lordly
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I quote Mr. Jenkins’s Sept. 12 column only because I happened to read it that day and because his cold and lordly tone captures the European chattering classes’ response to the event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
Peter Dinklage’s mental patient is a lordly, theatrical Christ, who speaks fondly of opera and England.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
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
It had been Robin’s plan to issue orders as his father might have done; to have been lordly and commanding.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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
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 Euripides by Euripides
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 A Book of Epigrams by Various
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 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
A marble staircase led him to the lordliest smoking-room in London.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Of this, the lordliest mental exhibition, there is a sovereign example in the words wherewith Milton concludes the passage— “and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
The "lingering orange afterglow" is "more fair than all Rome's lordliest pageants."
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
