'scepter' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a staff or rod that is held by a monarch as a symbol of authority. For example, "The Emperor held a scepter to signify his power over the kingdom."
The quartet began singing together at high school functions in Passaic, and Florence Greenberg, the mother of one of their classmates, signed them to her own small Tiara label and later to her more ambitious Scepter Records (for which Dionne Warwick also recorded).
A Jamaican flag flutters from a car antenna, and soccer rules the fields over which Sandy Koufax once waved his scepter.
As an additional promotion, the producers of "[title of show]" have announced the "$2,501.50 Extrava[tos] VIP Luxury premium ticket" which, according to the press release, includes the following perks: a tiara and scepter, opera glasses, and the unprecedented option to have an NYU student attend [title of show] in your place and then describe the experience to the ticket-buyer.
If you're planning to attend any of those events, Martin's publisher, Bantam, would like you to know a few ground rules in advance: Martin will not pose for fan photographs; he will not give personalized inscriptions; and, just in case you were thinking of having your broadsword or scepter autographed, he will only sign items for sale in the store.
"The saloon is their place; the toddy stick their scepter".
She thought of an illustration for the Richest Babies piece — "Giant baby with a crown on its head, and a scepter.
We're living in an age of political dramas, many of which celebrate the dream of lifting the scepter, the thrill of a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.
"He Took Lightning from the Sky and the Scepter from the Tyrant's Hand" was the (originally Latin) inscription that a French poet would later offer, conclusively.
The wheel-like space station — and, later, the scepter-like Jupiter-bound craft — float through space like a dancer leaping in extreme slow motion, the incidental beauty of utilitarian flight proving, for him, indistinguishable from more calculated aesthetic delights.
A scepter-wielding, devilish African personage presides in the middle; he is flanked by other, equally daunting African faces — the palace guard.
The wheel-like space station and, later, the scepter-like Jupiter-bound craft float through space like a dancer leaping in extreme slow motion, the incidental beauty of utilitarian flight proving, for him, indistinguishable from more calculated aesthetic delights.
