How To Use Princely In A Sentence

Cottier and Company have converted into a place of princely but peaceful splendor.
Cabinets of coins, medals, and bronze statuettes became a characteristic feature of German princely collections.
We were given the run of a sauna (which had a tea room) and access to a swimming pool for three hours, for the princely sum of $25.
I was earning the princely sum of 5,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times
In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination.

For his first book he received the princely sum of $ 400.
Rigg leapt to his feet and let out a boyish, privick, unprincely hoot of happiness. Pathfinder
On the other hand since the system of the patronage of the arts had collapsed and foreign rulers were not interested in taking over the responsibility, the role of the princely states became crucial.
I never went on some crazy adventure, this lumbering failure of a journey not included, I never got to do any distinctly princely duties…
The drivers want £7.00 an hour (they currently earn the princely sum of £6.20 an hour).
In the second act Louis, one of the princely lackeys, brings a large cracknel and huge paper-cornet of sweets for Cornelia, whom he courts and whose favor he hopes in this way to win. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
It was well worth the princely sum I paid for it.
I recently made a Pension Credit application for an 83-year-old widow and after numerous telephone calls and a personal interview, she was awarded the princely sum of £2.05.
Giovanni, married a dissolute woman of low birth called Livia, and disgraced the name of Medici by the unprincely follies of his life. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
They are on the market for the princely sum of £1.4 million and £1.6 million respectively and were open to public viewing on Saturday.
A pair of plimsolls - we used to call them gutties - was purchased for the princely sum of 10, and the kindly police officers then drove him back to the stadium in plenty of time for the match.
'princedom', above his 'princely handicraft' by virtue of 'humanity'? Selected Essays
These displays soon became celebrated as exemplars of enlightened princely patronage and magnificence.
For the 18 rounds he was paid the princely sum of 65p. The Sun
The Winchester Model 21, which is by no stretch of the imagination a fine gun, brings very serious money, and the engraved and inlaid versions command princely sums, even though the engraving and inlaying is done at a third-grade-art-class level. Why Big-Dollar Guns Are Worth The Money
Shang that he received extraordinary rank; just as, in very much later days, the Confucius family was the only non-Manchu to possess "ducal" rank, or, as the Japanese seem to hold in German style, "princely" rank. Ancient China Simplified
Lately there was another hunt for an heir to another princely house, and one was found who was circumstanced about as the Gaikwar had been. Following the Equator, Part 5
I was earning the princely sum of 5,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times
However, seraph may come from a root meaning "princely," applied in Da 10: 13 to Michael [Maurer]; just as cherub comes from a root (changing m into b), meaning "noble." twain -- Two wings alone of the six were kept ready for instant flight in Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
My salary was cut to the princely sum of £15 a week.
What his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I have missingly noted, he is of late much retired from court and is less frequent to his princely exercises than formerly he hath appeared. The Winter’s Tale
a princely bearing
Her father Nawab Hamidullah Khan was the ruler of second most important Muslim princely state after Hyderabad.
Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms.
Benevento, too, with its princely palatium and court, was another place where power was contested between families whose roots lay in many different parts of the southern territory.
Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum.
A stormstayed traveller," he said, his eyes fawning, "who has stumbled on this princely hospitality. The Path of the King
Shifting from one cramped position to another, she caught a glimpse of Malcolm, looking very princely in his crown and royal robes.
At 60 I was given the princely sum of 9 pence per week which has now gone up to 10 pence per week.
The general, accompanied by his staff and eight thousand soldiers, then entered that lovely little spot, called Gotha, to visit the talented and princely duke and duchess. Frederick the Great and His Family
Our six days camping at the Galmpton Touring Park cost us the princely sum of £48 for the tent, air beds and sleeping bag included, £57 for the pitch.
Under the ancien régime these two powerful groups had often blocked princely attempts to rationalize and centralize the administration.
On a serious note, Acosta adds, "Most difficult to take in was that princely roles were only danced by the blue-eyed, blond males and not dark-skinned ones - even in Cuba."
Note that all of the above were very young at the time and were highly touted prospects who commanded princely transfer fees. Times, Sunday Times
In villages such as Butchl Bag, in the parched fields west of Karachi, these workers - paid the princely sum of £14 a month - provide a crucial link between rural populations and hospitals.
Besides the great princely orders, the late Middle Ages witnessed the foundation of many lesser knightly orders or confraternities with their own regulations and special devices.
Even then, the term sumptuousness may seem ill-chosen, since the nomadic nature of African life persists in spite of palaces and chamberlains and all the elaborate ritual of the Makhzen, and the most pompous rites are likely to end in a dusty gallop of wild tribesmen, and the most princely processions to tail off in a string of half-naked urchins riding bareback on donkeys. In Morocco
Villers-Cotterets, he has revived the captainry; there are more than sixty places for sale on account of these princely annoyances.] [Footnote 1355: The old peasants with whom I once have talked still had The Ancient Regime
The cook in the well-equipped princely kitchen had to know how to use dozens of different pieces, from the maccaroni iron a row of circular blades combined into a kind of rolling pin that could be run over a sheet of dough to cut it into strips, to the newfangled triple spit-turner. Delizia!
Luckily, Hostile Waters ***** is available from the well-recommended Good Old Games website for the princely sum of $6, in a version that is friendly to Vista. Archive 2009-10-01
The robe, the pujari said, is replaced every year by the former princely family of Kolhapur.
So dynastically speaking, he seems to meet princely criteria. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Cartoons that Shook the World Won’t Shake the World in This Book:
A Princely Collection in Prague The story seems almost a fairy tale -- that someone who grew up in America, spoke only what he calls "survival Czech" at home, and was working in Boston real estate should become an acknowledged Czech prince and chatelain of one of Europe's most glorious private art collections. Twice Stolen, Now Returned:
I think some remuneration, not a princely sum, will produce a wider field of applicants next time. Times, Sunday Times
Conflicting ambitions and personal bickering meanwhile kept princely and noble warlords divided, while their willingness to let the Spaniards ravage frontier provinces sapped any wider support they might have hoped for.
In addition the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has thrown in his two penn'orth by insisting that parade organisers employ marshals to man the route at the princely sum of £50 per day per marshal. Remembrance Day Parades Under Threat
What his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown; but I have missingly noted he is of late much retired from court, and is less frequent to his princely exercises than formerly he hath appeared. Act IV. Scene I. The Winter’s Tale
After one phone call to the local council and the handing over of the princely sum of 10, it is ours for a year. Times, Sunday Times
She is the patron goddess of the Maharajas, or princely rulers, of Bikaner, a city 30 km north of Deshnoke that was founded in the 1480s.
And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
We were walking into the heart of enemy territory for the princely and princessly sum of nine sovs each. Sir Apropos of Nothing
This is so because of a loophole that permits U.S. Cubans to send as much as $1, 200 a year (a princely sum in Cuba) to relatives in this country.
My savings had now reached the princely sum of ￡30.
Not such a princely sum that we deserve a hefty tax bill simply because we have been good savers, surely? Times, Sunday Times
Of the five small kingdoms or princely states which the author explores in this fascinating Himalayan odyssey, only Nepal and Bhutan are fully independent nations.
princely manner
Highness upon his princely _podex_, that it would have melted the heart of a stone. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
The princely sum of 125,000. Times, Sunday Times
Also passing higher vp by the banke of Nilus, there is to bee seene a fayre Citie ouerflowed with water, the which at such time as Nilus floweth lyeth vnder water, but when the water returneth to the marke, there plainely appeare princely palaces, and stately pillars, being of some called Thebes, where they say that Pharao was resident. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
I am receiving a meagre state pension: the princely sum of 18 pence a week.
Members of the princely families are the first class citizens.
