| I have wealth and possessions and respect as great as if I were a sceptred King. |
| Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle. |
| This great office had twice been ably filled by women, women as aptly fitted for it as some of the sceptred queens of history. |
| Fiends robed and sceptred, once reigned over fiends clothed in skins and armed with broadsword and battle axe. |
| The dead kings are crowned once more, and from the shadows of the past emerge the queens, jeweled and sceptred as of yore. |
| This real England, your unreal home, turns us all into maundering John of Gaunts, sighing over sceptred isles, demi-paradises, other Edens. |
