"Show me," she said, eagerly, and shading her eyes with one hand, "where does the land lie-this principality of which Jessie will be mistress?"
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
In the course of his religious labors, he visited the meetings of Friends generally in most of the Quarterly Meetings in England, and many meetings within the principality of Wales; and divers of them repeatedly.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
It would have been impossible for any purchase or any possession of palace, pyramid, or principality to make prouder the heart of Mrs. Cliff than did the consciousness that she was the owner of a fine sea vessel worked by steam.
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton