How To Use Lordly In A Sentence
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Objection 1: It would seem that Christ can be called a lordly man.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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The kingly or lordly attitude is one way: I make these wonderful objects and don't you come and mess about with them or misunderstand them.
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As soon as we had arrived at this conclusion, I felt so happy in the prospect that I grew quite merry, especially after we had further agreed that, both for the sake of her nerves and for the sake of the lordly surprise, we should bind Connie's eyes so that she should see nothing till we had placed her in a certain position, concerning the preferableness of which we were not of two minds.
The Seaboard Parish, Complete
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The lordly sneer carried him through the ante-room, down the stairs and into the street.
DEATH IN FASHION
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This is not a show that seeks to examine the psychological thrustings that triggered this frantic class-hopping and lordly pleasure-seeking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody had been left indifferent to the lordly distinction with which the American had guided his orchestra and the soloists through what will probably make history as one of Levine's finest Mahler performances, ever.
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The lordly jet-set singer was on his first tour for five years, playing what he called ‘a civilised alternative to Wembley’.
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A lion pride can bring down a water buffalo, and then defend the carcass against hyenas; a lone lion is unlikely to be very lordly, or even well-fed.
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Leicester's famous welcoming of Elizabeth to Kenilworth was perhaps the last spectacular "revel" of its kind to strike the imagination; though we must not fail to remember with gratitude the magnificent Beckford, with his glorious "rich man's folly" of Fonthill Abbey, a lordly pleasure house which naturally sprang from the same Aladdin-like fancy which produced "Vathek.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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He will be merciless in his lordly demands and his political analysis!
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The lordly sneer carried him through the ante-room, down the stairs and into the street.
DEATH IN FASHION
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You would dare -- you, Captain Wilmot, and you, Charlie, and you, Mr. Hannaway, "she added, turning to the third young man," to stand there and tell us all in a lordly way that the Prince is no sportsman, as though that mysterious phrase disposed of him altogether as a creature inferior to you and your kind!
The Illustrious Prince
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Then he calmly took the key, as if the place were his, gave his horse a rackful of long-cut grass, and presented himself, with a lordly aspect, at the front door of the silent inn.
Mary Anerley
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Thus, the claim that "I've kept as yet from thieving pretty free" is undercut by a "stolen" form, or rather one that evokes a high-literate and aristocratic practice of satire, casting the lowly versifier as a clown in lordly clothing.
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All absolute lordly power is in God originally: all lordly magisterial mediatory power is in Christ dispensatorily: all official, stewardly power is by delegation from Christ only in the church guides [93] ministerially, as the only proper subject thereof that may exercise the same lawfully in Christ's name: yet all power, both magisterial in Christ, and ministerial in Christ's officers, is for the
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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‘Contemplating these remains as exhumed from their resting place for unknown ages, we instinctively think of his great and lordly mastery over the beasts,’ he wrote.
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I wish it unsaid, having afterwards seen that it ought not to be said although it may be defended with some reason," i.e. because one might say that He was called a lordly man by reason of the human nature, which this word "man" signifies, and not by reason of the suppositum.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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Above the hearth was a grand portrait of a tall lordly gentleman with dark wavy hair and gentle clear eyes standing besides a young woman with a sweet, pale complexion and sensitive gray eyes.
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Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
The White Company
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After all, most of us can feel pretty lordly after a day or two in such majestic alpine surroundings.
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Nevertheless, both for the Crown and for its aristocratic vassals, castles remained the real power centres throughout the early Middle Ages, combining the functions of stronghold, lordly residence, and barracks.
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But the Earn slips between this seeming obstacle and the spurs of the Ochils, making such haste as it can through carse-like land to join the lordly Tay hard by Abernethy -- the ancient capital of the Southern Picts -- the centre of missionary enterprise, when darkness was thick upon the land after Ninian had died at Whithorn, on the Solway, and before Columba had set foot upon
Chronicles of Strathearn
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The Countess knew this because she had also been there, watching to see if the potential lordly stepping stone discovered himself.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The workers rely on the owner for a fair accounting of wages, and any argument or complaint may result in summary dismissal: banishment from the lordly manor.
