queenly
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Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
So I tried to be as queenly as possible, coming from one queen to see some more queens tonight.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
She had no dragon with her, and her raiment was hardly queenly.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
They may even be queenlier now than they were in 2020; at times I thought they seemed over-primed by the time off.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
"Better wait until they get their crowns on," suggested Kitty, "they'll look a heap queenlier then."
From Marjorie's Maytime by Carolyn Wells
Can the world afford him no worthier bride— No bride with a queenlier grace?
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
The world is old, It hath sent here none queenlier.
From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker
And then I heard—ah! ne'er was known Such judgment without malice, Nor queenlier council ever heard In senate, house or palace!—
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
He was the prince of scholars; a memory of superlative power waiting, as submissive handmaid, on the queenliest imagination.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
"Sable—fur, you know, the richest, softest, queenliest fur there is."
From The Miller Of Old Church by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Come, let the burial rite be read—the funeral song be sung: An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young, A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Could Music rescue thus from Soul's profound, Give feeling immortality by sound,436 Then were she queenliest of Arts!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
Love first chose, Then prayed—"No, lily-white—or, both provide;" And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed, And "lily-white"—the queenliest flower that blows.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold
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