princely

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Madam," said the professor, with his princeliest smile, "the true Art cannot fail.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.

And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule.

From Agesilaus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

What are the princeliest of them beside the fiery halls of Tir-na-noge and the flame-built cities of the Gods?

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

He was at his princeliest estate—never would he be handsomer.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

If Kemble was the ideal Coriolanus and Henry V., he was too kingly as Hamlet, and Booth is the princeliest Hamlet that ever trod the stage.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various