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- noun Plural form of
king . - noun poker slang A pair of
kings .
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Examples
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And if he has been training kings for Samavia all these centuries -- they may have been poor and nobody may have known about them, but they've been _kings_.
The Lost Prince Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Wisdom and might are His; and He changes the times and the seasons, and He removeth kings and setteth up kings (Dan. ii.
Articles 19-27. Twenty-Seven Articles Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate 1909
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The term kings and kingdoms are used interchangeably in Daniel.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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Hence the age of the kings is the age of the prophets.
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The luxuries most middle-class Americans can access through this system surpass the wildest dreams of kings from the past: amazing amounts of food, cars, air-conditioning, etc.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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In the front of the crowd were several Eldorado and Bonanza kings from the Upper
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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Johnson thus operates in that extended period of English (and American) history when the divine right of kings is not yet quite exhausted or discredited but when the concept of “the rights of man” has yet to be fully born.
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For those who believe in kings, Progressive Democracy, additional gun control legislation, and other such folly – serious discussion only comes down to the amount of legal stealing the government can do from the public (taxes). ib
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The luxuries most middle-class Americans can access through this system surpass the wildest dreams of kings from the past: amazing amounts of food, cars, air-conditioning, etc.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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The luxuries most middle-class Americans can access through this system surpass the wildest dreams of kings from the past: amazing amounts of food, cars, air-conditioning, etc.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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