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  • What drives this is around the time of Eleanor Roosevelt and the ability of mass media to give us next day newsreels of her handing out Easter eggs to unfortunate Negro children....advertisers realized there was a "royalistic hunger" in women to have their own American queen.

    Michelle Obama just got more popular than Barack. Ann Althouse 2009

  • If the Democrats select her in this royalistic march of inevitability, we'll see the party steered onto the rocks again by the old farts who seem to be running everything these days.

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • These early pictures seldom show the religious feeling that afterwards slowly worked its way through the Stuart days (though, perhaps, disguised under royalistic symbolism), until in the reign of Queen Anne it became more or less a fashion, in pictorial needle-craft.

    Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

  • This now revered text was then the subject of ardent criticism; famous patriots like Patrick Henry had detected in it something royalistic, which has long ceased to be apparent, and were violent in their denunciation of this instrument of tyranny.

    Major L'Enfant and the Federal City. II. II 1916

  • Ages of ingrained royalistic principles were shocked and shattered by the enormity of the thing the man she loved had asked of her, and yet cold reason told her that it was the only way.

    The Mad King 1914

  • Ages of ingrained royalistic principles were shocked and shattered by the enormity of the thing the man she loved had asked of her, and yet cold reason told her that it was the only way.

    The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • One or two cockades had been roughly torn and thrown into the mud, and the wearer unpleasantly ill-used if he persisted in any royalistic demonstration.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • The integrity of some of his royalistic poems is doubtful; but he was not given the benefit of the doubt by the Long Parliament, which ejected the panegyrist of young Prince Charles from the vicarage of Dean Prior, and installed in his place the venerable John Syms, a gentleman with pronounced Cromwellian views.

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

  • With his royalistic tendencies he may not have breathed quite freely in the atmosphere of the Commonwealth, and no doubt many tribulations fell to his lot, but among them was not poverty.

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

  • In order that the citizens might feel the proper horror, trade-union leaders, anarchists and even a few royalistic scare-crows were arrested; at the same time the sympathy and devotion of the government for its people manifested itself in the reign of the military terror in the strike regions.

    Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904

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