancient Hindu scriptures.

11. Seven who hold the sceptre shall perish, one of them being canonised. The bellies of mothers shall be cut open, and babies will be born prematurely.

12. It Blesseth him that gives and him that takes: Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,

13. Edward was buried in the shirt, coif and gloves from his coronation, and his effigy depicts him as king, holding a sceptre and orb, and wearing a strawberry-leaf crown.

14. King Ottokar's Sceptre: in the book, the true professor smokes while the impostor does not; for the episode, this is reversed, and Tintin also learns of the twin Alembicks much earlier in the episode than the book

15. ) In fact, the stories published before the war had been unequivocally critical of fascism; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a thinly-veiled allegory of the Anschluss , Germany's takeover of Austria.

16. King Ottokar's Sceptre: In the book, the true professor smokes while the impostor does not; this is reversed for the TV episode, and Tintin also learns of the twin Alembicks much earlier in the episode than in the book

17. Argent Defender, Baton of Flame, Baton of Royal Stature, Bronze Statue of Bathezid, Burnished Wooden Staff, Burnt Wood Staff, Chokidai Hide Spaulders, Courier's Potion, Crypt Master's Conjuring Stone, Di'zok Begirding, Di'zok Escape Staff, Di'zok Sceptre of Authority, Di'zok Wristsnapper, Earring of Blazing Energy, Earring of Purity, Earring of

18. The most satisfactory translation is this: "For it (the sword) has been proved (viz., on others), and what if this Contemning rod shall be no more?" i.e., the power of the sword of Babylon has already been proved; and the sceptre of Judah, which despises it, shall be clean swept away

19. A German porcelain armorial dinner plate from the Grand Duke Paul Petrovich Service blue sceptre mark of the Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin, circa 1778 Shaped circular, the centre painted and gilded with the Accolled coat of arms held by an Imperial double-headed eagle, with gilt rim, marked under base 9 5/8 in

20. With titles blown from Adulation? Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream, That play'st so subtly with a king's repose; I am a king that find thee, and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,

21. But Grace was so frightened, and so pledge-bound, that no Adjuration stopped her.: I would have been prepared for it in any kind of Adjuration, but I was not prepared for what I heard.: For instance, in the Adjuration of Achilles by the staff or sceptre.: This time it was not merely an Adjuration, it was a command.: I asked the spirit some questions, and then pronounced the Adjuration.