Interestingly, he often meets a goddess/queenlike/mother-type figure. From Wordnik.com. ["Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?"] Reference
But the strange, queenlike girl and her three sisters arrived with the dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Water]
You discern, not without interest, across that dim Révolutionary Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-19] Reference
Almost queenlike looked she, the rich folds of her satin robe giving fullness to her slender form, and glittering as if woven with silver threads. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
She dared not meet him with their queenlike grace. From Wordnik.com. [Helen of Troy and Other Poems] Reference
And thou shalt back them, queenlike, and shalt sweep. From Wordnik.com. [The Stranger at the Gate] Reference
But though her beauty was queenlike, it was not imperious. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
Hilda rose and stood before him erect in all her queenlike beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
The costume was faultless, and fitted to adorn the queenlike woman. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
There was something queenlike and imposing in her movements and whole appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Mohun, or, The last days of Lee and his paladins] Reference
'Oh, dear, no! she takes the whole affair with a queenlike and supernatural indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
The wealthy Julia Tyler was called deemed overly regal or queenlike, but then her successor. From Wordnik.com. [News from www.pantagraph.com] Reference
The apple-woman laughed, and said, To think of the pretty thing talking so queenlike already!. From Wordnik.com. [Mopsa the Fairy] Reference
Reader, mark that queenlike burgher-woman: beautiful, Amazonian-graceful to the eye; more so to the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
There was that in her queenlike gesture and carriage that so impressed them, the men stood as though on parade. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
Foreign Office in London, with beautiful Marguerite Blakeney gliding queenlike on the arm of the Prince of Wales. From Wordnik.com. [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference
She spoke and walked and did all things in a queenlike way, and Jason could see that, for all her youth and childlike size. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference
I suppose she knew I was looking at her; but she showed always a queenlike indifference about what people might think or observe. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
But it had its kind of compensation too; and is now more noble and queenlike to me than all the money in the bank could have made it. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
She did not seat herself in a decided, queenlike manner, and after sitting down pottered too much with her drapery, arranging her petticoats. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2] Reference
Perhaps a man might make himself a little shrine not wholly without sweet savour of pure incense for beautiful, stately, queenlike Hilda Tregellis too!. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
There came a deep flush to her cheek; but she looked full into Giovanni's eyes, and responded to his gaze of uneasy suspicion with a queenlike haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories] Reference
There came a deep flush to her cheek; but she looked full into Giovannis eyes, and responded to his gaze of uneasy suspicion with a queenlike haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Rappaccinis Daughter] Reference
She spoke and walked and did all things in a queenlike way, and Jason could see that, for all her youth and childlike size, Hypsipyle was one who was a ruler. From Wordnik.com. [Part I. The Voyage to Colchis. Chapter IX. The Lemnian Maidens. I. Demeter and Persephone] Reference
Kuehner's Cherdonna Shinatra is so drag-queenlike with her glittering eye makeup, powerhouse legs and soaring hairpiece that you keep looking for the giveaway Adam's apple or. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
And when the Empress rose to depart, certainly my fancy cannot picture a more queenlike image, or one that seemed more in unison with the representation of royal pomp and power. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
‘Oh, dear, no! she takes the whole affair with a queenlike and supernatural indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Naught is such queenlike 1940. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
To your fairy queenlike face. From Wordnik.com. [Resemblance] Reference
How ladylike, how queenlike she appears. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Moved by her speech and queenlike dignity. From Wordnik.com. [National Epics] Reference
With thy starry eyes and thy queenlike brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Head small and queenlike, dainty feet that warm. From Wordnik.com. [In Divers Tones] Reference
O queen, for queenlike hast thou borne thyself. From Wordnik.com. [Atalanta in Calydon] Reference
Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Night's shepherdess sat, queenlike, on her throne. From Wordnik.com. [Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics] Reference
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