dauphins
- plural of dauphin.
Example Sentences
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"If he had brothers were they dauphins too?"
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
You observed his majesty could not pension a helpless idiot without encouraging dauphins.
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.
From The Younger Set by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
It long formed part of Provence, but in 1232 most of the region passed by marriage to the dauphins of Viennois.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,—Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
