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
“You get knots, right?” could hardly be a tinier change, but many such changes, over many, many hours, smooth her annoyingly ellipsis-crowded writing into a natural, intimate spoken narrative — if always a queenly one.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
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
Now, sweet mistress, will you deign To come with me, to change these cheerless woods For something queenlier?
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
The world is old, It hath sent here none queenlier.
From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker
No dream is mine that does thee less than right: Albeit thy words be wild as warring waves, I know thee higher of heart than shame could smite And queenlier than thy queenship.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
His tales of her declare she condescends; Can share his fires, not always goads and rends: Moreover, quits a throne, and must enclose A queenlier gem than woman's wayside rose.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
Beverley thought her the queenliest beauty in the world.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
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 Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
But those who want that queenliest of flowers may get it for shillings at any time.
From About Orchids A Chat by Frederick Boyle
"I am a good prophet," he assured her, and now he let the suppressed merriment dance at will in his pupils, "but don't forget that a queen's queenliest necessity is—kindness."
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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 Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
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