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- noun Plural form of
monarch .
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Examples
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David Starkey's study of England's monarchs is readable and rigorous, says Charles Spencer
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review Charles Spencer 2010
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Only monarchs from a long, prosperous, royal bloodline can be guaranteed to be heterosexual.
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But Montaigne sees it as a sign of a “sort of lack of confidence in monarchs, a sign of not being sure of their position, to strive to make themselves respected and glorious through excessive expenditure.”
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Is about to discover that battling evil monarchs is child's play compared to mortal combat with a Hiver (see below).
A Hat Full of Sky: Summary and book reviews of A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett. 2004
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Page 4 pomp which has conducted French kings to their imperial sleep, and has made their capital a vast lettered monument to its one great departed, -- nor in the drum-beat, and cathedral service, and royal guard, which have escorted English monarchs from the palace to the
Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist 1865
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It said Mbeki's power to pardon came from the Constitution, in a section with its roots in powers traditionally vested in English monarchs.
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Among those who attended in the train of the monarchs was a favorite page of the queen, named Ruyz de Alarcon.
The Alhambra 2002
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Among those who attended in the train of the monarchs was a favorite page of the queen, named Ruyz de Alarcon.
The Alhambra 2002
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For convenience, certain citizens are made executors of the popular will, and are called monarchs, magistrates, or representatives, according to the form of the government.
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They looked with impatience and indignation at the crowd of Dutch officers and civilians, whom William had brought over with him; while the cold and ungracious manner of the king contrasted, most unfavourably, with the bearing to which they had been accustomed in English monarchs.
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