sovran

How to use sovran in a sentence

• It displeases me to think it possible that a subject should ever become a sovran.

  The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 | Various

• Some are making love, a sovran means of killing time, whether one be born that day or twenty years ago.

  The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre

• Just as the stolen potato is sovran for rheumatism, so "rue stolen thriveth the best."

  Storyology | Benjamin Taylor

• It does upset one's ideas and unsettle one's principles when sovran woman has nothing for one but bonnet-pins.

  Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O | Various

• Fairest of gems he bore with him over the beaker-of-waves, sovran strong: under shield he died.

  Beowulf | Anonymous