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

London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless.

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

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

Peace to the soul that serveth Him,     The monarch manger-born; There, ruler of unnumbered realms; 630     Here, throneless and forlorn.

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.