dowager in English
the dowager duchess
Use "dowager" in a sentence
1. Queen Moth or Dowager Queen?
2. The empress dowager heeded their advice in February 1912.
3. In that moment, the Empress Dowager will preside over a shift in power.
4. (Empress Dowager Lu herself had died during the war under suspicious circumstances.
5. As a widow, she was styled Princess Dowager on 17 October 1806.
6. 10 The empress dowager gave orders to snuff out the crown prince.
7. I left the Queen Dowager in the fire to rescue the prince.
8. More to the point, there may be more than one queen dowager at any given time.
9. The post - chaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy , with a maid, her contemporary.
10. The empress dowager didn't hesitate to harshly criticise the policies and behaviour of her son.
11. Empress He, as the emperor's mother, became empress dowager and attended imperial court sessions alongside her son.
12. Dance with the Dowager: The Allemande is a war table operation in Dragon Age: Inquisition
13. The Queen Dowager soon became the Abbess of Gudhem Abbey, and served in that position until her death there in 1252.
14. In late 1898, physicians diagnosed the empress dowager with inoperable breast cancer, forcing her to stay in bed for long periods.
15. Under the North Transept window there is the tomb of a Dowager Duchess of Buckingham, an antecedent of the Duke of Norfolk.
16. The empress dowager then settled in Kronberg im Taunus, where she built Friedrichshof, a castle, named in honour of her late husband.
17. On January 1, 951, the young emperor again wanted to go encourage the army, and he did so against Empress Dowager Li's advice.
18. Exacerbating the situation was the fact that Empress Dowager Hu did not like to hear about news of rebel successes, and therefore her attendants often made up good news, causing her to often refuse generals' requests for reinforcements.
19. "Madam," says the lad, "I am infarnally glad of your Acquaintancy." My aunt, the dowager, was a person of too much breeding to express or to otherwise betray any astonishment at this; but I am sure she felt it, for though she had never seen Prue,
20. Empress Xiaozhenxian (12 August 1837 – 8 April 1881), of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Niohuru clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and empress consort of Yizhu, the Xianfeng Emperor.She was Empress consort of Qing from 1852 until her husband's death in 1861, after which she was honoured as Empress Dowager Ci'an.
21. In August 2008, Doña Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia and three-time Grandee of Spain (branded the Red Duchess for her socialist activism), became the highest ranking Spanish noble to marry in an articulo mortis (deathbed) wedding to longtime companion Liliana Maria Dahlmann, now the Dowager Duchess of Medina Sidonia by right of her late wife.
22. The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, Animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world