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And then out comes the real truth; and he dares to tell me to my face that my patent must be suppressed for the present, for fear of disgusting that rascally coward and faineant (naming the rival chief of his own clan), who has no better title to be a chieftain than I to be Emperor of China, and who is pleased to shelter his dastardly reluctance to come out, agreeable to his promise twenty times pledged, under a pretended jealousy of the Prince's partiality to me.— Waverley
While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity In these circumstances, it is idle to speculate as to the future.— Russia
They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.— Lucretia — Volume 05
I must make it easy for the Council to get rid of a faineant— Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
I take it as a kingdom, and I cannot be _roi faineant_, with a steward for _maire du palais_.— Kenelm Chillingly — Complete
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