lordly
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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
Thou shalt lie down Undying with the dead, and lordlier there Than all the gold Odysseus' breast can bear, The evil and the strong!
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
Devil and brute Thou dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know!
From The Knave of Diamonds by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
But he, With lordlier pride of courtesy, Put forth his hand and set her free From pain and humbled pride.
From The Tale of Balen by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
A child's heart toward his kind is not more pure, An eagle's toward the sun no lordlier eye.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
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
At the Congress of Rastatt her envoys disposed of German duchies and bishoprics in the lordliest way.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
III Shelley, lyric lord of England's lordliest singers, here first heard Ring from lips of poets crowned and dead the Promethean word Whence his soul took fire, and power to outsoar the sunward-soaring bird.
From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Alcmæonid drew himself to full height and gave his head its lordliest poise.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
