Adjective, : a princely entertainment. ,princely manners. ,princely blood. ,his princely self. From Dictionary.com.
Pardon me, your princeliness, but this is all a bit much. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
“Aye, your princeliness,” Deryn said, hauling herself up to get the map. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
Versilov had more than once hinted that this extravagance was not the essence of princeliness, and tried to instil into him a higher conception of it; but Prince Sergay had begun to show signs of resentment at being instructed. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
But the princeliness of his disposition was seen most in his behavior to another friend, the writer of this memoir, who is proud to relate that, with money raised with an effort, Shelley once made him a present of fourteen hundred pounds, to extricate him from debt. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
But the youth was not disposed unnecessarily to blazon his princeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
All the princeliness that lies in clustering curls Julian has lost to-day, for. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
There was a princeliness in his largeness which not seldom landed him into poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Maryland] Reference
The royal blood of England shows itself to one who hath an eye for princeliness of nature. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Caged Lion] Reference
'It is not the wealth or poverty that we heed,' she said, 'but the nobility and princeliness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference
Incomprehensible as he was, one might always be sure of a certain princeliness in his inexplicable methods. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
Has it been, or is it, a true highness, a true princeliness, or only a show of it, consisting in courtly manners and robes of state?. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
It was our desire, in our choice of paint, to do nothing likely to lessen or to detract from the lustre of the princeliness of Mr. Rock's liberality. From Wordnik.com. [The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice] Reference
Without doubt, nothing lends such magnificence to interiors as marbles, but they require the spaciousness and princeliness of such a château to be displayed to advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference
Even then he used to throw money among the gamins, as later he scattered it in how many directions, with what liberality, and with what princeliness, and from what a slender purse!. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
Italy with Baron Stockmar -- everywhere winning the admiration and respect of the best sort of people by the rare princeliness of his appearance, his refined taste, his thoughtful and singularly receptive mind. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood] Reference
The princeliness of youth, the glow of joy and hope overtop and outshine the crown which she wears as lightly as though it were a May-queen's Coronal of roses; and the dignity of simple girlish purity envelops her more royally than velvet and ermine. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood] Reference
Cambridge began very promptly to show him those hospitalities which he could value, and continued the fable of his fairy princeliness in the curiosity of those humbler admirers who could not hope to be his hosts or his fellow-guests at dinner or luncheon. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
Were one asked what aspects of Hamlet does Forbes-Robertson specially embody, I should say, in the first place, his princeliness, his ghostliness, then his cynical and occasionally madcap humour, as where, at the end of the play-scene, he capers behind the throne in a terrible boyish glee. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
A love of luxury, of unwarranted princeliness, and of florid display. From Wordnik.com. [The Street Called Straight] Reference
It is this princeliness that your princess has discovered in you; and the titles she would give you are the signs of it, that she wishes you to wear before the world. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
“Aye, your princeliness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
Your princeliness serves you well. From Wordnik.com. [GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL] Reference
They are small Pizarros in their way -- by the very princeliness of men's geniality stunned into distrust of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
After leaving the University Prince Albert traveled in Switzerland and Italy with Baron Stockmar ” everywhere winning the admiration and respect of the best sort of people by the rare princeliness of his appearance, his refined taste, his thoughtful and singularly receptive mind. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood]
"A Prince," said Chateaudoux, persuasively, "with much territory to his princeliness.". From Wordnik.com. [Clementina] Reference
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