lordly
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“Gone forever are the mighty herds of the lordly buffalo,” Theodore Roosevelt declared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
The surge ended in the World Series, the lordly Yankees winning in six games, but Mays was on his way and Durocher gave him full credit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Peter Dinklage’s mental patient is a lordly, theatrical Christ, who speaks fondly of opera and England.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
For one thing, his life was already little better than slavery; for all he knew, the lordly stranger on the great horse might be kinder to him than Arsheesh.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
This is but the Ley: I fain would look upon the lordlier Thames.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But he, With lordlier pride of courtesy, Put forth his hand and set her free From pain and humbled pride.
From The Tale of Balen by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Devil and brute Thou dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Thou shalt lie down Undying with the dead, and lordlier there Than all the gold Odysseus' breast can bear, The evil and the strong!
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
Soon will the lordlier summits, here unseen, Gather the night about their nakedness.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
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
Like desert pools that shew the stars Once in long leagues—even such the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers:— Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars!
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine
With snuffle and sniff and handkerchief, And dim and decorous mirth, With ham and sherry, they'll meet to bury The lordliest lass of earth.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
Universally, the germ precedes the tree, as the tree precedes the seed, in all vegetal growths, from the lowest cryptogam to the lordliest conifer of the Pacific slope.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
