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That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Arya meanwhile gets on a ship bound for “west of Westeros,” and Bronn, having perhaps threatened Tyrion with his crossbow offscreen at some point, minds the money of Westeros from a lordly perch at Highgarden.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019

The first two lines would sweep up the river to engage and destroy Jeffrey's little fleet, or "the boy's toys" as Ser Imry dubbed them, to the mirth of his lordly captains.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It at least belongs to the domain of a lordlier, more majestic, more guiding and ordaining art.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

He was kin to men lordlier than himself, the true-hearted who had ridden the King's path and trampled a little world under foot.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John

A child’s heart toward his kind is not more pure, An eagle’s toward the sun no lordlier eye.

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

This accustomed visitor would seem a gifted vocalist, but for the inevitable comparison between his thinner note and the gushing melodies of the lordlier bird.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

Nor shall my lord the king behold A lordlier friend of mightier mould Than Balen, though his tale be told    Ere noon fulfil his morn.”

From The Tale of Balen by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars in the country and the Comstock Prize, its highest honor, is awarded only once every five years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though dust your house, Justinian,     Still stands your lordliest shrine, But the dark men who walk therein,     Know not of bread nor wine.

From Poems - Second Series by Squire, J. C. (John Collings)

A marble staircase led him to the lordliest smoking-room in London.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

“Oh, I’d like to!” beamed Billy, “only I’m afraid you might be jealous─” “Not of no pup, kid,” returned Wunpost with his lordliest swagger, “and if you steal him, by grab you can have him!”

From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane