"Queen it over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in that very chair, standing in exactly the same spot as now, that little Marian had been accustomed to sit, when she used to come in and delight the two little bachelors with her quaint sayings, and queen it over them in her pretty wilful way. For her sake, the old chair had ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth
... always a dangerous principle of conduct. She who consents to marry another, without love, esteem, or respect for him, and merely to queen it over his life, can hardly possess the Christian temper. She is assuredly destitute of that chief grace of her sex, deep and sincere affection. Mrs. Phelps says, on this subject, that "Submission and obedience belong to everything in the Universe, ...
— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey |
