1. The scepter is the king's badge of office.

2. A scepter is one of the attributes of a king.

3. And she touched the top of my head with the scepter and Was gone.

4. But why carry a baton for sentiment when it should be a scepter?

5. There was a time when we waved our scepters and calmed the storms.

6. This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle.

7. Many Irish Americans understandably don't feel this way, of course, and Hispanics and other minorities may regard the sceptered isle with vast difference.