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- noun A
woman who has gained theadoration of thepublic .
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In July last (1879) a woman, known as the Queen of Hearts, who had attained the age of one hundred years, and who had been known for three quarters of a century as a fortune-teller, died in Vienna.
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Forty-four years later, when the Queen of Hearts was a stout, dowdy old lady, with no traces of beauty, and himself a flighty, amiable old gossip of seventy, Karl Victor von Bonstetten wrote to the Countess of
The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895
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Recall the Queen of Hearts 'disdainful remark, "Sentence first, verdict afterwards."
Latest Articles 2010
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The Queen of Hearts is a character in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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The Queen of Hearts is a character in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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I’m willing to bet Burton gives the Mad Hatter a *back story*, the Queen of Hearts will be a mutation of Alice’s corporate stepmother and Alice will learn something about herself by the end of the movie.
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The dominant doll is Shinku, whose crimson frock and imperious manner make her a kind of Queen of Hearts in this demented Wonderland.
Toon Zone News 2009
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Stylistically this is full of surprises: a tap dancing Mad Hatter, a preposterous Rose Adagio for the Queen of Hearts (with jam tarts) and the genius casting of Simon Russell Beale as the Duchess (right), dancing and acting a comic storm over her Hell's Kitchen of a sausage factory.
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The Tim Burton-esque dark designs include a pin-up surrounded by poker chips posed below the Hollywood sign, and the Queen of Hearts and the White Rabbit hanging onto a clock-tower decorated with skulls both € 155.
Fashion Ties the Knot Christina Passariello 2011
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Alice's father, Henry Liddell (who inspired the White Rabbit), his wife Lorina, and the governess Miss Pricks (who inspired the Queen of Hearts) came to Llandudno for family vacations.
C. M. Rubin: Alice -- In Wales? C. M. Rubin 2012
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