lordly
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“Gone forever are the mighty herds of the lordly buffalo,” Theodore Roosevelt declared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
From 1958 to 1961, sulking Giants and Dodgers fans had to put up with the lordly Yankees winning three pennants and two World Series.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
When I entered Babylon in a peaceful manner, I took up my lordly abode in the royal palace amidst rejoicing and happiness.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The other was a stag, a beautiful lordly creature with wide liquid eyes, dappled flanks and legs so thin and graceful that they looked as if you could break them with two fingers.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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 John Buchan
Spring, the low prelude of a lordlier song: Summer, a music without hint of death: Autumn, a cadence lingeringly long: Winter, a pause;—the Minstrel-Year takes breath.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
A starrier lustre of lordlier music rose Beyond the sundering bar of seas and snows When Chaucer's thought took life and light from his And England's crown was one with Italy's.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 John Ruskin
They strew the passions that enrich a lordlier art than their own.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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
The old nobility of Great Britain is the lordliest of aristocracies existing in the world.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Here the sun scarcely wakes; Like a monarch it takes Rest on the lordliest branches alone.
From Challenge by Louis Untermeyer
Resistance, stubborn selfishness, Can trouble lordliest success, Till, in deep angry pain one must Grow tired at last of being first!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
