princely
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Nor is it entirely their spending—though that’s bonkers, too, a princely payroll that’s pushing beyond $400 million, or nearly five times what the plucky Guardians pay to field a team in Cleveland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
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
The stripping of a princely title is so rare in British royal-legal history that the last person it happened to was Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
"Nitwits!" exclaimed Jemmy, as if his own princely patience were at an end.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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 Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
For one fleeting night a princelier nature captures us, and we become as great as our aspirations.
From The World I Live In by Helen Keller
But I am of a greater and princelier house than the Sons of the Cat.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
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 William Dean Howells
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 Henry Graham Dakyns
He was at his princeliest estate—never would he be handsomer.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
Madam," said the professor, with his princeliest smile, "the true Art cannot fail.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
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 William Rounseville Alger
Did not that position make him a sort of master, at any rate far superior to the princeliest puppet?
From The Cost by David Graham Phillips
