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Some have been too fat, too bulky, too clunky, or too inaccurate to be a successful pretender to the throne.
Is he the great socialist pretender, taking his place amongst the regal, instead of the people?
Also if you click the swap link above you'll see I beat some pretender to the inflatable throne by a minute.
The pretender to the throne left the country before the police could question him about the incident.
The one thing most people are likely to have heard about the young pretender is his refusal to say whether he has used illegal drugs.
Plus, I am not even Chinese, so I am not a China girl per se, just a pretender to the throne.
An express, which came to them yesterday from the pretender, will put them in a better condition for foruming a plan.
Rome has just been sacked, the Goths are ravaging Italy and the western half of his empire, where Britain lies, has been supporting a pretender.
I believe this to be the true king of the jungle and not that overrated pretender, the lion.
To refuse to blame the system is to assume a certain power, the way a pretender assumes a royal title or titular duchy or two.
Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
Sure, three sexy women are in it, but the only way I'll see this pretender to feminism is for free.
Carlism was a movement that arose in the 19th century in support of a pretender to the Spanish throne.
With this he would regain his freedom from enslavement to the wicked Asurimus, to that pretender to godhood.
He isn't thinking of returning full-time to a career in interviewing and he wasn't keen to offer advice to the latest pretender to his throne.
Charles's three sisters had married into the royal families of Bavaria, Austria, and France, and each had a son who was a pretender to the Spanish throne.
He was a great pretender to the saintly character, a animose declaimer against Charles I, and one of the foremost to encourage and justify the rebellion.
Proves that a serious pretender to the throne of pop music refinement need not settle for a mere band when the London Philharmonic will do just as well.
The movie is convicted of being an unworthy pretender to the throne.
The head of the family and pretender to the throne, Otto von Habsburg, was also promised Muerzsteg Castle, which is today the summer seat of the Austrian head of state.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A detachment of the 520th leger has marched in pursuit of the pretender and his dupes.
The body had been stripped by Zargheba to furnish the accouterments for the pretender.
Was he a sciolist, was he a pretender, or did he really judge of it from a station of heaven-inspired knowledge?
He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.
Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the pretender?
The whole extent of his fault was revealed to him at simple sight of the pretender.
The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.
And yet you see after all I am like to turn out only a pretender.
A pretender rose in the person of Holmger, the son of Knut the Tall.
A portion of the Mahratta nation was favorable to a pretender.
The tzar answers that he must first see the pretender to her hand.
He worked upon the emperor's mind in favour of the Monophysite pretender.
Further on, a young scamp was taking a lesson in epilepsy from an old pretender, who was instructing him in the art of foaming at the mouth, by chewing a morsel of soap.
But, it was only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, contrasted with this brazen pretender.
This man is a pretender, and ignorant, else he had known that that weapon can be used in but eight bouts only, and then it vanisheth away to its home under the sea.
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