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Example sentences for "queens"

Lexicographically close words:
queened; queening; queenless; queenliness; queenly; queenship; queer; queered; queerer; queerest
  1. Perhaps the statues are enchanted queens and princes, for there seems to be a presence in each one.

  2. There were queens whose thrones were all one driven pearl, and warriors whose swords were a flash of sunbeams.

  3. Few queens of England have been happy; and the kings themselves in that land have not had much to make them so.

  4. I have seen successively two of my relatives and now my grand-daughter become Queens of Spain.

  5. Illustration: Infanta Maria Theresa wife of Louis XIV] We have had few queens in France who have been perfectly happy.

  6. Hearing these words, the father, in despair, sat down on a stone at a little distance and waited until some retainer of the two queens or some servant-woman might pass who would give him news of his son.

  7. The maids of honor of the two queens were again in their separate camps on either side of the fireplace, in which glowed a monstrous fire.

  8. Dayelle colored as her mistress looked at her, asking for the applause that even queens demand from their inferiors if there are no other spectators.

  9. Two neighboring queens will soon be at war with each other.

  10. The cardinal and the duke withdrew, leaving the two queens and the king alone together.

  11. She pretended it was the custom of the kings and queens of France.

  12. If the queens want their surcoats, they must send for them.

  13. Lewiston, the Scotch captain, listened to this silence, watching the son of the furrier and the two queens with soldierly curiosity.

  14. The two Lorrain princes were there alone, standing before the magnificent fireplace, which backs against that in the /salle des gardes/ around which the ladies of the two queens were grouped.

  15. The queens of France, on becoming widows, were required to remain in the king's chamber forty days without other light than that of wax tapers; they did not leave the room until after the burial of the king.

  16. I should like, with great simplicity, to say to these eminent persons that I value the honour of being the Editor of Charles Greville's Journals infinitely more than any distinction that Queens or Duchesses could bestow on me.

  17. Lady Lesbia's bedroom was the State chamber, which had been occupied by kings and queens in days of yore.

  18. I shall tell her that Lesbia can be one of the queens of society without having strawberry leaves on her coach panels, and that my dear friend Horace Smithson is a much better match than a seedy duke.

  19. The butterflies have taken the places of the queens of fashion and beauty of eighteen centuries ago, and the lizards sun themselves in the sacred seat of the Emperor.

  20. They saw a plain figure dressed in a pink silk of the kind that is tempered by the word "foulard," and a plain face that wore a look of love of life that the queens envied.

  21. At fifty tables sat princes and queens clad in all the silks and gems of the world.

  22. One of the most dreaded duties that falls almost invariably to the lot of queens is having to reign over adopted countries while exiled from their own.

  23. Two brethren and a father, eight kings my grief shall slay; And the hearts of queens shall be broken, and their eyes shall loathe the day.

  24. All hail, ye Lords of God-home, and ye Queens of the House of Gold!

  25. For the force of the Queens Statute extends only to wandring Players, and not to such as are the King or Queen's Servants, and establisht in settled Houses by Royal Authority.

  26. Was the fading web of rose and white All macerated by the kisses of old As rare French queens with perfume?

  27. Benvenuto Cellini, the magnificent gilt bronze statues of the Kings and Queens of Spain in the Church, by Pompeio Leoni, and the decorations of the Library, principally by Pelegrino Tibaldi.

  28. Early the next morning move the hive back to its former position, when one of the Queens will have been deposed.

  29. Where a necessity for swarming has been in any way superseded, there are either no royal cells constructed, or the young queens meet with premature destruction.

  30. The next day two young Queens were ejected; one of them torn from its cell, not having attained its full growth.

  31. Queens are matured; for it is to be remembered that on the occasion of a first swarm it is always the old Queen that accompanies it.

  32. No point has been better established, than the fact recorded by Huber, as to the destruction of the supernumerary young Queens by their combating together; the sovereignty remaining with the single survivor.

  33. In order," says Huber, "that at no time there may be a plurality of females in a hive, Nature has inspired Queens with an innate inveteracy against one another.

  34. A different kind of instinct appears to direct the bees than is observable at the time of the original issue; for the young Queens will depart in weather that would be thought unfavorable for the issuing of an old one.

  35. With the exception of the Philadelphians, perhaps, we as a people will not stand on the question of ancestry, and shall be more inclined to see how she "queens it.

  36. The Queens and the "princes of Noph" reposed in smaller pyramids beside the Kings.

  37. The Queens of Love pass on to "the mitigated wo department," and I hope you will confess they have put on their sorrow with grace and taste.

  38. I thought Queens could always do as they like," objected Molly, as they took her two hands and made her jump down from the throne without finding out whether she wished to come or not.

  39. She is a real Queen," he said; "and real Queens must be obeyed.

  40. Real Queens do just as they like; it is only Kings who do as they are told.

  41. Now kings and queens poor sheep cotes have, And mate with everybody; The honest now may play the knave, And wise men play the noddy.

  42. The Cardinal was no longer the dissolute prelate of other days, the adorer of two queens of France, the slave of Madame de Chevreuse, the lover of Marion de l'Orme.

  43. Unless there are to be two queens of France, you must go.

  44. Thus as they rode they heard by them a great horse grimly neigh, and then they were ware of a sleeping knight that lay all armed under an apple tree; anon as these queens looked on his face they knew that it was Sir Launcelot.

  45. They stood by the buses making their men comfortable, and when the first buses were filled they sat in the open street on top of them, patiently waiting, as calm and smiling as circus queens on their gilt chariots.

  46. Diana appropriated the crown jewels, and appeared at all the public ceremonies decked in the hitherto sacred regalia of the queens of France.

  47. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept.

  48. It was not at all unusual for its guest-rooms to be occupied by Queens and Princesses.

  49. When one sees the specimens that are left, it does not seem surprising that when kings and queens went anywhere in the Middle Ages they went, if possible, by water.

  50. We cannot trust the tiring-women in times like these, but he may be able to give the letters into the hands of the Queens themselves.

  51. One or two discontented people did indeed whisper that as the constitution of Pigmyland had always been a pure despotism, Ophelia only meant to say that she should rule as other Pigmy kings and queens had ruled before her.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "queens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.