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A crown-prince unicorn offers us a legendary gift, but it vanishes.
“Dragon Wytch” by Yasmine Galenorn Doug Knipe 2008
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A fellow William and Mary grad-Jon Stewart-is the crown-prince of this truth, the power of which was born out in attendance at his recent rally.
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Gore, who could have been merely the political family's designated inheritor, never accepted the luckyboy, crown-prince role: he carved out his own areas of expertise as well as his own political orientation which was sometimes at odds with his party and was quite different from the orientation of his populist-liberal father, the senator before him.
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The monarch nominated, during his lifetime, one of his sons as his successor; and the _wali-al-ahd_, or crown-prince, thus selected, received the oaths of allegiance of the dignitaries of the state, and was admitted to a share in the administration -- a wise regulation, which prevented the recurrence of the civil wars arising from the ambition of princes of the blood, which had distracted the reigns of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Juan was made crown-prince, and on the death of King
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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In the lately-published memoirs of the German novelist Hackländer -- who in 1843 figured as secretary to the crown-prince of Würtemberg during his visit to Italy -- we have an agreeable picture of M. Demidoff at San
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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During a portion of his reign the crabbed old king feared that all his labors and savings would go for naught, for he was supremely disappointed in his son, the crown-prince Frederick.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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Marshal Bernadotte, who was crown-prince of Sweden and tired of
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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For similar reasons he annulled, in 1208, the marriage of the crown-prince, Alfonso of Portugal, with Urraca, daughter of Alfonso of Castile.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Flatterers, and even the tutor himself, stimulated the extravagant imperiousness of the crown-prince, while Martini (professor of natural law) found in him an eager student of physiocracy -- a doctrine which affected profoundly Joseph's mind, firing him with an enthusiasm for current views, the "rights of man", and the welfare of the people.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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