apanage

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King Johann, seeing the Tyrol gone in this manner, gloomed terribly upon his Crown-Prince; flung him aside as a Nullity, "Go to Moravia, out of sight, on an apanage, you; be Crown-Prince no longer!"

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  • Meanwhile he had his own apanage, "Landgraf" by rank he too; and had troubles enough with that of itself. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Produced, among others, one Jobst his successor in the apanage or Margrafdom; who, as JOBST, or Jodocus, OF MAHREN, made some noise for himself in the next generation, and will turn up again in reference to Brandenburg in this History As for Margaret Pouch-mouth, she, with her new Husband as with her old, continued to have troubles, pretty much as the sparks fly upwards. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • But the understood practice was not to divide farther; Baireuth by itself, Anspach by itself (or still luckier if one hand could get hold of both),--and especially Brandenburg by itself, uncut by any apanage: this, I observe, was the received practice. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • "D'you think she'll remain your apanage now?" he asked, with a hint of smiling sarcasm that could not hurt her. —  In the Wilderness
  • "My apanage?" —  In the Wilderness
 

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