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
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
High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star system, her singing sliced through polished arrangements like a sharpened blade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
Faramir had sent for this robe and had wrapped it about her; and he thought that she looked fair and queenly indeed as she stood there at his side.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
And then I heard—ah! ne'er was known Such judgment without malice, Nor queenlier council ever heard In senate, house or palace!—
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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
The world is old, It hath sent here none queenlier.
From A Lover's Diary, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker
Beverley thought her the queenliest beauty in the world.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
But those who want that queenliest of flowers may get it for shillings at any time.
From About Orchids A Chat by Frederick Boyle
He was the prince of scholars; a memory of superlative power waiting, as submissive handmaid, on the queenliest imagination.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
It was filled to overflowing with the youth of the neighborhood, and Agnes Farwell, Joe's niece, the queenliest of them all, was leading the dance, her dark face aglow, her deep brown eyes alight.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
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
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