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  • A star-crowned spire, 680 feet high, made it Europe ' s tallest hotel.

    Moscow Hotels Get Glitzy Rehabs, But Where Would Stalin Sleep? Daniel Michaels 2010

  • A star-crowned spire, 206 meters high, made it Europe ' s tallest hotel.

    A Revival for Two Stalin-Era Hotels 2010

  • Pulickel recognized variations of the star-crowned trees beneath which Fawn had awaited the arrival of the transport.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • The dresses worn by fairies -- theatrical, of course -- in those days would seem something like a fairy mother-hubbard now, at all events a home toilet of some sort, so very proper were they; but even so there was no provision made for handkerchiefs, no thought apparently that stage fairies might have colds in their star-crowned heads.

    Stage Confidences Clara Morris

  • The merry jingles rang on in challenge and answer, repeating from both sides of the pond, until they reached at last the wooded slopes and mighty bowlders of Old Squaw Mountain, a peak whose "star-crowned head" could be imagined rather than discerned against the horizon, near the distant shore from which the hunters had started.

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • The very pews and desks, the pillars of the loft and the star-crowned canopy of the pulpit, seemed in their dry and mouldy antiquity to give forth soporific dry accessions to that somnolent atmosphere, and the sun-rays, slanted over the heads of the worshippers, showed full of dust.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • Solitude, star-crowned, pacing the fields of England, has a dialogue with Seclusion.

    The Longest Journey 1924

  • The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!

    To One in Bedlam 1920

  • She needs no encomiast, star-crowned she stands, the glory of America, the admiration of the world.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

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