throneless
- a word derived from throne.
Example Sentences
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It was only natural, then, for the more flighty Margaret, throneless and fancy-free, to go in search of company less starchy and more glamorous.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2017
Two sailing vessels last week nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country.
From Time Magazine Archive
An hour later, the plane landed at Tangier, where Ben Moulay Arafa will live at French expense in a hastily rehabilitated villa which once belonged to another throneless Sultan of Morocco.
From Time Magazine Archive
During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways.
From Time Magazine Archive
He, the hater of despotism, the abhorer of monarchy, the champion of the rights of man, the republican, accepting death to save the life of a deposed tyrant—of a throneless king!
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Ingersoll, Robert Green
