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1. Quietude is the crown of life.
2. Barefooted, they guarded that crown.
3. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown.
4. To crown all, his poverty had returned.
5. This crown was made especially for the King.

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 Meanings and Examples of CROWN
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crown
 n.  ornamental circlet or head covering, made of gold with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  Thereupon an idea occurred to the attorney for the crown.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  They laid down the crown, and retained no aureole.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
4  He obstinately maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, those chatterers of the law, as he called them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
5  To crown all, his poverty had returned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
6  She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
7  Barefooted, they guarded that crown.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8  It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a nimbus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
9  The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters signified Laubespine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
10  The terraces which crown the peristyles of the theatres were bordered with spectators.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
11  The host had reckoned upon eleven days of confinement at a crown a day, but he had reckoned without his guest.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
12  Lend it to us, and go into your house again; there is a crown for the annoyance we have caused you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
13  At these words he threw me a crown, which I picked up, and he took the ladder.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
14  Anyone who had seen her sleeping might have said she was a young girl dreaming of the crown of flowers she was to wear on her brow at the next festival.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
15  Fortunately, a mendicant passed, who, coming up to Athos to ask charity, Athos offered him half a crown to accompany him where he was going.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The one who wants to wear a crown must bear the weight.
2  A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
3  The masonry at the crown of the arch is paler than on either curve.
4  This crown was made especially for the King.
5  Quietude is the crown of life.
6  Among the many diamonds in your crown is the way people look up to you for guidance and leadership.
7  But the official Miss America website stresses you performed all your duties in exemplary fashion before you gave up the crown.
8  When the witches told Macbeth he would be king, they failed to warn him he would lose his crown soon after his coronation.
9  He described how the prophet Samuel to anoint David with oil, crown him king of Israel.
10  Last year Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince pulverised Awamiyah, a rebellious town; Saudi forces shelled its 400-year-old neighbourhoods and erected siege walls to trap some 200 gunmen.
11  You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
12  The evening was crowned by her dazzling performance.
13  He was crowned champion after his fight in Atlanta.
14  That seems to be the message from the nation's movie critics, who have uniformly crowned this 3-D toy story the brilliant hybrid offspring of Pixar's best infused with South Park‘s irreverent humor.
15  The trees had long thin supple trunks and round compact crowns to withstand the winds.