lordly

How To Use lordly In A Sentence

• The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
• Personal ornaments - strap-ends, buckles, brooches, jewellery and the like - suggest that what was true for the lordly classes was true also for the populace as a whole.
• Under its lordly bewitchery, Erastianism prevails in the Established Churches of the kingdom. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
• The camelia is a more lordly flower, Excellency, but for me I like the violets. The Children of the King
• That this power in the church is not despotical, lordly, and absolute. The Sermons of John Owen
• Even these lordly and dismissive gestures clearly cost him something.
• They could shy stones if they could do nothing else; and was not that lordly bronze statue a quite irresistible cockshot? Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
• He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
• Badge of maturity, 12-tined antlers crown a lordly bull elk in Yellowstone; they serve also as formidable weapons.
• How lordly is this man's carriage, and yet how base and servile is his spirit! Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)