lordly

“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 lordly NFL could be brought to heel, either with a 10-figure payment or a trial in which Kroenke and Goodell could squirm uncomfortably on the witness stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

Peter Dinklage’s mental patient is a lordly, theatrical Christ, who speaks fondly of opera and England.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

Ogion had given him decent Gontish leggings and shirt and vest of leather and linen to replace his Osskilian finery, but Ged had kept for his winter journey the lordly cloak lined with pellawi-fur.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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 Euripides by Euripides

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

Our Bateman comes of lordlier and more ancient lineage.

From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang

Love's a divinity that speaks    'Awake Sweetheart!' and straightway breaks    A lordlier light than sunshine's glow,    A sweeter life than mortals know.

From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

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

At the Congress of Rastatt her envoys disposed of German duchies and bishoprics in the lordliest way.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

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