trone
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trone
1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Anglo-French ≪ Latin trūtina < Greek trȳtánē balance, scales
Example Sentences
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As grief from out my soul shall fly, Just comin' from de trone; I'll shout salvation when I die, Good news, O, good news!
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Sere kyng in trone, Here comyth anone By strete and stone Kynges thre.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
Than seyde he thus, `Almighty Iove in trone, That wost of al this thing the soothfastnesse, 1080 Rewe on my sorwe, or do me deye sone, Or bring Criseyde and me fro this distresse.'
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Oh, how mistaken was the poet, who wrote, `Et du trone au cerenell le passage est terrible!'
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
De angels march all roun' de trone, De angels march all roun' de trone, De angels march all roun' de trone, I can't stay behin'.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
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