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COVID-19 has infected the likes of the United Kingdom’s prime minister and
crown
prince, professional athletes, and multiple Hollywood celebrities, showing that it has no regard for whether a person is rich or poor.
Given Trump’s apparent loyalty to Saudi Arabia – based, not least, on lucrative arms deals – the Kingdom’s
crown
prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was probably privy to the plan’s contents before it was released.
The Italian king’s acquiescence would eventually cost him his
crown
and lead to his exile after World War II.
Few – at least for now – fear for the safety of Queen Elizabeth’s
crown.
Vining, a Philadelphia Quaker, served as the
crown
prince’s personal tutor, teaching him English and other subjects.
The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently framed the election this way, before complaining that Joe Biden “shouldn’t be seated in a handsome chair waiting for the
crown
to be passed, or going out for ice cream in a mask like John Dillinger on the lam.”
But, as a
crown
colony until July 1997, it had some of the benefits of democratic rule, such as a relatively free press and a robust independent judiciary.
One of the most desperate gestures of the people who occupied the legislative chamber in Hong Kong was raising the flag of the old British
crown
colony.
The
crown
jewel of this system is the Three Gorges Dam – the largest in the world – which is designed precisely to smooth the impact of a peak flood.
The WTO’s dispute-settlement mechanism has long been considered one of its
crown
jewels.
All this while Kitty, long since ready in her white dress, long veil, and
crown
of orange blossoms, stood with an old lady who was to accompany her and her sister, the Princess Lvova, at a window of the ballroom at the Shcherbatskys' for the last half hour vainly expecting her best man to come and announce that the bridegroom had reached the church.
Young Shcherbatsky told the old Maid of Honour Nikolayeva that he intended to put the
crown
on Kitty's chignon, to make her happy.
She remembered not herself only, but all the women with whom she was intimate or acquainted: thought of them as they had been at that most solemn moment of their lives when, like Kitty, they had stood beneath the nuptial
crown
with love, hope and fear in their hearts, renouncing the past and entering upon the mystic future.
'Put it quite on!' came the words of advice when the priest had put crowns on their heads and Shcherbatsky, his hand in its three-buttoned glove trembling, held the
crown
high above Kitty's head.
'There's another, near the branch,' she said, pointing to a small mushroom cut across its firm pinkish
crown
by a dry blade of grass from beneath which it had sprung up.
'"Heavy is the Autocrat's crown!"[A quotation from Pushkin's Boris Godunov.] said Oblonsky banteringly, evidently alluding not only to the Princess's conversation, but also to the cause of Levin's agitation, which he had observed.
When he opened his dazzled eyes the first thing Levin saw with horror through the dense curtain of rain that now separated him from the Kolok was the strangely altered position of the green
crown
of a familiar oak in the middle of the wood.
'Has it been struck?' he had barely time to think when, with quicker and quicker motion, the
crown
of the oak disappeared behind the other trees, and he heard the crash of a big tree falling on to other trees.
It was decorated with two garlands of paper flowers which crossed one another, and were united in the middle by a
crown
of the same flowers; while along the walls were rows of gilt shields bearing the names of saints--St.
The decorations were the same, the garlands which supported at the ceiling a
crown
of painted paper flowers, and the gilt cardboard shields in a line along the wall with the names of saints, male and female.
To the naturalist's eye, its gracefully rounded crown, formed of big multilobed leaves, was enough to denote the artocarpus that has been so successfully transplanted to the Mascarene Islands east of Madagascar.
Also caught were a couple dozen Nile duck, superior-tasting wildfowl whose neck and
crown
of the head are white speckled with black.
"In essence, the year before, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had signed a treaty of alliance at The Hague, aiming to wrest the Spanish
crown
from King Philip V and to place it on the head of an archduke whom they prematurely dubbed King Charles III."Spain had to withstand these allies.
When he read the fine passages he was transported, but when he thought that mummers would get something out of them for their show, he was disconsolate; and in this confusion of sentiments in which he was involved he would have liked at once to
crown
Racine with both his hands and discuss with him for a good quarter of an hour.
He had on a frock-coat, nankeen trousers, beaver shoes, and, for a wonder, a hat with a low
crown.
This second test set the
crown
of glory on his achievement.
A richly gilded wooden
crown
was supported on eight great twisted columns of Italian marble.
He arranged them admirably upon the ornament in the form of a
crown
in the centre of the baldachino.
Julien flung a
crown
to the peasant who stood listening to them, open-mouthed.
Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that
crown
the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character.
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