Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her, and that princess was too quick a discerner, and rewarder of merit, to suffer that of Shakespear to be neglected.

The young Princess was a bonnie, precocious little girl.

Princesses, again, were favorite heroines, for various reasons, one of which was the tradition concerning the custom called Svayamvara or "Maiden's Choice"a princess being "permitted," after a tournament, to "choose" the victor.

Princess, are these the King's plans for your future? WILHELMINE (trembling in excitement).

The princess is already a mother, but, unfortunately, only of a daughter.

The Princess, a Medley (1847), a long poem of over three thousand lines of blank verse, is Tennyson's answer to the question of woman's rights and woman's sphere, which was then, as in our own day, strongly agitating the public mind.

Now the princess and this prince are lover and mistress; she is distracted at home, and he in the cage; she sent him a love-letter by your hands; the spies instantly conveyed intelligence

The little princess, of whom such an enchanting picture is given in this poem, is an imaginary figure.

"An Egyptian Princess" is his first important novel, written during his illness, and published in 1864.

10 Princess of the four cities, head of the sea, heaven (is thy) canopy.

The armor of Libussa is still shown at Vienna, and the guide calls attention to the long-peaked toes of steel, with which, he avers, the tender Princess was wont to pierce the hearts of her opponents, while careering through the battle.

Princesses like the Berenice, and the Drusilla, and the Salome, and the Herodias of the sacred historians were in this age a familiar spectacle; but none of them were so wicked as two at least of Claudius's wives.

Yolanda was rich, red wine, hot and strong; the princess was cold, clear water.

"Why are we mortal enemies; my dear Princess?" "Because I am a Russian and you are a Pole," she replied.

10 Princess of the four cities, head of the sea, heaven (is thy) canopy.

The queen, though she hated Imogen, yet wished her to marry a son of her own by a former husband (she also having been twice married): for by this means she hoped upon the death of Cymbeline to place the crown of Britain upon the head of her son Cloten; for she knew that, if the king's sons were not found, the princess Imogen must be the king's heir.

The Princess is a better Queen than wife, a better woman than either.

She laughed at the suggestion, and said: 'Oh, no, no, the princess is a very proud person and very exclusive.

So well indeed did she perform her self-imposed part, that not only Louis himself, but the whole Court were thoroughly deceived by the stratagem; and meanwhile the unsuspecting Princess became the victim of the dissembling Queen and her capricious and heartless suitor.[107]

Yolanda was a girl; the princess was a woman.

Hugdietrich, having thus effected an entrance into the princess's tower as embroidery teacher, soon managed to quiet Hildburg's alarm when she discovered that the pretended princess was a suitor in disguise, and wooed her so successfully that she not only allowed him to take up his abode in the tower, but also consented to a secret union.

PRINCESS. Are not the emotions tenderly and delicately phrased!

Princess, is this your farewellwhile I prepare to meet death or despair? WILHELMINE.

They were docile people, and they soon found out that the young princess was as absolute a despot in character as ever terrorized Rome or ruled the Russias.

The affair, however, was concluded; and after Napoleon's divorce from Josephine, in 1810, the Austrian princess became empress of the French.