Pronunciation of the English word queen.
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1. | "How did you like that, dear friend," said Tom with a smile, "this checkmate that I gave you with my queen?" - Mary was shocked at first. Would she have missed something? But she soon smiled too and replied, "Well, what would you think if I captured your queen with my knight?" And having moved the knight, she removed the queen from the board. | |
2. | They named the ship Queen Mary after the Queen. | |
3. | Little Kay is really with the Snow Queen, but he finds everything there so much to his taste and his liking, that he believes it is the finest place in the world; but this is because he has a piece of broken glass in his heart, and a little piece of glass in his eye. These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him. | |
4. | As time went on, the Queen had a pretty little boy, and it happened that the King was out hunting; so the old witch took the form of the chamber-maid, went into the room where the Queen lay, and said to her, "Come, the bath is ready; it will do you good, and give you fresh strength; make haste before it gets cold." | |
5. | The witch and her daughter carried the weakly Queen into the bath-room, and put her into the bath; then they shut the door and ran away. But in the bath-room they had made a fire of such deadly heat that the beautiful young Queen was soon suffocated. | |
6. | All had gone well up to now; but one evening this wicked Queen said to her chief cook:— "I will eat the Queen with the same sauce I had with her children." | |
7. | The Ogress knew the voice of the Queen and her children at once, and being furious at having been thus deceived, she gave orders (in a most horrible voice which made everybody tremble) that, next morning by break of day, they should bring into the middle of the great court a large tub filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents, in order to have the Queen and her children, the chief cook, his wife and maid, thrown into it, all of whom were to be brought thither with their hands tied behind them. | |
8. | The queen is the most powerful piece. Second to the queen is the rook. The bishop and the knight have approximately the same value. The pawn has the lowest relative value. | |
9. | In the starting position of the game, white has the queen on a white square and black has the queen on a black square. | |
10. | A woman who marries a king becomes a queen, but a man who marries a queen does not become a king. |