Word: queen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...best of their kind. The hesitations and accidents were unusually few, and, except the decapitation of a war-steed, at which critical moment the presence of mind of Sir Guy saved the day, no serious casualty occurred. Mr. Urquhart made a very pretty girl, and Mr. Wright an imposing queen. Darnley's part was played gracefully and well, and that of the rollicking King of the French admirably taken; and in fact, all did so well that to particularize would be unjust. The airs were a little old; but, altogether, Seventy-nine may congratulate themselves on having successfully presented...
DEAR HOSEA, - Here I am, in this Queen City of New England, and boarding in one of the most select parts of Boston (the South End), with a most affable lady, of means and refinement, whose name is Smith...
...Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers for many miles around sent their grists there after harvest-time. Perhaps we think of one autumn morning a hundred years back, just on the eve of the great Revolution, while...
...Queen of Old England...
Stands my very queen...