Sentence examples for queen's command from inspiring English sources

He is only brought back to a sense of his responsibilities after she has been killed at the queen's command.

It was brought to me from the palace, with other preciousgarments made for me at the queen's command.

Their "relationship", however, goes back to 1702 and John Dennis's (unverifiable) anecdote about Shakespeare writing The Merry Wives of Windsor in answer to the Queen's command, and according to her direction, in 14 days.

In truth, Alice is stamping her charming little foot amidst a bizarre world in which the Queen's command, "Off with their heads," is too eerily close to Isis.

Cagney's frequent co-star, Pat O'Brien, appeared with him on the British chat show Parkinson in the early 1970s and they both made a surprise appearance at the Queen Mother's command birthday performance at the London Palladium in 1980.

As long as the fiscal crisis and fears of a return to recession persist, however, the economic measures in the Queen's Speech will command more attention than its promised reshaping of the state.

(Tellingly, she's at her best in the comic scene where a robotic Eliza visits Henry's mother to test her command of the Queen's English.) And there's no fire in her final face-off with Henry.

The scene exemplifies many of the queen's qualities: her courage, her histrionic command of grand public occasions, her rhetorical blending of magniloquence and the language of love, her strategic identification with martial virtues considered male, and even her princely parsimony.

The D'Oyly Carte company performed Pinafore before Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 16 June 1977, during the queen's Silver Jubilee year, the first royal command performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera since 1891.

When the Seaforths were amalgamated he became second-in-command of the Queen's Own Highlanders.

Major Paddy Bond, officer commanding B Squadron, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, said L/Cpl Scanlon constantly looked out for the welfare of his younger peers.