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...well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused to confess to anyone but King Charles II. Charles not only pardoned Blood but gave him back his estates which had been confiscated. Some historians think that Charles, who could always use a little ready cash, would have...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...
...evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some of us will continue to praise the moon, living and dying blessed lunatics, along with Orientals and other respectable conservatives...
Eight dignitaries of the Court and officers of Jugoslavia's fighting services carried the emblems of King Alexander's power, his sword, his sceptre, the orb and the Crown of Jugoslavia with which he was never crowned. Reason: Alexander wished to unify his troubled country first...
...quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near. The day wears away; the sun is setting in a receptive, motherly, western glow; in a culminative ecstasy of bliss, the Vagabond sits on the edge of a pool in the Common, watching the dying orb, and dabbling in the placid water with the tips of his toes; he is a child again, and quite, quite happy...