In chess, the mandatory immediate replacement of a pawn reaching its 8th rank by the player's choice of a queen, knight, rook, or bishop of the same color.
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Uso de queening em inglês
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Mrs. Rennie has been queening it in Riverton society for the past month.
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She was queening it, apparently, over a little band of awed masculine worshippers.
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Sibyl, queening it at some distance, had the air of conferring a favour as she listened.
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Let her stay in her sphere queening it, and leave us poor mortals to our bread and butter.
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This is the archetypal picture one has of Maugham: queening it, in every sense of the word, over the villa.
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That is, they call me that, although I am really Lillian, and I never had any fancy for this queening.
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Perhaps I might have been in more real danger in queening it at Nid de Merle than in submitting at Paris.
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Obviously the queening has to come first, but she is one of the best there is when it comes to potions.'
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For if it were, how much, how very much she would enjoy queening it for a few days-exceptfor David's sadness.
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Social standing helped him in business; and he enjoyed the sight of his beautiful young wife queening it serenely over the city's best.
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Charles was already in St. James's, and the ladies were already queening it in the new Court over the renegade beauties of the old one.
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Winter Queening is a durable Apple, and makes good Cider.
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Queening it from her pillows Judith looked quite Romanesque, with Jane perched on a cretonne pedestal above the divan's level, waving her riding crop regally.
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He was quite sure he knew what the young queen was thinking.
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Obama met the queen three times, including a state visit in 2011.
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The queen dropped in a fainting-fit; and the brute left the room.