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Nor is it entirely their spending—though that’s bonkers, too, a princely payroll that’s pushing beyond $400 million, or nearly five times what the plucky Guardians pay to field a team in Cleveland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Two years later, he provided invaluable career advice to Bruce Springsteen, who had recently signed to Columbia for the princely sum of $25,000.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

They had assiduously saved the cash that came in from gifts and summer jobs, and it had compounded over time to reach a princely sum.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

Once part of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, it was known as "garden city" or a "pensioner's paradise".

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

The princely clothes he wore were strange to him, the stones he stood on were unfamiliar, the very air he breathed was alien; he was not himself, not the self he had been.

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

Beverly, boy!—on his white steed, I ween, A princelier presence has never been seen; And as yonder he lies, from the groups all apart, I bow to him loyally,—bow with my heart.

From Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War by Margaret J. Preston

For one fleeting night a princelier nature captures us, and we become as great as our aspirations.

From The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Further to add to the complexity, he loved his liberty; he was princelier free; he had more subjects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself.

From The Egoist by George Meredith

Nay, if we compare Pope to some of the later writers who have wrung still princelier rewards from fortune, the result is not unfavourable.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen

But I am of a greater and princelier house than the Sons of the Cat.

From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

Harkness, true to his boast, had found quite the straightest, princeliest balsam in the nearby woods.

From Red-Robin by Harriet Roosevelt Richards

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

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

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland

The shade of the princeliest hero dwelling there the 1 Georg. lib. i.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

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 Henry Graham Dakyns