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The Queen Mary is the world's largest and most expensive passenger liner.
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Miss Garscube was able for nothing but to go to bed, and Miss Adamson stayed with her in the room called Queen Mary's, being the room that unfortunate lady occupied when she visited Cockhoolet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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William III and Queen Mary, which is engraved on the reverse side of the body.
All About Coffee 1909
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The king's wife, who was called Queen Mary, was a French Catholic.
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The Royal MS. 2 B 3, commonly known as Queen Mary's Psalter, is a good specimen of fourteenth century art.
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"It occurs to me that one man ought to be thankful when we depart, for then he will be able to call Queen Mary names every Sunday without a misguided Jacobite girl dropping in to create a disturbance."
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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[Note: Queen Mary was Henrietta Maria, always termed Queen Mary during her own reign.] "He was a black man, was he not?"
The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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These rooms are called Queen Mary's rooms, and almost every body who visits Scotland goes to see them.
Rollo in Scotland Jacob Abbott 1841
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She was dressed in what was called a Queen Mary's ruff and farthingale; not the falling ruff with which the unfortunate Mary of Scotland is usually painted, but that which, with more than Spanish stiffness, surrounded the throat, and set off the morose head, of her fierce namesake, of Smithfield memory.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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My long habitation in the neighbourhood, and the quiet respectability of my habits, have given me a sort of intimacy with good Mrs. Policy, the housekeeper in that most interesting part of the old building called Queen Mary's Apartments.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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