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heir to a lordly fortune
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What on earth is going through his head as he makes his bizarre and lordly pronouncements from the pulpit every year.
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And it was a lordly thing to give food to anyone who came.
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The Countess knew this because she had also been there, watching to see if the potential lordly stepping stone discovered himself.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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To save his cash increase, he instead bought a two-acre parcel of land in Vancouver Island, near a luxury retirement village, and built himself a castle surrounded by a lordly, spacious, wilderness landscape.
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But if, when we say "the Man Christ Jesus," we mean a created suppositum, as those who assert two supposita in Christ, this man might be called lordly, inasmuch as he is assumed to a participation of Divine honor, as the Nestorians said.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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So with his coat flapping lordly on either side of him, his hands deep in his trousers pockets, and his hat on the back of his head, he drove at the swing-doors with an outshot chest, and entered with a "breenge.
The House with the Green Shutters
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Peasants could be the clients or followers of lords too: they could seek to exploit lordly power, not just resist it or evade it.
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Good morning," said this lordly gentleman, bringing his horse to a standstill and raising his "gad" to the brim of his hat in a graceful salute.
Viola Gwyn
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Horn, smoking his cigar in lordly indifferent fashion, kept his apparently uninterested eyes glued to each boy who made his way aft, box on shoulder, and stepped out on the land.
Chapter 9
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Yet this self-protective brand of public service was of no account to the Lordly Phantasms.
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But, simple as the house was, it was approached by lordly avenues, shaded with black-jack and sweet gum and chincapin, interwoven with superb magnolias and gorgeous tulip trees.
Winter Evening Tales
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The lodging-houses are of course very numerous, and in every grade, from the humble _jessamy_ or _myrtle_ cottage at 20 or 30 shillings per week, to the lordly mansion at as many guineas.
Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
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The king, his courtiers, and the chief priests being gathered round him, thanksgiving is offered up; and then the lordly beast is knighted, after the ancient manner of the Buddhists, by pouring upon his forehead consecrated water from a chank-shell.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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Now within the palace in the city, as aforetime, lay lordly Alcinous and Arete, the revered wife of Alcinous, and on their couch through the night they were devising plans about the maiden; and him, as her wedded husband, the wife addressed with loving words:
The Argonautica
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The meal itself had but slight pretensions to elegance; there were neither vol au vents, nor croquettes; neither were there poulets aux truffes, nor cotelletes a la soubise but in their place stood a lordly fish of some five-and-twenty pounds weight,
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3
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London, which despises poverty and authorcraft and all mean adventurers, and bows to the lordly merchant, the mighty financier, Redworth's incarnation of the virtues.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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It was rumored that the royal family themselves came there to ask forgiveness for sins as well as take their prayers, and many generations of princes and princesses had been crowned to their lordly positions at the altars there.
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And hence the man Christ, Who is our Lord, cannot be called lordly; yet His flesh can be called "lordly flesh" and His passion the
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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And these censures exercised, not in a lordly, domineering, prelatical way: but in an humble, sober, grave, yet authoritative way, necessary both for preservation of soundness of doctrine, and incorruptness of conversation; and for extirpation of the contrary.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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On the contrary, it usually, when put into plain English, gives us only the name -- often a clumsy and unpronounceable German one -- of some obscure friend of the author, or, as is not unfrequently the case, some lordly patron for whom your closet-naturalist entertains a flunkeyish regard, and avails himself of this means of making it known to his Maecenas.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
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In general, the burdens were heavier in less economically developed areas and lighter in regions where capitalism had penetrated more fully and where regional customs had curbed lordly rights.
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He concluded that, ‘Civilization is a fine thing, and it may spread itself like a green bay tree in the cities, and lordly mansions of the millionaires, with al!’
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Clue #5: The author of this biography is a man who shares a name with a “lordly” English poet.
2006 December « One-Minute Book Reviews
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I was quite successful with my rifle, and, by degrees, became much attached to the versatile life of lordly independence consociate with the loneliness of my situation.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
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A man of the right temperament gains greatly by a temporary estival transplantation; and if Johnny always contrived to seem dominant and prosperous at home, he now seemed lordly and triumphant abroad.
On the Stairs
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The lesser sort appeared in yellow and black dogskin coats, but Kennicott was lordly in a long raccoon ulster and a new seal cap.
