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Example sentences for "regal"

Lexicographically close words:
regain; regained; regaining; regains; regaird; regale; regaled; regales; regali; regalia
  1. He spoke with admiration of the architectural grandeur and symmetry of the regal mansion.

  2. He was received by the Emperor with distinguished marks of attention and kindness, but not with regal honors.

  3. It was likewise an invariable custom, for the heir to receive the regal investiture immediately upon the decease of his sire.

  4. This divan was elevated at one end of a spacious arbor, formed by an avenue of regal palms, which in brave state, held aloft their majestical canopy.

  5. When stripping from the body the regal girdle, the victor wound it round his own loins; thus proclaiming himself king over Juam.

  6. The regal bearing of these personages, the deference paid them, and their entire self-possession, not a little surprised me.

  7. But in the second parliament of that year, when they proceeded fiercely against those who had written or preached in defence of the regal power; he was the first that fled, went over into France, and there continued eleven years.

  8. The hat was the only item of the judge's regal attire of which the Wilbur twin was honestly envious--it was so beautiful, so splendid, so remote.

  9. She stood amid exotic splendour, and was no longer herself but some regal creature in the Sunday supplement of a great city paper.

  10. He saved his land, but did not lay his soldier trappings down To change them for a regal vest and don a kingly crown.

  11. There is a correspondence between Washington and an old friend, Stuart, of Virginia, who had told him that the people of that State accused him of "regal manners.

  12. The Regal Fritillary= Argynnis idalia The Regal Fritillary, fresh from the chrysalis, still showing the marvelous sheen of its iridescence, furnishes one of the most beautiful exhibitions of color in the world of nature.

  13. The Regal Fritillary is one of the largest butterflies of the distinctive group to which it belongs.

  14. Like the other Argynnids, the Regal Fritillary is single-brooded during the year and it has a rather remarkable longevity in each stage of its life.

  15. An air of regal splendour, an almost imperial assumption, was observed in the arrangements of the fête.

  16. The Alhambra was finished, and there the Duke of St. James entirely resided; but its regal splendour was concealed from the prying eye of public curiosity with a proud reserve, a studied secrecy, and stately haughtiness becoming a caliph.

  17. The malady which made him incapable of performing his
    regal functions.

  18. Fortunately it lifted just before the arrival of the vice-regal carriage containing the Duchess and Lady Dufferin, which took up its position by the royal standard.

  19. Government has replaced many of these, and restored a whole corner which was removed by this regal robber; but, though exactly the same when examined closely, the general effect looks coarse beside the original.

  20. The interior is as grand, One stupendous regal hall, divided by arches on either side to break the otherwise oppressive size.

  21. I felt that it could not but be an additional shock to the regal pride of such a woman that these little maidens should have been permitted to act forcibly on her destiny.

  22. Opera to-night,' she answered my inquiries for him, admonishing me by her tone that I ought not to be behindhand in knowing his regal rules and habits.

  23. The ceiling of the Anté sala is most charming, a brilliant moresque style, admirably painted and of quite regal magnificence, one of the best specimens of artesonada.

  24. The regal staircase, surely the widest of the world, ends in the void.

  25. Ever since I became connected with the New York city press, some thirty odd years ago, scarcely a season has passed during which one or more specimens of the Regal walnut caterpillar (Citheronia regalis), shown in Fig.

  26. Since God, through his divine goodness, has given us regal power and authority, let us do his holy will, which is nothing else than to do good to all men, and especially to those committed to our protection.

  27. By this means they would visit the sins of the tyrant upon his head, and, at the same time, restore the regal honors to their line.

  28. Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not remember her regal glories without regret.

  29. Among the regalia treasured up in a secret chamber were twenty-five regal crowns of fine gold, garnished with jacinths, amethysts, diamonds, and other precious stones.

  30. He was arrayed in robes of gold brocade; his sandals were embroidered with pearls and diamonds; he had a sceptre in his hand, and he wore a regal crown resplendent with inestimable jewels.

  31. He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied him to the camp, and, laying aside his regal crown, he knelt with head uncovered, and confessed his sins before the holy man.

  32. He was at length induced to stifle his repugnance and repair to the court, but he went in almost regal style and with a splendid retinue, more like a sovereign making a progress through his dominions.

  33. A mountain-top is a suitable regal seat, and perhaps the only safe one.

  34. Two Italian sovereigns assume a regal title from Sardinia and Sicily.

  35. The Greek historians of the age of the Antonines observe, with a malicious pleasure, that although the sovereign of Rome, in compliance with an obsolete prejudice, abstained from the name of king, he possessed the full measure of regal power.

  36. To each was assigned, by the public, a guard, and a council of a hundred persons, and the first of the princes appears to have enjoyed a preeminence of rank and honor which sometimes tempted the Romans to compliment him with the regal title.

  37. The vitax, or eighteen most powerful satraps, were permitted to assume the regal title; and the vain pride of the monarch was delighted with a nominal dominion over so many vassal kings.

  38. With the senators, Carinus affected a lofty and regal demeanor, frequently declaring, that he designed to distribute their estates among the populace of Rome.

  39. There have never, so far as is known, been regal or state mints established in the Channel Islands, with the exception of the strange venture by Colonel Smyth in the reign of King Charles I.

  40. But it is historically true that in the regal period of Rome the kings were the supreme judges in all civil and criminal matters.

  41. And yet, with all its regal splendor and magnificence, he inhabited it only a few weeks in each year.

  42. Further conversation between then had ceased because Mrs. Grant swept into the room, regal even in the face of death.

  43. Dick provided her with a victoria and horse in place of the usual doctor's trap, and she could drive abroad to visit this or that protégé in truly regal style.

  44. The lust of regal and conjugal pride, intermixed, works in both.

  45. For a few moments, everything in the room seemed faded and cold, in contrast with the tropical atmosphere of this regal beauty.

  46. Yet, to show the king that the regal power incurred no great risk in them, he laid down one principle, which could not have been unpleasing to Charles II.

  47. The system was equally desirable to the Protector Cromwell as to the regal Charles.

  48. I believe he imitated the wisdom of some other princes, who have sometimes been persuaded by their servants to disguise several others in the regal garb, that the enemy might not know in the battle whom to single.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advantageous; aristocratic; auspicious; beneficial; benevolent; bonny; braw; capital; cogent; commendable; courtly; dignified; disdainful; distinguished; elegant; estimable; excellent; expedient; fair; famous; favorable; fine; good; goodly; grand; grave; healthy; helpful; imperial; imperious; imposing; kind; kingly; laudable; lofty; lordly; magisterial; magnificent; majestic; monarchical; nice; noble; palatial; pleasant; plush; princely; profitable; purple; queenly; regal; royal; sedate; skillful; sober; solemn; sound; sovereign; splendid; state; stately; statuesque; sumptuous; useful; valid; venerable; virtuous; worthy