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They had assiduously saved the cash that came in from gifts and summer jobs, and it had compounded over time to reach a princely sum.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

In northern India's Uttar Pradesh state, a team of workers is carefully restoring a centuries-old royal kitchen that once fed the rulers of the former princely state of Awadh.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

Yes, you can enjoy the principality of Monaco, with its casinos, yachts and Grand Prix, without a princely budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Once part of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, it was known as "garden city" or a "pensioner's paradise".

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

There was less than a dollar in her pocket now left from the princely sum she had withdrawn.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

No house in Venice had held this right for more generations; no house was princelier in its bearing, nor more superbly republican!

From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

Further to add to the complexity, he loved his liberty; he was princelier free; he had more subjects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

Nay, if we compare Pope to some of the later writers who have wrung still princelier rewards from fortune, the result is not unfavourable.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Beverly, boy!—on his white steed, I ween, A princelier presence has never been seen; And as yonder he lies, from the groups all apart, I bow to him loyally,—bow with my heart.

From Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War by Preston, Margaret J.

Nearly all the houses had vegetable gardens, and some of them had flower-gardens that appeared princelier pleasaunces to my boy than he has ever seen since in Europe or America.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean

What are the princeliest of them beside the fiery halls of Tir-na-noge and the flame-built cities of the Gods?

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

If Kemble was the ideal Coriolanus and Henry V., he was too kingly as Hamlet, and Booth is the princeliest Hamlet that ever trod the stage.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

The shade of the princeliest hero dwelling there the 1 Georg. lib. i.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule.

From Agesilaus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Harkness, true to his boast, had found quite the straightest, princeliest balsam in the nearby woods.

From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt