THRONE

Related Subjects: Crown, Kings

1. And in mercy shall the throne be established.—Bible, Isaiah 16:5
   

2. The blood of beauty, wealth, and power—the heart-blood of a Queen,
   The noblest of the Stuart race—the fairest earth has seen—
   Lapped by a dog! Go think of it in silence and alone!
   Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne.—H. G. BELL, Mary, Queen of Scots
   

3. The legs of the throne are the plough and the oar, the anvil and the sewing-machine.—EMERSON, Journals
   

4. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
   

5. The throne is but a piece of gilded wood covered with velvet.—NAPOLEON
   

6. A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.—WILLIAM PITT
   

7. A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King