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  • Keira, warrior-queen of the galaxy, is as famous for her beauty as she is for avoiding marriage.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Nalini Singh 2007

  • Hillary is Touchdown Jesus, the warrior-queen of Tuzla that taught Larry Bird how to drain 3-pointers.

    SurveyUSA: Hillary Ahead By 9 Points In Indiana Primary 2009

  • The story is always the same; hero is bronzed Earthman, heroine is proud Martian princess (or proud Venusian sorceress, or proud Saturnian warrior-queen, etc. cetera), villain who is a ruthless and ambitious fellow Martian or Venusian or Saturnian, who resents the Earthman, having a crush on said proud MP (or PVS, or PSWQ etc.)

    Archive 2008-08-01 Paul 2008

  • The story of the brave young warrior-queen who faces impossible dangers is dedicated to her.

    Stuart Hill biography 2006

  • Elizabeth, in spite of her Tilbury show, was the least warrior-queen of the lot, though it might have been different if her accession had been challenged.

    Role of women in historical fiction - Anglo-Saxon England Carla 2006

  • Burned to the ground by the Celtic warrior-queen Boudica, Camulodunum might have remained Britain's capital city had the Romans rebuilt it in the right place.

    City of Victory 2002

  • Yet Siegfried had no wish to conquer the warrior-queen and gain her hand and her broad dominions for his own.

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • Yet Siegfried had no wish to conquer the warrior-queen and gain her hand and her broad dominions for his own.

    Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Such was the famous warrior-queen, Meave, tall and beautiful, with her white face and yellow hair, terrible in her battle chariot when she drove at full speed into the press of fighting men, and "fought over the ears of the horses."

    X. The Ancient Irish Sagas 1913

  • Descending at a foot's pace, the chill of emptiness and of oncoming twilight seemed to close like icy fingers on Roy's heart; though the death of Amber was as nothing to the death of Chitor -- the warrior-queen, ravished and violently slain by Akbar's legions.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

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