9 sentences with 'crown'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crown and other words derived from it.
• « His hat brim was stuck to the crown because of the wind, and he was grinning mischievously. There's no road! »
• « The shape of the hat's crown and the curve of the brim should express the personality of the wearer. »
• « The wind whipped the brim of my hat to the crown, I clung to the saddle and shouted a thousand times "Ya-ju!", "Yi-ja!" or, simply, "Giddyup, Josh!" »
• « The games sought, in the words of one Greek poet, "either the crown of victory or death" (admittedly, that poet indulged in some hyperbole, since there is no evidence that defeated athletes actually committed suicide). »
• « Charlemagne established a group of officials who travelled throughout the empire inspecting the counties to ensure loyalty to the crown. »
• « All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited. »
• « The King of England, Edward III, was next in line, but powerful members of the French nobility rejected his claim and instead pledged to give the crown to a French nobleman from the royal line named Philip VI. »
• « The French crown introduced new taxes, such as the Gabelle (a salt tax) and the Taille (a household tax), which further burdened the commoners. »
• « The major effort of the new royal officials (despised by the old nobility as "new men") was to expand the reach of the crown. »