lordly
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Anthony León is her lyrical tenor fiancé, Ernesto Petti Meg’s lordly loutish jealous husband and Nathan Bowles the loutish Dr. Caius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
When I entered Babylon in a peaceful manner, I took up my lordly abode in the royal palace amidst rejoicing and happiness.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Actually they were the last remains of his lordly inheritance.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The ruins rose from the dust and took once more a stately shape, even lordlier than before.
From Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring
A purer passion, a lordlier leisure, A peace more happy than lives on land, Fulfils with pulse of diviner pleasure The dreaming head and the steering hand.
From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The nobler, the richer, the lordlier inheritance, is yours.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
Our Bateman comes of lordlier and more ancient lineage.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang
This accustomed visitor would seem a gifted vocalist, but for the inevitable comparison between his thinner note and the gushing melodies of the lordlier bird.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars in the country and the Comstock Prize, its highest honor, is awarded only once every five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
His penchant for "lions" always led him to prefer the lordliest among them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
I. Love, loyallest and lordliest born of things, Immortal that shouldst be, though all else end, In plighted hearts of fearless friend with friend, Whose hand may curb or clip thy plume-plucked wings?
From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
So it went lavishing beauty and pity, Lighting the lordliest street of the world With half of the banners that earth has unfurled; Over the lamps that are brighter than stars.
From The New Morning Poems by Alfred Noyes
