In this case, he was an impoverished gentleman with a title from my own sceptered homeland.

There wasn't a knight in either team who wasn't a sceptered sovereign.

Every now and then you're reminded what a teensy little sceptered isle Britain is.

The century ends Now behold the diadome Of this sceptered isle!

It also came from the waters surrounding these sceptered isles – not some filthy breeding pond in Indonesia.

To Shakespeare and summer tourists, England is the green and pleasant "sceptered isle."

The professor pointed out the deliberately hyperbolic first four lines ("Ah, what avails the sceptered race!

It seems to me then that I would rather be a hero of a French duel than a crowned and sceptered monarch.

But then there’s no surer way to convince British Tories that they and their sceptered isle are special.

The 200 palm trees flown in from Spain to make Vietnam of this sceptered isle have been returned to peacetime.

The foodie pow-wow returns to Western Australia's sceptered coast from November 22-24 this year.

But Azhriaz reached out, and with a laugh she plucked the tiny chameleon from Kheshmet's sceptered staff.

The Sceptered Isle.

A sceptered Isle!'

This Sceptered Isle (BBC)

Can you believe a Seeing came to you and to me about the fate of this sceptered isle that did not come to Aleneil and Denoriel?

It was major news, and even Britain, that basketball haven, was kept up late with the BBC televising the game live back to that sceptered isle.

A Sequel to the Sequel Stay tuned to find out if the Sceptered Isle is still above sea level at the conclusion, on Feb. 6.

Visions of that blue-and-gold E.U. flag smothering this sceptered isle and its vestigial grit loomed before dissipating: it's all complete nonsense, of course.

But he is the great hope of the United Kingdom, and the eyes of this sceptered isle will be upon Murray this afternoon when he faces Lopez.

Whatever the reason, viewed from here the inauguration on Friday of the Channel Tunnel linking Shakespeare's "sceptered isle" to mainland Europe is seen as mainly a British affair.

He is at work on the third and fourth books of a six-volume "History of England," which aims to tell the whole story of the sceptered isle, from prehistory to the present.

And the most remarkable thing of all is that this meal, this sceptered dish, this Full English bears no relation at all to what most people in England eat for breakfast.

Martin Wolf, the magisterial Financial Times commentator, noted that the combined assets of Britain's Big Five banks are four times the Sceptered Isle's GDP.