kingly
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A purchase is theoretically possible and has historic precedents—although expanding one’s territory with gold or other payments has become rarer in modern times as nation states replaced empires and kingly realms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Later they turn to kingly and materialistic protections against their wandering.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
Worn at every coronation since then, it symbolises kingly dignity.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
Some of the lack of enthusiasm might be attributable to the fact that, at 74, Charles has spent the bulk of his life awaiting the kingly role that passed to him upon Elizabeth’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
“Your kingly bearing, your imperious gaze. Your royal regard!”
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The enthroned Republic from her kinglier throne Spake, and her speech was Cromwell's.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But they fail not, the kinglier breed, Who starry diadems attain; To dungeon, axe, and stake succeed Heirs of the old heroic strain.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
But they fail not, the kinglier breed, Who starry diadems attain; To dungeon, axe, and stake succeed Heirs of the old heroic strain.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
Doubtless, they were men cast in a kinglier mould than most men; but their secret was not in themselves.
From When the Holy Ghost is Come by Col. S. L. Brengle
Thy cousin, the trout, in his purple and gold with crimson spots, wears a more splendid armour than thy russet and silver mottled with black, but thine is the kinglier nature.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry Van Dyke
For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
"LAMBERT!" roared the troll in a voice that would have shamed the kingliest of lions.
From Abducted to Oz by Bob Evans
Converted into steel, in masses that would lately have staggered men's thoughts, it becomes the kingliest instrument of peoples for subduing the earth.
From Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 by William C. Kingsley
Even that I hold the kingliest point of all, To brook afflictions well: and by how much The more his state and tottering empire sags, To fix so much the faster foot on ground.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
