Kinglike

As the village guest, I was treated with grand hospitality and kinglike esteem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His waist grew to more than 45 inches, later in his life, and so he developed these sleeves padded with sawdust so as to broaden his shoulders and distract from his waistline, so he could go on looking massive and kinglike. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

Why did he want kinglike powers which any fool had to know were unconstitutional? ❋ Unknown (2009)

“She speaks ever kinglike, and kinglike will I answer her, so she bring no request unworthy herself or me.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hakim, thou hast chosen thy boon; and though I had rather thou hadst asked my crown jewels, yet I may not, kinglike, refuse thee. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“With the balls of his father,” Fergie said ultimately, reasserting himself with a kinglike nod. ❋ Chuck Hogan (2004)

'I had thought that there had been men who were kinglike,' he answered, 'but it may be as thou sayest. ❋ Unknown (1962)

He who had thought to rule without the sacrifice, who had never felt the god's breath that lifts a man beyond himself, had nothing to take him kinglike to the dark house of Hades. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

For here, to the observant eye, was a more zealous person, already passion-wasted, and a far more dictatorial and stiff-necked person than the lazy and amiable King; also, this Maudelain's face and nose were somewhat too long and high: the priest was, in a word, the less comely of the pair by a very little, and to an immeasurable extent the more kinglike. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

For here, to the observant eye, was a more zealous person, already passion-wasted, and ineffably a more dictatorial and stiff-necked being than the lazy and amiable King; also, this Maudelain's face and nose were somewhat too long and high; and the priest was, in a word, the less comely of the pair by a very little, and by an infinity the more kinglike. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

“Since, in common life, the nobleman is hampered by no limits: since kings, or kinglike figures do not differ from him, he can everywhere advance with a silent consciousness, as if before his equals, everywhere he is entitled to press forward; whereas nothing more beseems the burgher than the quiet feeling of the limits that are drawn round him. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The writer of a great book, however, does not occupy a position so kinglike in its loneliness as does gentleman a gypsy, round whom flock the gitanos to kiss his hand and garments as if he were a god or a hero. ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)

But kinglike and imperative through the quietness of Casa Grande I hear the call of my beloved little _tenor robusto_ -- and if it is the voice of hunger it is also the voice of hope! ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

I do not wish to build on to my experience, and I do not want it marred by finding Jasper less commanding and kinglike than he was on that spring time Sabbath that afternoon of '78. ❋ William Eldridge (1908)

And when Etain of the Fair Hair came to the bed where Osgar was lying, and saw the way he was, and that the great kinglike shape he had was gone from him, greyness and darkness came on her, and she raised pitiful cries, and she went to her bed and her heart broke in her like a nut; and she died of grief for her husband and her first love. ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)

He was dead, as they would all soon be, and the couch was purple and kinglike. ❋ Duffield Osborne (1887)

It was certain that he did the great English king, Athelstane, who had fostered him, credit, for he was in all ways most kinglike even now. ❋ Unknown (1884)

They are monarchical and kinglike in their characteristics. ❋ Unknown (1879)