disenthrone

Example Sentences

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Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war, if war be best, or to regain Our own right lost.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

He had but to disenthrone her who for fifteen years, with true and tender love, had shared his existence.

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

There lie—twin monsters of enormous girth— Aloeus' sons, who 'gainst Olympus cast Their impious hands, and strove with daring vast To disenthrone the Thunderer.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

And, indeed, it was death we had come to disenthrone.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)