Main Street
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Van Horn, smoking his cigar in lordly indifferent fashion, kept his apparently uninterested eyes glued to each boy who made his way aft, box on shoulder, and stepped out on the land.
CHAPTER IX
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The lordly meiny 73 grasped each other by the hand.
The Nibelungenlied
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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)
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Badge of maturity, 12-tined antlers crown a lordly bull elk in Yellowstone; they serve also as formidable weapons.
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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
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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
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Even these lordly and dismissive gestures clearly cost him something.
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That this power in the church is not despotical, lordly, and absolute.
The Sermons of John Owen
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The camelia is a more lordly flower, Excellency, but for me I like the violets.
The Children of the King
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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
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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.
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Here in this broad window, foregathered in a congress of colours designed to appetise, are the ripe fruits of every clime and every season: the Southern pomegranate beside the hardy Northern apple, scarlet and yellow; the early strawberry and the late ruddy peach; figs from the Orient and pines from the Antilles; dates from Tunis and tawny persimmons from Japan; misty sea-green grapes and those from the hothouse -- tasteless, it is true, but so lordly in their girth, and royal purple; portly golden oranges and fat plums; pears of mellow blondness and pink-skinned apricots.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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Between the lines we can read both the appeal of Tao's model to the lordly classes of the sixth century and concern over the difficulties this appeal might pose to the stability of the elite establishment and the state.
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The Quakers' peaceable attitude toward the Indians had long ago wrong-footed them not only with the lordly Penn family and its allies but also with many of the common people who settled on the Pennsylvania frontier.
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Therefore with like reason may Christ be called a lordly man.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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One lordly stag wheeled with antlers high, gazed at our flight, and vanished, leaving us in that dreadful stillness, and a cold eerie wind whined and sighed over us.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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In 1287 the bishop and the king were suing the townsmen for infringing various traditional lordly rights.
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Next to your lordly wall, in dignity of enclosure, comes your close-set wooden paling, which is more objectionable, because it commonly means enclosure on a larger scale than people want.
The Two Paths
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Yet this condition is always annexed to the confederation, that if man be unmindful of the covenant and a contemner of its pleasant rule, he may always be impelled or governed by that domination which is really lordly, strict and rigid, and into which, he who refuses to obey the other [species of rule], justly falls.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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The heads of a household may inhabit a neighbourhood for years without becoming acquainted even with the outward aspect of their neighbours; but in the lordly servants 'halls of the West, or the modest kitchens of Bloomsbury, there will be interchange of civilities and friendly "droppings in" to tea or supper, let the master of the house be never so ungregarious a creature.
Birds of Prey
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In “The Shadow of Years,” Du Bois retold his saga of the Black Burghardts of the Berkshires and of growing up “by a golden river” in Great Barrington, of the lordly Du Boises and his austere paternal grandfather, of the “age of miracles” at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, and of his work in Atlanta.
DARKWATER
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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
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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.
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his lordly manners were offensive
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In “The Shadow of Years,” Du Bois retold his saga of the Black Burghardts of the Berkshires and of growing up “by a golden river” in Great Barrington, of the lordly Du Boises and his austere paternal grandfather, of the “age of miracles” at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, and of his work in Atlanta.
DARKWATER
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The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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There was no harm in him — he had a great aversion to shedding blood: which was something — but, he was a weak, silly, helpless young man, and a mere shuttlecock to the great lordly battledores about the Court.
A Child's History of England
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For in the composing of this lordly book, I never lost nor bestowed any more, nor any other time than what was appointed to serve me for taking of my bodily refection, that is, whilst I was eating and drinking.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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This word reflects the qualities of these conspicuous buildings of the medieval period not simply as the ultimate place of refuge within a fortified complex, but as a proclamation of lordly ambition.
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In general, the burdens were heavier in less economically developed areas and lighter in regions where capitalism had penetrated more fully and where regional customs had curbed lordly rights.
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Our callousness as individuals can hardly be called lordly, though the results are majestic; we accept supreme services, and we accept the supreme sacrifice (Skin for skin: all that a man hath will he give for his life), and we very rarely think fit to growl forth a chance word of thanks.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
