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
A kingly man in rich robes rose when he saw her, and smiled.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Why, he was great of thews—and wise, thou say'st: Yet seems my sire to me the fairer-faced - The kinglier and the kindlier.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
As the spectator stands midway between the two busts, at some distance from both, Irving has the larger and the kinglier air, and the face of Astor seems small and set.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
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
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
"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I'll not pray For gold—; The tanned face, garlanded with mirth, It hath the kingliest smile on earth; The swart brow, diamonded with sweat, Hath never need of coronet.
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
"LAMBERT!" roared the troll in a voice that would have shamed the kingliest of lions.
From Abducted to Oz by Bob Evans
There was nothing vulgar in her—she looked the kingliest of all women.
From A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
