"May queen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then select by lot, one of their number to be crowned as May Queen. She is crowned with a beautiful wreath of flowers and presides for the rest of the day over the amusements of her subjects. In the picture you see the May pole—the Queen, the crowner, and her two maids ...
— The Girl's Cabinet of Instructive and Moral Stories • Uncle Philip
... so mournful," she repeated, "to think of the child junketing up on the hill, and May Queen an' all, an' that poor ...
— White Lilac; or the Queen of the May • Amy Walton
... the Chase, and she'll bring them with her. If Milner drives them, I shall ask Miss Walters if he may come and watch too. He'd be so delighted to see it. He loves anything of that kind. His own little girl was May Queen at the village pageant two years ago, and he's talked about it ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... (The), a poem in three parts by Tennyson (1842). Alice, a bright-eyed, merry child, was chosen May queen, and, being afraid she might oversleep herself, told her mother to be sure ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer |
