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
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
“Unsung Sheroes of the 20th Century,” by the queenly tap dancer Dormeshia, was a historical rescue mission, a tribute to four underrecognized Black predecessors: Cora LaRedd, Mable Lee, Harriet Browne and Juanita Pitts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
Can the world afford him no worthier bride— No bride with a queenlier grace?
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
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
She had lost none of her beauty, but in her rough garb, browned by the sun and wind and sea, she seemed, in Claude's eyes, queenlier than ever.
From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by T. G. Marquis
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
Spencer, if you will consent to take this lead, I will walk among our guests the queenliest woman, in heart at least, to be found in any drawing-room this season.
From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
"Then let the funeral bells be tolled, a requiem 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 Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
Eaux Bonnes and Cauterets are close rivals, but Luchon is the queenliest of the triplet.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
The opening notes of a festival To jubilate the reign of the summer Beauteous, queenliest, rosy-robed comer.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
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