queenly
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Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
So I tried to be as queenly as possible, coming from one queen to see some more queens tonight.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
“Making Soap” shows a queenly woman on a thronelike chair, overlooking a bubbling kettle on an open fire.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
For one thing, the problem of determining how much is queen and how much queenly radiation.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
They may even be queenlier now than they were in 2020; at times I thought they seemed over-primed by the time off.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
Now, sweet mistress, will you deign To come with me, to change these cheerless woods For something queenlier?
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
Rounder, and queenlier, and more fair Her form grew, and her golden hair Fell yearly richer at the master's side.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman
His tales of her declare she condescends; Can share his fires, not always goads and rends: Moreover, quits a throne, and must enclose A queenlier gem than woman's wayside rose.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
No dream is mine that does thee less than right: Albeit thy words be wild as warring waves, I know thee higher of heart than shame could smite And queenlier than thy queenship.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Then let the funeral bells be tolled, a requiem be sung, An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young; A dirge for her—the doubly dead, in that she died so young."
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
Look at these ancient States, the queenliest queens of earth.
From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker
The opening notes of a festival To jubilate the reign of the summer Beauteous, queenliest, rosy-robed comer.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young— A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
There, now, that is very kind of you, grandmamma, and194 you are just the dearest, sweetest and queenliest lady that ever made a poor girl happy, when she was, in fact, homesick as death.
From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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