kingly
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A purchase is theoretically possible and has historic precedents—although expanding one’s territory with gold or other payments has become rarer in modern times as nation states replaced empires and kingly realms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Later they turn to kingly and materialistic protections against their wandering.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
Worn at every coronation since then, it symbolises kingly dignity.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
Some of the lack of enthusiasm might be attributable to the fact that, at 74, Charles has spent the bulk of his life awaiting the kingly role that passed to him upon Elizabeth’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
"Well, Robb Stark is my father's bane. Joffrey is mine. Tell me, what do you feel for my kingly nephew?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He can be gentle as a bride, While none can rule with kinglier pride; Calm to hear, and wise to prove, Yet gay as lark in soaring love.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
As the spectator stands midway between the two busts, at some distance from both, Irving has the larger and the kinglier air, and the face of Astor seems small and set.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James
Had he sentHis hundred thousand kernes to yonder steepAnd rolled its boulders down, and built a moleTo fence my laden ships from spring-tide surge,Far kinglier pattern had he shown, and givenMore solace to the land.”
From The Legends of Saint Patrick by De Vere, Aubrey
Then he waved his hand With a kinglier watch-word, "We are as near To heaven, my lads, by sea as by land!"
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred
Thy cousin, the trout, in his purple and gold with crimson spots, wears a more splendid armour than thy russet and silver mottled with black, but thine is the kinglier nature.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry
For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kingliest Abbey in all Christian lands, The lordliest, loftiest minster ever built To Holy Peter in our English isle!
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Freedom of worship, liberty of conscience, were bought at the cost of the kingliest head that ever wore a crown.
From Hero Tales of the Far North by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
He was the kingliest, goodliest knight That ever England roved, The truest lover of sinful man That ever woman loved.
From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee
