quean

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His movement has the terror of thunder breaking in the middle of the night,— "Quean sequitur fragor et fractæ collisio nubis."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

Appearing at the Bar of the House of Commons, this vile impostor cried out, "Aye, Taitus Oates, accause Caatharine, Quean of England, of haigh traison."

From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)

Then aloud to the Abbot he said, "An it please you, sir, I can sing 'O Mary Quean!'"

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

Under the first was written 'The Zarr,' and under the other 'The Empress Quean.'

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter