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Definition of Crownlets
1. crownlet [n] - See also: crownlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crownlets
Literary usage of Crownlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... or Princesses more fond P Or crop of Princelings smaller across the herring-pond
P Is't that promise or that produce of crownlets waxes poor In these ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"But George is dead; careless of it now." After sixty- seven years of it, he has
flung his big burdens, — English crowns, Hanoverian crownlets, ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... crownlets and gauds of rare device. Think'st thou with these to cheat the
heart But thou, experienced as thou art, 230 That, bound in strong affection's ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"... about it by its abstract name of' the Crown,' into as many corpuscles politic
or crownlets as there are autonomous legislatures under the British flag. ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"But George is dead; careless of it now.3 After sixty-seven years of it, he has
flung his big burdens,—English crowns, Hanoverian crownlets, ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"But George is dead ; careless of it now.1 After sixty- seven years of it, he has
flung his big burdens,—English crowns, Hanoverian crownlets, ..."
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