Some said if I tried to give them Duck Island, they wouldn't accept it and that the princely sum of $3.00 / acre that I paid for it was far too much.
In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom.
The Liechtenstein princely treasures represent Europe's greatest surviving royal art collection, after that of the British.
His last jaunt to Bermuda cost the princely sum of 27.50 a night.
Mansart himself made way with the old _tourelles_ and the balustrade which rounded off the angles of the walls of the main buildings and substituted a series of heavy, ugly _maisonettes_, more like the bastions of a fortress than any adjunct to a princely dwelling. Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Born in the princely family of Kilimanoor near Thiruvananthapuram, Raja Ravi Varma was closely associated with the ruling house of the State of Travancore from the age of 14.
Upon this object, centred all princely honours; he was by Augustus adopted for his son, assumed Colleague in the Empire, partner in the jurisdiction tribunitial, and presented under all these dignities to the several armies: instances of grandeur which were no longer derived from the secret schemes and plottings of his mother, as in times past, while her husband had unexceptionable heirs of his own, but thenceforth bestowed at her open suit. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
They paid me the princely sum of 50 p.
They paid the princely sum of one shilling to queue up on the narrow staircase and head downstairs into a room filled with the noise of revelling mop-headed boys and coltish girls with pale-painted mouths and thick, black eyelashes.
Ludovisi died in 1632; he was of a princely family with a large patrimony, and he made provision in his will for the college; it was to have an income of one thousand crowns a year; a house was to be purchased for it; and he left a vineyard as Castel Gandolfo where the students might pass their villeggiatura. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The princely sum of 125,000. Times, Sunday Times
Note that all of the above were very young at the time and were highly touted prospects who commanded princely transfer fees. Times, Sunday Times
Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms.
Just as her advancement of Essex in the early 1590s can be seen partly as a move to create a counterbalance to Burghley, so her promotion of Cecil was intended to dent Essex's political pretensions and remind him of her princely authority.
For the 18 rounds he was paid the princely sum of 65p. The Sun
He explains the origin of this economic achievement in the concentration of big spending consumers in royal and princely capital cities, such as London and Paris.
It was of gigantic size, it was of princely splendor and the wood carving on the completely gilded outside was so elaborate and varied that the surface seemed to be alive.
Countreyes, or of the priuiledges graunted by his Maiestie to our merchants, that he may by aduertisement treat with your Lordshippe thereupon: which we by reason of our great princely affayres can not so conueniently at all times doe with such expedition as the cause may require. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
India's 565 "princely states"—the realms of once omnipotent, sometimes semisacred rulers—were gradually brought under the control of the British East India Company, beginning in the mid-18th century; most had yielded by 1818. Conspicuous Consumption
The title chosen by Earl Grosvenor for his marquisate is, at all events, appropriate; for it is from within the boundaries of the fair City of Westminster that the largest portion of the princely rent-roll of the family is derived.
And young activists can win the princely sum of ￡100 if they come up with the winning slogan.
_saltarello_, and perhaps might have done so if we had been in less princely presences. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
The most ample refreshments, both in the Oriental and after the European fashion, were spread before the royal and princely guests of Saladin, each in their own separate pavilion; and so attentive was the Soldan to the habits and taste of his visitors, that Grecian slaves were stationed to present them with the goblet, which is the abomination of the sect of Mohammed. The Talisman
Not such a princely sum that we deserve a hefty tax bill simply because we have been good savers, surely? Times, Sunday Times
Hereditary descent was accepted throughout the British Isles, but primogeniture was slower to win general acceptance, and all lordships remained vulnerable at the moment of transmission, not least royal and princely ones.
What I ought to know by now is that they think we already have one and they are it and they are appalled and affronted that there are people who don't agree and don't plan to just go along with their princely and princessly dreams. Lance Mannion:
They were advertised for the princely sum of $16.95 and even a young squirt like me could afford one at that price.
She acquired the painting at a jumble sale for the princely sum of 25p.
His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand. Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
If you think pensions are a bit of a yawn, you might change your mind if you leave it until you are 63 and discover that your pension is worth the princely sum of about £50 per week.
The Duke simulated his profound regret, but when Louis 'back was turned made a most unprincely and most uncourtly grimace at his royal uncle, which set them all a-laughing. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
It started out as an all-right job: My best friend worked there with me, and at that time in my life, $6.75 an hour was a princely sum.
But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the regime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
Deliberate assistance to economic growth went hand in hand with administrative reform aimed at channelling its profits firmly into princely treasuries.
'Wicked sons have sprung from the noble race of David, and princes ought not to disgrace themselves by unprincely vices.' Life of Luther
And for that our princely, and secret affaires were not finished to our contentation at our time appointed according to our expectation, we doe now leaue of all these matters, and set them aside for the time, because our minde is nowe otherwise changed, but hereafter when occasion shall mooue vs to the like, wee will then talke of those matters againe. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It showed a man of serious bearing, and brought to mind the princely guildsman of the Middle Ages. Gänsemännchen. English
He held his head high and regal, and all of the distinguished princely magnificence was back in his bearing as he marched toward the field.
For myself, I wasn't allowed to buy that book, in part because it cost, I believe, the princely sum of $14.95, but also because of the scantily clad women who threatened to ensorcel my heart, if not other pieces of my anatomy. RIP Frank Frazetta
This was the Prince whom, we may remember, Sidonia had whipped with her irreverent hands upon his princely _podex, _ when he was a little boy. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
Above the imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely bicephalous eagle.
For these four folio volumes of patient industry, Gould received the princely sum of $50!
It'll cost them the princely sum of seventy-five pounds.
The other lesson he accordingly wishes to bring home to the rulers of his age is that, in addition to having a sound army, a prince who aims to scale the heights of glory must cultivate the right qualities of princely leadership.
First I want to give you a short overview of the history and types of Scotland castle you are likely to come across, ranging from small 15th century towers and fortalices to massive fortifications and princely or royal palaces.
As a lad, I used also to cycle to the stadium and leave my bike in someone's back yard for the princely sum of one old penny.
Very princely of him to surprise her with a freshly mowed lawn.
Nor would the unprincely wretch marry her till he was in possession of the crown, that he might not be supposed to owe it to her claim. Clarissa Harlowe
Now I don't know if this is a mistake or what, but I just spotted that you can download all nine of Ralph Vaughan Williams 'symphonies from the iTunes UK music store for the princely sum of £7.99 - that's 7.5 hours at about £1 per hour! Archive 2005-12-01
Her favourite punt was a Three Cross; three fourpenny doubles and a fourpenny treble, the princely sum of one shilling and fourpence being the stake.
Since Thanjavur became a British residency in 1885 and the rulers were not granted a privy purse, the palace has nothing of the sweep and dimensions of the other grander princely houses in the country.
The prince does not dress himself and a male staffer, different from the one who shaves him every morning, was there to drape and undrape the substantial princely body. Richard Carlson: Money Talks
Not many of them know that there were 93 princely States when India became free.
In place of illustrated problems, he combined aspects of the De regimine principium, a contemporary treatise on princely rule composed by the Augustinian Egidius Romanus,274 with a historic account of the chessboard and commentaries on each chess piece. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
After one phone call to the local council and the handing over of the princely sum of 10, it is ours for a year. Times, Sunday Times
The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence.
He enjoys being munificent on a princely scale.
A fellow's salary is no princely sum, and in 1965 foreign holidays were still relatively unusual, so the newlyweds honeymooned in Suffolk for a week.
I once got a stack of about ten albums, discovered inside an old radiogram my parents bought at an auction for the princely sum of £4.50.
A cataclysmic upheaval was experienced by the other princely families when the privy purses were abolished in 1971.
Wherefore I most lowly and heartily do desire your Highness to give me authority and order in writing from your Majesty or your Council, how to demean myself in this your Highness's service, whereby I shall be the more able to do the same, and also receive comfort and heart's ease to be your Highness's daily beadsman to God for persuasion of your most princely and sovereign estate long to endure to God's honour. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
On some of the rugged masses of masonry grew large hoary tufts of the strange roccella or orchil-weed, which yields the famous purple dye -- with which, in all likelihood, the robes of the Cæsars were coloured -- and which gave wealth, rank, and name to one princely Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
If they are so sublimely oblivious to the daily operations of their firms, why are these modern-day plutocrats paid such princely sums, while the vast majority of employees face stagnating or falling real wages?
This biscuit porcelain example, with its marbled black surround bearing its identifying label, came from the collection of a German princely family.
We have worked all our lives for that princely sum. The Sun
We have worked all our lives for that princely sum. The Sun
In return, they guaranteed him the princely sum of sixty thousand dollars annually for a minimum of five years - more than $1.85 million in 1989 dollars.
The grand opening ceremony cost a princely sum of Rs 269 and 8 annas.
But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the régime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
Ambassador in our Realme, and how honourably with full answere in all things, her Maiestie dismissed him, when hee had finished all thy princely affaires (as it seemed) to his owne contentation, it may well appeare by a true certificate lately sent with her highnes letter unto thee Lord, by her messenger Robert Beast, and her The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Thomas Randolfe was with vs at our Citie of Vologda, and wee dealt with him about our Princely affaires, whereby amitie betwixt the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The princely State of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British when Faiz Talab Khan (who was made the first Nawab) aided them in their battle against the Marathas.
Malka from misfortune, and fixed their home fast in wealth; who established pure sacrificial gifts for Ea and Dam-gal-nun-na, who made his kingdom everlastingly great; the princely king of the city, who subjected the districts on the Ud-kib-nun-na Canal [Euphrates?] to the sway of Dagon, his Creator; who spared the inhabitants of Mera and The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
Royal and princely courts, each in declared alliance with one of the Christian churches and usually in concert with the aristocracy, played at least as large a part as they ever had in government and in the shaping of culture.
In the early 1920s, he settled on a career as a pressman for The Florida Times-Union for the princely salary of $15 a week.
All this for the princely sum of fifty quid. Times, Sunday Times
a princely sum
Some of the greatest of the fine arts were produced for princely or noble patrons.
In Catholic countries, the symphony was much used for instrumental interludes in the Mass or in place of the Proper items, at cathedrals, large churches, princely chapels, and monasteries.
Pati demolishes the myth of a monolithic Christianity by presenting the details of the rebellion of the Mundas of Gangpur, a princely state.
Unlike the late Duke d'Orleans, he has no princely coquettishness, which is such a victorious grace, and has no desire to appear agreeable. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
I bought a bike for the princely sum of £20!
As the contagion of revolutionary ideas spread to Italy, every government, princely or republican, strove to repress it.
I bought a bike for the princely sum of £20!
Many Rajput kings retained a status as rulers of princely states under the British.
Over opposite, and crowning the height where the little town of Nemi perches, frowns the old feudal castle of the Colonna, with its tall, round tower, where many a princely family has dwelt and many an unprincely act has been done. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
For the rest, the arrangement of princely establishments in the way of amour is pleasantly portrayed in this [Page vi] brief volume, which in many respects is not without its moral. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
On the very same day I found books by Thoreau, Petronius, and Bernard Shaw, each for same unprincely price. Whitehead and the modern word
To counteract these evils, which were great enough to have ruined any European state in a couple of years, there was, however, the marvellous prodigality of nature -- a bounteousness and richness in the yield of the soil and the depths of the earth hardly equalled in any other part of the world, and in consequence princely fortunes were accumulated in an incredibly short space of time. The Dominion in 1983
Her princely lover accused the knight and challenged him to a combat of arms to prove his innocence or guilt.
