Imperials [noun]

As might have been expected under these circumstances, the imperials made rapid progress.

Couriers and ladies'-maids, imperials and travelling carriages, are an abomination unto me; I cannot away with them.

Garden hyacinths, daffodils, Crown Imperials, and English primroses were just beginning to bloom; and greengages were in blossom.

We have now excellent and powerful iron presses—Stanhopes, Columbians, Imperials, &c.

It was a bed of Crown Imperials, but for some reason they flowered irregularly and produced no effect.

Up by at the castle there's a chariot with imperials that conveyed the Earl on his, the hammer-cloth most lamentably faded.

Their features are handsome and sometimes regular, and many wear thick mustachios and imperials.

Simple are the travelling preparations of those that, possessing nothing, have no imperials to pack.

For many years, this variety stood foremost among the Imperials; but is now giving place to other and greatly superior sorts.

In a moment the top of the delicate piece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half-imperials.