What is "kinglets"

Usage examples of "kinglets".

All their lives they and the two kinglets had seemingly been natural sparring partners, despite the adventuring they had shared.

To the side of Glow were the slowly maturing kinglets, Kildom and Kildee, her charges of the past twenty years.

Worshipping power and force and money-mastery as an elderly nerveridden woman might worship youthful physical energy, the comfortable, plump-bodied cafe-oracle had jested and gibed at the ambitions of the Balkan kinglets and their peoples, had unloosed against them that battery of strange lip-sounds that a Viennese employs almost as an auxiliary language to express the thoughts when his thoughts are not complimentary.

One of the palace functionaries who was tutoring the man in the old dialect of Norman French used at the courts of many of the other Irish kinglets told di Bolgia that the man was at least trying to learn and that, therefore, he had hope that he might, someday, accomplish his task.

Will our sons and daughters life only to see our beloved land disintegrate into a patchwork of petty kinglets and greedy cities, squabbling among themselves like a litter of starving mongrels?

It was said that some of their leaders were setting themselves up as kinglets in their own right.

The stubborn independence and pugnacious factionality of the multitudinous Irish kinglets was proverbial in this world.