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By reducing the value-added tax rate to zero from 5%, Mr. Burnham says he’ll save the average household the princely sum of $60 a year starting in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

India no longer has royals and Awadh, once a princely state ruled by semi-autonomous Muslim nawabs, now exists only as a historical region in central Uttar Pradesh.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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

"You are the Stark in Winterfell, and Robb's heir. You must look princely."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

No house in Venice had held this right for more generations; no house was princelier in its bearing, nor more superbly republican!

From A Golden Book of Venice by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

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

From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

Nearly all the houses had vegetable gardens, and some of them had flower-gardens that appeared princelier pleasaunces to my boy than he has ever seen since in Europe or America.

From A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells

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

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

Did not that position make him a sort of master, at any rate far superior to the princeliest puppet?

From The Cost by David Graham Phillips

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

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

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

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 George William Russell

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

From Red-Robin by Harriet Roosevelt Richards