Heir to a lordly fortune. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : lordly contempt. ,lordly manners. From Dictionary.com.
How lordly is this man's carriage, and yet how base and servile is his spirit!. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
It all adds up to a kind of lordly presumption, a glorious hog of the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals] Reference
Hence, since we say "lordly" denominatively from lord, it cannot truly and properly be said that this Man is lordly, but rather that He is Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Have something you call lordly honour; pray. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini] Reference
The all-lordly wife to the Danes straightly wended. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Bob was now a lordly senior at Dr. Dudley's Academy. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
"I'll see, I'll think it over," said Trampy, in a lordly tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
But Tennyson's was not by any means "the lordly mastiff's port.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Grumbling over lordly governments is as old as Brazil, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Time to Say 'Enough'?] Reference
Mr. Wakefield Smith was strolling down the street in a lordly way when. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
And then, a bit lordly, a bit condescendingly, he offered to amend his statement. From Wordnik.com. [Frazier vs. Ali in Cleveland] Reference
The lordly elk nourishes here and numbers of them may be seen at almost any time of day. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
It's a mean-streets tactic viewed with disdain by the lordly federal prosecutors of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Laying Down The Law] Reference
The place itself was a spacious square paved with marble, and surrounded with lordly temples. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
His lordly yet compassionate briefings are as legendary as his brilliant flanking maneuver in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarzkopf For President?] Reference
In the interview, his manner was not stiff or lordly; if anything, he seemed humble, even vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference
Even lordly Father Wyandotte himself stalked along a little faster than usual, and I guess the Big Gold. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Louis XIII. 's lordly minister, Cardinal Richelieu, was a great public interest of those times in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Why, we'll have all the tradesmen of Portsea struggling for your lordly custom if we stop here much longer!. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
The wages of the laborer were fixed by law to the great advantage of the lordly employer: this, however, was. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When they entered they saw as usual no one, but they beheld a lordly palace all lighted and the doors wide open. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
He had among his clients one fast, even madly extravagant youth, heir of an historic name and of a lordly estate. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
These men of clay and lordly air, claim rights superior to the State, despising the State provision for education. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
He can be companionable, and is genuinely curious about people, but he can come off as a little lordly and self-regarding. From Wordnik.com. [To Argue or Not to Argue] Reference
We're whisked through a dizzying array of cinematic vistas -- lordly manors, sunlit Cumbrian waterfalls, English churchyards. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: BETTER THAN SEX] Reference
Our party of friends entered the lordly vestibule, and lifting the heavy mat that hung over the door-way they passed through. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
There were, I take it, land smugglers in control of the operations who shared on a more lordly scale with their brethren in the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
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