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Gilberte to discrown it of its chocolate battlements and to hew down the steep brown slopes of its ramparts, baked in the oven like the bastions of the palace of Darius.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Should the rebellion succeed, as he professes to believe it will, his instrument and accomplice, Maximilian, will be discarded with as little ceremony as the first Napoleon discarded some of the puppet kings whom he saw proper to crown and discrown according to the exigency of his occasions.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

Perhaps you think that a small sovereign people, fresh from two triumphant wars, ought to discrown itself before sunrise; because the nephew of a neighbouring Emperor has been shot by his own subjects.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905

Go forth to discrown king and captain and disinherit the creed;

0 764. The Reed by Henry Bernard Carpenter. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

I will discrown thee and give thy body to the tormentors, and set thy soul loose to follow her whom thou hast slain. '

The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Shakespeare, in Johnson's phrase, lost the world for a quibble and was content to lose it, so does Mr. Meredith discrown himself of the sovereignty of contemporary romance to put on the cap and bells of the professional wit.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

His son always continued to say this, but Franklin himself came to see that he who discrowns kings may be greater than kings, and that it became the duty of a people to discrown tyrannical kings, and to make a king of the popular will.

True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race.

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855

It was universally suspected that Henry meant to destroy and discrown the Habsburgs, and it lay not in the schemes of

Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845

It was universally suspected that Henry meant to destroy and discrown the Habsburgs, and it lay not in the schemes of

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845