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 surge ended in the World Series, the lordly Yankees winning in six games, but Mays was on his way and Durocher gave him full credit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
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
"And the silver brooch. Ser Rodrik will want me to look lordly."
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
That is now a provincial High Street beside its lordlier compeer; but I remember when Broadway stormed and swarmed with busy life.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
It had watched the ebb and flow of lordlier fortunes.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
They strew the passions that enrich a lordlier art than their own.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
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 Alcmæonid drew himself to full height and gave his head its lordliest poise.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
Universally, the germ precedes the tree, as the tree precedes the seed, in all vegetal growths, from the lowest cryptogam to the lordliest conifer of the Pacific slope.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
On a thunder-blasted tree-top near the western bank sits a lone, stern figure waiting for its lordliest prey—the eagle waiting for the swan.
From Aftermath by Allen, James Lane
