Wife of Ivan the Terrible

Usage examples of anastasia.

I am My Serene Highness, Crown Princess of the Nonarable Lands, Duchess of the Frozen Fjords, Marchioness of the Miserable Mires, Anastasia Ilonia Vasilia Gwendolyn Martha Nettletongue, at your service, though actually, you understand, that is only a figure of speaking.

The three of them turned back towards where Anastasia waited, no longer fainting but sore and silent.

Bronwyn and Jack fell quickly asleep and shortly afterwards, she heard Anastasia struggle upright and limp toward the river, and thought the swan must be feeling better if she felt like swimming.

Sighing, Anastasia made a sort of hopping swoop to the center of the river, where the current was strongest.

She peered with her wide, green stare at Jack and Bronwyn, and with less curiosity at Anastasia, who fluttered down beside them.

Though the pool contained fresh water rather than salt unless inadvertently mingled with unusually high waves, it grew none of the plants of which Anastasia was fond, and she was obliged, as were the rest of them, to subsist on seaweed salad.

Maybe Anastasia would mend enough, in a few days, to fly them to land, one at a time, while the mermaids were showing Carole how to scout for ships or taking her on tours of their past conquests, wrecks sunk far beneath the waves.

One never knew when Carole would decide to dunk one in something liquid, or when Anastasia would fly into a royal swanly conniption.

Behind her, a growl and a bark and a small dog, some sort of terrier perhaps, popped from between her knees to give Anastasia a piece of his mind.

The ones they gave Anastasia were more covetous than anything else, Jack thought.

He would be back in a few hours, much enriched, and at that time he would waken them and tell them of the conversation he had overheard and together they would take pains to see to it that they and the Princess Anastasia remained whole and mobile enough to repair to the capital.

Since Anastasia was probably not staying up reading, and would have been unable to light a candle even had their hosts been kind enough to provide her with one, he had to assume someone else was in the stable.

They pushed it half into the water, but when they were ready to hitch Anastasia to it, the swan flatly refused.

At least Carole and Anastasia were not troubled by water monsters, a fact with which they comforted each other.

Carole sat on the edge of the fountain and fumed while Anastasia zoomed around the statue of the octopus spouting water into the pool.