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King Richard

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What does King Richard mean?

proper noun

  1. Any of various English kings named Richard.
More meanings (1)

proper noun

  1. (derogatory, humorous) Richard Nixon.

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I am still more obliged to you for the trouble you have given yourself about King Richard.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
There were many who, with a more generous feeling, exclaimed, “Long live King Richard! and may he be speedily restored to us!”
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
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A few dirty men, who had been hired and stationed there for the purpose, crying when he had done, ‘God save King Richard!’
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
No doubt, if a King Richard III were worsted on a modern battlefield, his instinctive cry would be, "My Kingdom for a telephone!"
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819
March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100