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Example sentences for "kingly"

Lexicographically close words:
kingis; kingless; kinglets; kinglie; kingliest; kings; kingship; kingships; kingsman; kini
  1. And wear the signet of his kingly ancestors,' put in Noormahal, seizing her opportunity.

  2. Jehan Aziz still had the green gleam of the kingly emerald on his finger.

  3. As he flung himself angrily once more on the eternal string bed, he felt that the only thing which would satisfy him was the grip upon his finger of a gold circlet set with a green stone, on which was scratched the kingly legend.

  4. The Eagle, the royal bird par excellence, is the embodiment of kingly rule in the heraldic arms of Lagash as early as the time of her first dynasty, and by the time of Gudea (2450 B.

  5. God grant his descendants may be worthy of this kingly fortune, and make a noble use of it!

  6. Viewed in his kingly duty, the conduct of Louis is equally void of blame; unless it be that blame which attaches to a prince, too yielding and mild to defend the just rights of his crown.

  7. The Constitutionalists grieved that their constitution required a monarchical head; the Republicans rejoiced, for it had long been their object to abolish the kingly office.

  8. On the whole, it was the more kingly part not to degrade himself by his own voluntary act, but to await the period which was to close at once his life and his reign.

  9. The wall which surrounds it is over thirty feet in height, and besides serving as a kingly residence, it thus stands as a gigantic fortress.

  10. Cetewayo, creeping out, stood with kingly composure and defiance among the dragoons.

  11. Safeguarding the land and widening its boundaries: restraining the foreign nations by his kingly crown.

  12. When we saw in the hall Of the Hunnish people The gold a-gleaming On the kingly Giukings; I have paid for that faring Oft and fully, And for the sight That then I saw.

  13. A kingly crown glittered almost within his grasp; he had only to venture across the Rubicon of guilt, to place it on his brow.

  14. France, already in a sufficiently electric condition, a wish which was shared by Coligny and the Huguenots; while Catherine nursed the proud hope of seeing all her sons decorated with the kingly title.

  15. Instantly the states composing the Polish kingdom were plunged into the modified anarchy of an interregnum, and various aspirants to the kingly title, starting suddenly into the foreground, added to the general confusion.

  16. But to my thinking that has nothing to do with it; for all who are governors don't come of a kingly stock.

  17. Purple and gold he wore, and those robes and the golden circlet on his head shewed that he had put on the kingly dress to meet with the messenger of a king.

  18. Then tomorrow you must take back as kingly a letter to Ina as he wrote to me, and so return to Owen for as long as your king will suffer you to bide with us.

  19. A regent with kingly power was the expedient which they proposed; and a late instance in Portugal seemed to give some authority and precedent to that plan of government.

  20. They had seen that the long parliament, under color of defence, had begun a violent attack upon kingly power; and after involving the kingdom in blood, had finally lost that liberty for which they had so imprudently contended.

  21. For five years Ashot continued in the exercise of his kingly prerogative, supported by the Armenian nobles, the most powerful of whom he attached by marriage, and enjoying the favour both of the Caliph and of the Emperor.

  22. He is the tried statesman to whom the people look for guidance in the abeyance of the kingly office.

  23. Except in the case of the church of St. Gregory, we have authentic evidence that they are works of the kingly period.

  24. Besides, Mr. Morris was sent whilst the kingly government was in existence, ye end of 91 or beginning of 92.

  25. Thus he treated the brave man in a kingly way, and from that time found him faithful in all things.

  26. The kingly blood in him craved a kingdom.

  27. The kingly supremacy of Judah was here spoken of in words which have been the subject of as prolonged and violent contention as any others in the Word of God.

  28. But to us who have seen the prediction accomplished, it plainly enough points to the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who in His own person combined all kingly qualities.

  29. Oh, little thought I When first my weary feet trod unfamiliar roads In kingly state to be borne to my journey's end.

  30. Ambition, length of days, Revels and kingly rule, All, all has ended thus, all was a dream Dreamed while the millet cooked.

  31. And all this has been done by kingly prerogative alone, without the authority of an Act of Congress.

  32. What other kingly prerogative may not be seized?

  33. The framers of our Constitution naturally refused to vest this kingly prerogative in the President.

  34. The usurpation pivots on nonentity,--always excepting the kingly will of the President, which constitutionally is a nonentity.

  35. Such was the well-known kingly prerogative which our Constitution rejected.

  36. I leave them to your judgment without one word of comment, reminding you only that no President is entitled to substitute his kingly will for the Constitution of our country.

  37. The One-Man Power was set aside, and this kingly prerogative placed under the safeguard of the people, as represented in that highest form of national life, an Act of Congress.

  38. Certainly not; a man’s private domicile is his own castle: no one, with even kingly pretensions, dare force himself over its threshold.

  39. In England and all other monarchies at the time, the treaty-making power was a kingly prerogative, like the power to declare war.

  40. However, a trace of an annual tenure of the kingly office in Assyria may perhaps, as Dr.

  41. M88) At Babylon, within historical times, the tenure of the kingly office was in practice lifelong, yet in theory it would seem to have been merely annual.

  42. M129) In ancient Greece there seems to have been at least one kingly house of great antiquity of which the eldest sons were always liable to be sacrificed in room of their royal sires.

  43. To him as to their sovran was kingly homage done, Whose manhood, as they fancied, the mighty match had won.

  44. To her at length was born a son, a beautiful and kingly child, and great was the wrath of her father when he had tidings of the birth.

  45. A feast and sports were going on when they got there, and beside the king of the land sat Acrisius, an aged man, yet a kingly one indeed.

  46. His resistance, if he was forced to resist, would spring not from any disdain of kingly authority, but from his devotion to an authority higher and more sacred than that of kings.

  47. Again there came the voice and cried: "Dost thou my kingly bribes disdain?

  48. I bribe thee not with crown and throne, Pale spectres they of kingly pow'r!

  49. I hold him to be a mighty prince, whose power is extreme, far above kingly sway.

  50. Lord, you must abandon that kingly firmness of which, under the blows of misfortune, you have shown such perfect proofs?

  51. I have looked over my list of ancestors, from the creation up, and find to my ineffable horror not one of them ever died with any but a noble and kingly disease.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aristocratic; chivalrous; courtly; dignified; ducal; exalted; genteel; gentle; gentlemanly; grand; grave; high; imperial; imperious; imposing; kingly; knightly; ladylike; lordly; magisterial; majestic; monarchical; noble; patrician; princely; purple; queenly; regal; royal; sedate; sober; solemn; sovereign; stately; statuesque; titled; venerable; worthy


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kingly government; kingly power