In semi-empty, if regal, state, she Queened it for a time, her title barren, her real power in Egypt practically confined to her brain and to her charm.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
She was a proud girl, accustomed to love and admiration since early childhood, when she had Queened it over her playmates because her yellow curls were longer than theirs, her cheeks pinker, her eyes brighter and her slim, strong body taller.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
There were colonels there at whose titles and the owners' rights to them no one could laugh; there were brilliant women there who had Queened it in Richmond, Baltimore, Louisville, and New Orleans, and every Southern capital under the old regime, and there were younger ones there of wit and beauty who were just beginning to hold their court.
"The Sport of the Gods"
Paul Laurence Dunbar