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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

Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful; and older.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But they fail not, the kinglier breed,   Who starry diadems attain; To dungeon, axe, and stake succeed   Heirs of the old heroic strain.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

Or is it the rage of stark Edward; the base Unkingly revenge on a kinglier race; The wrong idly wrought on the patriot dead; The dark castle of doom; the scorn-diadem’d head?

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Henry Morley

"Ah, wait," said Jean-aux-Choux—"wait till you have seen him on a battle-front, and you will be sure that, for all his faults, there never was a more manly man or a kinglier king!"

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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 Alfred Noyes

Why, he was great of thews—and wise, thou say'st: Yet seems my sire to me the fairer-faced - The kinglier and the kindlier.

From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

He is "earth's essential king," but his kingship rests upon his carrying out the kingliest of mottoes—"Ich dien."

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

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 Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Converted into steel, in masses that would lately have staggered men's thoughts, it becomes the kingliest instrument of peoples for subduing the earth.

From Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 by William C. Kingsley