And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule. 4 ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
If Kemble was the ideal Coriolanus and Henry V., he was too kingly as Hamlet, and Booth is the _princeliest_ Hamlet that ever trod the stage. ❋ Various (N/A)
Harkness, true to his boast, had found quite the straightest, princeliest balsam in the nearby woods. ❋ Jane Abbott (N/A)
Something in his manner turned this into the princeliest of compliments. ❋ Unknown (1938)
Did not that position make him a sort of master, at any rate far superior to the princeliest puppet? ❋ Unknown (1904)
What are the princeliest of them beside the fiery halls of Tir-na-noge and the flame-built cities of the Gods? ❋ George William Russell (1901)
In the times which are not ancient history, which some of us still remember, which were our high days of youth, as far down as in the fifties of this present century, there lived in one of the most imposing houses, in one of the princeliest squares of Edinburgh, a lady, who was an old lady, yet still as may be said in the prime of life. ❋ Margaret (1891)
"The kingdom's princeliest youth besiege her ear." ❋ Unknown (1882)
And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)
There slept Tenochtitlan, with her shining temples and blazing towers, her streets and resistless nationality; there were the four lakes, with their blue waters, their shores set with cities, villages and gardens; beyond them lay eastern Anahuac, the princeliest jewel of the Empire. ❋ Unknown (1873)
The Grand Duke is the third brother of the Emperor, is about thirty-seven years old, perhaps, and is the princeliest figure in Russia. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
These pieces of stone, stained and dusty with age, dimly hint at a grandeur we have all been taught to regard as the princeliest ever seen on earth; and they call up pictures of a pageant that is familiar to all imaginations -- camels laden with spices and treasure -- beautiful slaves, presents for Solomon's harem -- a long cavalcade of richly caparisoned beasts and warriors -- and Sheba's ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
But in the moonlight, her fourteen centuries of greatness fling their glories about her, and once more is she the princeliest among the nations of the earth. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Surely it must be the princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
King and the Court, so she was strenuous to have her clothed in the richest stuffs, wrought upon the princeliest pattern, and set off with jewels; but in that she had to be disappointed, of course, Joan not being persuadable to it, but begging to be simply and sincerely dressed, as became a servant of God, and one sent upon a mission of a serious sort and grave political import. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
