Crowning moments

Usage examples of coronations.

The marriages, the funerals, the coronations, the obstetrics of this amazing breed of idols were matters of almost universal worship.

Royal funerals, marriages, christenings, coronations, and jubilees interrupted traffic and stimulated trade everywhere.

The axe was shouting or singing in the sort of joy displayed at coronations and for sudden windfalls.

Too often the prospect resembles the key to one of those large pictures of coronations, royal weddings, parliaments, conferences, and gatherings so popular in Victorian times, in which, instead of a face, each figure bears a neat oval with its index number legibly inscribed.