queenly propriety. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : queenly propriety. ,queenly grace. From Dictionary.com.
That night was one of many such evenings in queenly Venice. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
And his goodwill sunned her wild-grown beauty into majesty, into a kind of queenly richness. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Portraits] Reference
I liked the notion of queenly power. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
Am I not fair? am I not queenly as Latona herself?. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Not alone her queenly beauty; but the grace of all her ways. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
You proud, queenly, beautiful woman, how can you be so brave?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
I saw my true love first on the banks of queenly Tay, vol. iii. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
What a neck and throat she had -- what a beautiful queenly manner!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She was a handsome, spirited-looking girl, with a queenly carriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
"Of not finding me at all," -- it came queenly, haughtily from her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
This glowing, brilliant, richly robed, queenly creature -- Madeline!. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
They were about to proceed and leave the body, but the queenly form of. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
But therewithal the queenly daughter of Saturn puts the last touch to war. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Fortune's allotted course; and now shall I go a queenly phantom under the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Victoria, four sons and five daughters found their earliest cradle in her queenly arms. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
'Fair Sultana, pardon my presumption, but methinks I have seen that queenly form before.'. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Her shapely little head was poised upon a long, white throat rising from queenly shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
But in no case is the social-hierarchy aspect of things more central than in a queenly visit. From Wordnik.com. [The Capital And The Queen] Reference
Thrice he essayed either way; thrice queenly Juno checked and restrained him in pity of heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He is since dead, and the people are not unanimous in raising his daughter to the queenly station. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
We come now to our last, our widest question, -- What is her queenly office with respect to the state?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Among the statues, our eye soon singles out the queenly figure of Agrippina seated in her marble chair. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Every girl should know by heart brave Pocahontas, sympathetic Mrs. Stowe, queenly Frances Willard, and kind-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
If anything, she was the more queenly of the two, and might have been bestowing a favor as she handed back the change. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
We cannot determine what the queenly power of women should be, until we are agreed what their ordinary power should be. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Guest's Corky is a triumph, a queenly stereotype invested with such enthusiastic conviction it transcends offensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!] Reference
Her queenly neighbor comes in as the sun rises -- calmly, sweetly, steadily, and all hearts bow to her dignified coming. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
She was good to look at, a queenly woman at fifty-two, with a fresh rosy complexion and carefully curled soft white hair. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Fortunately, the nerves were quickly dispatched by a silent queenly handshake that left no doubt about the need to move on. From Wordnik.com. [Dinner With the Queen] Reference
If thou art a mortal dwelling upon earth, thrice blessed thy father and thy queenly mother, thrice blessed thy dear brothers!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Scotchman hailing from queenly Edinburgh; and still greater was my surprise on hearing a sweetly familiar accent on the lips of a. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
How many times had the girls thought of Ernestine, with her beauty, her grace, and queenly little airs, as being in Congreve Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
She turns, rises slowly and without once glancing toward him begins to pace the length of the room, and he sees that the queenly Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Like the beggar-maid you would entreat to be allowed to go back from queenly glory and pomp to the tatters and contentment of your years. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
We never dreamed that the queenly mother of heroes was nursing 'shopkeepers' now, with only shopkeepers 'ethics,' pawnbrokers 'morality'!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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