Grace McCleen's The Professor of Poetry (Sceptre) is a book about writing and love.
Today, its sceptre and crown have fallen down and, in a phase of cynical destruction masquerading as "development", Mumbai has become a metaphor for urban blight.
It is unclear whether he will pick up his father's hopeful sceptre.
She hid behind the pampas grass or in the potting shed, the princess of the place, in a grown-up's silk jellabah with a flowering artichoke for her sceptre, listening for the squeak of the gate.
Ranged across the bottom are hundreds of small, monkish figures in robes and bearing gifts: a lotus here, a fan there, a sceptre, a letter, beads, scrolls or round pots of incense.For months rumours about this work had been as much about its logistics as its content.
Clips of Mr Covington at home add colour and context to the fictionalised play: he strums a guitar, poses in a crown with a sceptre, muses on God and love, and delivers monologues to the camera about how he has "made something out of nothing".
His hair turns white and his sceptre becomes a cane.
Probably the most ubiquitous of all is the being known as Bolon Tzacab (first called God K by archaeologists), a deity with a baroquely branching nose who is thought to have functioned as a god of royal descent; he is often held as a kind of sceptre in rulers' hands.
Only limited prosperity returned to the city, and a decorated bone sceptre of the Egyptian king Ḥtp-ib-Re Ḥtp-ib-Re Ḥtp-ib-Re) indicates reigned relations with Egypt.
Riding in a chariot festooned with laurel, the victorious general (triumphator) wore the royal purple and gold tunic and toga, holding a laurel branch in his right hand and an ivory sceptre in his left.
Design reached magnificent heights of Gothic splendour, seen in the masse d'or ("sceptre of gold"), mouton d'or ("Paschal Lamb"), ange d'or ("angel of gold"), and franc d'or (franc ["free"], a term first applied to a coin of John II, minted in 1360 to commemorate his ransom from the English).
