Theſoueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine She pownded ſmall, and did in peeces bruze, And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, Into his wound the iuyce thereof did ſcruze[…]
Homer ofMoly andNepenthe singes: Moly, the gods mostsoveraigne hearbe divine. Nepenth Hellen's drink, which gladnes brings,— Hart's greife repells, and doth ye witts refine.
1681,John Dryden,The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery.[…], London:[…] Richard Tonson andJacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,(please specify the page number):
asovereign remedy
1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
Such asovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
1900, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume 3, page297:
In Spain people still bathe in the sea or roll naked in the dew of the meadows on St. John’s Eve, believing that this is asovereign preservative against diseases of the skin.
You're the keeper of the castle So be a father to your children The provider of all their daily needs Like asovereign Lord protector Be their destiny's director And they'll do well to follow where you lead.
The petty ſtreames that paie a dailiedet To their ſaltſoveraigne with their freſhfalshaſt, Adde to his flowe, but alter not histaſt.
1667,John Milton, “Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines242-249:
Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven?, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since hee Who now isSovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : fardest from him is best Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream Above his equals.[…]
2019 March 29, Ashley Powers, “How Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1 Billion From the Government They Disavow”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
A loose network of perhaps tens of thousands of far-right antigovernment extremists,sovereigns share certain conspiratorial beliefs and, sometimes, a desire to profit off a government whose legitimacy they deny.
No, someone who wears loads ofsovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.
2011 July 1, Caroline Davies, “Harrods 'ladies' code' drives out sales assistant”, inThe Guardian[3]:
No visible tattoos,sovereigns, mismatched jewellery, scrunchies, large clips or hoop earrings.
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