queenly
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Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
O’Connell — Didi, to her intimates — is petite and nimble, with a queenly nimbus of red hair and a default expression, offstage anyway, of intent curiosity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Gertrude also left her queenly seat, making two thrones vacant Overcome with grief, she closeted herself like a nun and received no one for weeks.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
They may even be queenlier now than they were in 2020; at times I thought they seemed over-primed by the time off.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
The world is old, It hath sent here none queenlier.
From A Lover's Diary, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker
And then I heard—ah! ne'er was known Such judgment without malice, Nor queenlier council ever heard In senate, house or palace!—
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
She had lost none of her beauty, but in her rough garb, browned by the sun and wind and sea, she seemed, in Claude's eyes, queenlier than ever.
From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by T. G. Marquis
Rounder, and queenlier, and more fair Her form grew, and her golden hair Fell yearly richer at the master's side.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman
Could Music rescue thus from Soul's profound, Give feeling immortality by sound,436 Then were she queenliest of Arts!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
It was filled to overflowing with the youth of the neighborhood, and Agnes Farwell, Joe's niece, the queenliest of them all, was leading the dance, her dark face aglow, her deep brown eyes alight.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Come, let the burial rite be read—the funeral song be sung: An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young, A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
The opening notes of a festival To jubilate the reign of the summer Beauteous, queenliest, rosy-robed comer.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
Thus he paints the poor nymph beloved of Apollo,—the clearest and queenliest in prophecy and command of all the sibyls,—as an ugly crone, with the arms of Goliath, poring down upon a single book.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
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