Princesses
['prɪnsɪs]
Examples
- But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And what good could his wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Assyrian princesses (a daughter of Esarhaddon, _e. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He treated the Persian princesses with the utmost civility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No person dined with the queen but the two princesses royal, the eldest sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The places of the outer world and the temples of the therns had been robbed of their princesses and goddesses that the blacks might have their slaves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was brought up, from my earliest remembrance--like some of the princesses in the fairy stories, only I was not charming--by my godmother. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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