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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unthrone .
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Examples
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Discretion had kept Rao alive and discretion had enabled him to preserve his loyalty to the unthroned Rajah of the house of Wodeyar while still serving the Tippoo.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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I scraped the skies and cut the black illimitable far out beyond the orbit of Uranus, and I reached the climax of my triumphant flight with a hyperbole that eclipsed Goldsmith's metaphor, unthroned the foe, and left him stunned upon the field.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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Napoleon the Great, uncrowned, unthroned, and stunned by the dreadful shock that annihilated the Grand Army and the Old Guard, "wandered aimlessly about on the lost field," in the gloom that palled a fallen empire, as Hugo describes him, "the somnambulist of a vast, shattered dream."
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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The master of men and emergencies was unthroned for one time in life.
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There is something ludicrous and forlorn in the stiffness of the group -- something even pathetic, when we think how Napoleon gazed seaward from another island, no longer on horseback, no longer laurel-crowned, an unthroned, unseated conqueror, on S. Helena.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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There is something ludicrous and forlorn in the stiffness of the group -- something even pathetic, when we think how Napoleon gazed seaward from another island, no longer on horseback, no longer laurel-crowned, an unthroned, unseated conqueror, on S. Helena.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Strange, that this house should have been the death-place of the unthroned heiress of England, and, forty years afterwards, of the dethroned crafty old French king, Louis Philippe.
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men Eliezer Edwards 1853
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She was unthroned, and like an uncrowned queen she sighed over the remembrance of her former royalty.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828
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There is ice at both poles, north and south -- all extremes are the same -- misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only, to the emperor and the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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"There is ice at both poles, north and south -- all extremes are the same -- misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only, -- to the emperor and the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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