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- proper noun A
title given toqueens .
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Examples
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Ostensive, a handmaiden to her future queen has the true burden of being there for Cleopatra and advising her as her future Queen struggles through the Roman political maze.
Hand of Isis-Jo Graham « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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A few days afterwards the King and Queen came down to Portsmouth, and went on board the _Queen Charlotte_, to present the old Admiral -- for he was then seventy years of age -- with a diamond-hilted sword, and to hang
Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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VICTORIA R. [Footnote 3: A list of French books which the Queen was proposing to read.] [PAGEHEADING: STATE OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE] _Queen Victoria to Sir Robert Peel.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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[Footnote 38: The first act of the _Vor-Parlament_, a body which had existed temporarily at Frankfort, to pave the way for the National Assembly of a Consolidated Germany, had been to treat Schleswig, theretofore part of the Danish dominions, as absorbed in the German Confederation, and Lord Palmerston's objections to this proceeding had been treated by the Queen in a letter of 19th August as inconsistent with his attitude towards Austria.] [Pageheading: PRUSSIA AND GERMANY] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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QUEEN - Ashley Chism and Jacob Cass plan to be married July 25, 2009, at Guadalupe Christian Church Camp in Queen, N.M. The bride-elect is the daughter of M.tt and Jodie Chism of Carlsbad.
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(_The Queen remains clasping her hands to her temples, while _De Bourbon_ walks hastily up and down; after a long pause the _Queen_ speaks.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various
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The phrase was a favourite one of King Leopold's, from whom the Queen had adopted it.] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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Clarendon, the Queen observed that its despatch was an important and advantageous fact, as it both committed the Czar personally, and enabled her to state certain truths to him, as well as to explain privately the views which guided her own and her Ministers 'conduct.] [Pageheading: LORD STRATFORD'S PROPOSAL] _Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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Palmerston had suggested to the Queen that etiquette would not be violated by inviting him to a Court Ball.] [Pageheading: AFFAIRS IN FRANCE] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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The Queen now continued the same allowances as they had received from the late King.] [Pageheading: DANIEL O'CONNELL] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
EmmaSmith commented on the word Queen
The love the word "Queen" and I wish I was a Queen. Do u wish u were?
January 25, 2011