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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

His pizzazz was a large measure of his appeal, along with his manufactured image as a shrewd businessman with a kingly touch and infallible judgment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 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

"Well, Robb Stark is my father's bane. Joffrey is mine. Tell me, what do you feel for my kingly nephew?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

"Ah, wait," said Jean-aux-Choux—"wait till you have seen him on a battle-front, and you will be sure that, for all his faults, there never was a more manly man or a kinglier king!"

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Lowell, James Russell

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 Brengle, Col. S. L.

Or is it the rage of stark Edward; the base Unkingly revenge on a kinglier race; The wrong idly wrought on the patriot dead; The dark castle of doom; the scorn-diadem’d head?

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

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

High hope in Balen’s heart alight Laughed, as from all that clamorous fight He passed and sought not Arthur’s sight, Who fain had found his kingliest knight    And made amend for Balen’s wrong.

From The Tale of Balen by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Planets are thy jewels, Stars thy forehead-gems, Set like sapphires gleaming In kingliest anadems; Even the great gold Sun-God, Blazing through the sky, Serves thee but for crest-stone, Jai, jai!

From Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

I tell you he is the kingliest king ever I had to deal with, and the chief I would soonest trust England to.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)