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  • That I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, got by accident or violence; that my country was governed by a female man, whom we called a Queen.

    Gulliver's Travels 1896

  • But not one of the rest so much as moved his head, since already every man of them hated this stranger who was about to carry away her whom they called their Queen.

    Pearl-Maiden Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Brian May, of course, the guy who happened to play in a band called Queen.

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2005 2005

  • And like a true superstar, she also has her own fragrance called Queen.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jeanne Beker 2011

  • Who cares … well, more Americans will respond to how Obama deals with an unemployed descendent of British mobsters (i.e. nobles who stole everyone's property around them and set the peasants to work for them.) aka the Queen.

    The Hill Blog 2009

  • My mom (who is 73) is the Sudoko / Crossword Queen.

    PW FULL RSS FEED 2009

  • Poor little Cis, a sturdy girl of twelve or thirteen, playing at ball with little Ned on the terrace, and coming with tardy steps to her daily task of spinning, had little of the princess about her; and yet when she sat down, and the management of distaff and thread threw her shoulders back, there was something in the poise of her small head and the gesture of her hand that forcibly recalled the Queen.

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • April 22, 2010 - It seems that Dr. Jillian Weiss's expose of the fearmongering and scare tactics behind the Traditional Values Coalition's attacks on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has outraged the mob of zombies '"Queen."

    Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel 2010

  • When Edward became King, she plotted to force his abdication so George could ascend and she could become 'Queen.'

    Johann Hari: Can We Finally Tell the Truth About Britain's Vile 'Queen Mother'? 2009

  • Especially if you say ANYTHING negative about the "Queen."

    Off-blog Althouse. Ann Althouse 2009

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