Sentence examples for fair queen from inspiring English sources

A pear run, a pear parade, a pear pie eating contest and a pear fair queen are as much a part of life's rhythm here as the pruning, picking and packing of pears.

As the midday sun began to reach its full power, Ms. Elliot watched the pear parade from a folding chair with her daughter Rachel, the 2010 pear fair queen, sometimes sitting on her lap.

It would have mattered less had a 14-year-old girl not gone missing on her bike that bright morning, floating along in the familiar slow motion of the doomed – a fair Queen of the May in her floral crown and ribbons and diaphanous skirts a-blowing.

If modesty is not one of the fair queen's strong points, it also has no place in dibble, a competitive game that dates to at least the 1940s as the defining pastime of this exclusive peninsula in Douglaston with stately homes and winding, sloping streets.

In between the "4H/FFA Meat Pen Competition" and the Missouri State Fair Queen (congrats to you, Ashley Bauer!), there was a rodeo featuring a clown wearing an Obama mask.

The manager's name was Elizabeth Hulette, a 24-year-old Kentuckian and former competitor for the title of county-fair queen.

Charms abounded, especially in Edward Johnson's "Eliza Is the Fairest Queen," with its studiedly fawning text: "Eliza's breast is that fair hill,/Where virtue dwells, and sacred skill".

Elisa Is The Fairest Queen.

Labour's self-confidence emerges in its own alternative "fair deal" Queen's speech agenda: it would restore the 50p top rate; give granny back her lost pension; and tax bank bonuses to build homes and give the young a job guarantee, while stopping energy, rail, bank and pension company price scams.

Dench, who played the imperious but fair-minded Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love - and whose award was widely seen as compensation for her failure to win for Mrs Brown in 1998 - and James Coburn, the alcoholic, abusive father in Affliction, won best supporting Oscars.

Only Ann-Margret, as the fair's reigning queen, retains her dignity.