Dauphins

Word DAUPHINS
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The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois.

Allegorical An eldest son.

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The word "dauphins" in example sentences

Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, — Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Make no mistake, Roberts and Alia are carefully cultivated dauphins prepared from youth by the powerful few who think it is their birthright to own us all. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The dauphins have no such officer: but I will admit that they had. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

These are but a few of the numerous sham dauphins who have at various times appeared. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Later, the agents of one of those false dauphins so numerous under the ❋ Anatole France (1884)

When dauphins are as plentiful as blackberries in France and the court never sees a beggar appear without exclaiming: 'Here comes another dauphin!' ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

You observed his majesty could not pension a helpless idiot without encouraging dauphins. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

They are brought up like young dauphins, and tossed into the costly whirl to float as best they can -- on nothing. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

With his arrogant, solemn air, overweighted with responsibilities, which would have become the prelates charged with the education of the dauphins of France, he preceded three curled and gloved little gentlemen in short jackets, with leather knapsacks, and great red stockings reaching half-way up their little thin legs, in complete suits of cyclist dress, ready to mount. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

Valois, first wife of Henry IV.; twenty-four dauphins, princes, and princesses, children and grandchildren of France; eleven divers personages (Hugues-le-grand, four abbes of Saint-Denis, three chamberlains, two constables, and Sedille de Sainte-Croix, wife of the Counsellor Jean Pastourelle). ❋ Arthur L��on Imbert De Saint-Amand (1867)

Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, -- Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau. ❋ Unknown (1862)

XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, -- Napoleon and Mathurin ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

We sent to inform the king, who was almost overcome by the thought that he was about to become the father of two dauphins. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Colonel Qaddafi has long ruled through a phalanx of thuggish dauphins, each playing a different role - one the totalitarian enforcer, another, the pro-Western liberalizer - and each vying for the succession. ❋ By SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE (2011)

It was in the Castle of Vizille, a former residence of the dauphins, that the three orders of Dauphiny met, closely united together in wise and patriotic accord. ❋ Unknown (1830)

A Taiji, au Japon, il se mobilise contre le massacre de plusieurs milliers de dauphins par an, perpétré à l'abri des regards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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