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  • "If his princeship is a little worse splintered than the others, why, so much the better.

    Patsy 1887

  • He sold out his own siblings for some Turkish Delight and a promise of princeship.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • He sold out his own siblings for some Turkish Delight and a promise of princeship.

    Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009

  • Not being able to evaluate the relative importance of Turkish Delight versus princeship … being more concerned with sugary treatness than with political traction … surely Edmund could be quite literally described as in-nocent here — as “not-knowing”.

    Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009

  • Not being able to evaluate the relative importance of Turkish Delight versus princeship … being more concerned with sugary treatness than with political traction … surely Edmund could be quite literally described as in-nocent here — as “not-knowing”.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • It was for them the sign of princeship, as a tiara was the sign of godhead.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • To me the Prince of Wales will be no more than a shearer, unless when I meet him he displays some personality apart from his princeship -- otherwise he can go hang.

    My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

  • 'O dreamer, sit still in thy chamber, thou art a prince: air thy princeship, men will teach thee thou art an ass!'

    The Valley of the Kings Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • "May the leprosy seize him and his princeship!" shouted the banker.

    The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

  • The butler made up his mind to claim the crown princeship and the hand of the Lady Molinda; because, as he justly remarked to William, here was such a chance to better himself as might not soon come in his way again.

    Prince Prigio Andrew Lang 1878

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