It was called Pierre Victoire and for the princely sum of a fiver you could savour a proper French two-course lunch, featuring the likes of homemade pates, rustic casseroles, and basket after basket of delicious bread.
Fairs form the nucleus for frenetic autumn activity in London and New York, while a princely collection is auctioned at a fairy-tale castle in Germany
Deliberate assistance to economic growth went hand in hand with administrative reform aimed at channelling its profits firmly into princely treasuries.
He lost a match and noted in his book that he had to part with the princely sum of three pounds, five shillings.
The happy Hammers managed to buy both of them for the princely sum of. The Sun
What matters more than a sweet reed or a princely doubling preserved if not in aspic then in memory? Consolation from The Piping Times
As Home Minister between 1947 and 1950, Vallabhbhai Patel integrated the princely states, thus altering the politics and geography of modern India.
But the next moment he was himself disturbed by it, and showed discomposure; for this was the only service he had been permitted to do with his own hands during the meal, and he did not doubt that he had done a most improper and unprincely thing. The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages
The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence.
In the case of princely houses, he would draw up treaties, record edicts, and draft the documents which granted feudal enfeoffment. HISTORIOGRAPHY
The evolution of a rudimentary bureaucracy was, by 1180, the distinguishing feature of royal and princely administrations.
He resolved to give up princely life and become a wandering ascetic (samana) in search for the Truth.
I think some remuneration, not a princely sum, will produce a wider field of applicants next time. Times, Sunday Times
The innumerable nuances and petty snobberies of noble life before 1789 were reproduced and magnified in the princely courts of Turin and then Koblenz.
All this for the princely sum of fifty quid. Times, Sunday Times
Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum.
a second travail, and the chances thereof, than to have defaced an enterprise of so great assurance, until I knew whether it pleased God to put a disposition in her princely and royal heart either to follow or forslow (neglect, decline, lose through sloth) the same. The Discovery of Guiana
We can't do such an unprincely thing as take service with you," said The King of Ireland's Son
Disguised as the prince, to conceal the identity of the real prince at Oxford, he is served by the merry nobles and proves himself humorously unprincely. The Growth of English Drama
An equally exotic scrambled-egg dish larded with lobster and caviar was notable for the generous portions of lobster, but for the princely sum of $27.50, the eggs were a little runny.
But he's young, princely provided, and lofty enough in his manner to be princely born, no common kern. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
When the Duke of Prussia endeavoured once more in a friendly way to dissuade him from his purpose, for the honour of the house of Brandenburg, he replied, 'Wicked sons have sprung from the noble race of David, and princes ought not to disgrace themselves by unprincely vices.' Life of Martin Luther
The happy Hammers managed to buy both of them for the princely sum of. The Sun
In addition the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has thrown in his two penn'orth by insisting that parade organisers employ marshals to man the route at the princely sum of £50 per day per marshal. Remembrance Day Parades Under Threat
It'll cost them the princely sum of seventy-five pounds.
Hisroyal master, King Wilhelm, was a profound legitimist; the old King was bound by intimate ties to each of the princely houses of Germany, and he felt the deepest reverencefor the traditions and prerogatives, for the very pedigrees and quarterings, of the venerable dynasties. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
This kind of marooning cruising West India trade of plundering and burning towns," he writes, "though it hath been long practised in these parts, yet is not honourable for a princely navy, neither was it, I think, the work designed, though perhaps it may be tolerated at present. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
So, for the princely sum of 75 pence, I placed an advertisement.
For what princely traveller sojourning here incognito, could they be intended, those glaucous plums, luminous and spherical as was at that moment the circumfluent sea, transparent grapes clustering on a shrivelled stick, like a fine day in autumn, pears of a heavenly ultramarine? Within a Budding Grove
To weigh the alternatives in this balance alone is the work of a moment: and there are all the more moments left for the life of princely expenditure, of inexhaustible revenue, without tax or toil, overdraft, usury or distraint, which is lived in the secret kingdom behind the eyelids. Try Anything Twice
His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand. Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'

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