How To Use Queenly In A Sentence
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Apparently Her Majesty the Queen never travels without Malvern water, and there's certainly something queenly about the town that grew around the spa.
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She continues: ‘But the woman inside that queenly thing, the ego, was a different matter.’
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I have counted scores of these rich garlands, throughout which the queenly lotus always shone conspicuous, bespangling the surface of the water at the same time.
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Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature?
Times, Sunday Times
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The time he stood by the lake and gazed up at the mountains: the queenly, snowbound, glorious mountains, rose-tipped by sunrise...
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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And his goodwill sunned her wild-grown beauty into majesty, into a kind of queenly richness.
Imaginary Portraits
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Katherine rose and stood rocking it, soothing it -- a queenly young figure in her clinging gray and white draperies, which the instreaming sunshine touched, as she moved, to a delicate warmth of colour.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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Ian Bostridge's Jupiter gradually unbends to deliver the sweetest soft legato, Patricia Bardon's Juno is hilariously fiery as the queenly betrayed wife, and Janis Kelly camps Iris up something terrible.
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Her queenly ambitions were fulfilled big time at their wedding.
Times, Sunday Times
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I swallowed back the sickly lump I felt forming in the back of my throat as I heard the recognizable, queenly footsteps of my mistress, and I could feel my body shrink into itself.
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And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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I am being accommodated in a more queenly fashion: in an Airstream caravan in the middle of the salt flats.
Times, Sunday Times
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clad in her queenly raiment
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Just four months before Pearl Harbor the queenly Augusta had carried President Roosevelt to a quiet Newfoundland bay for the first of many historic meetings with Winston Churchill.
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He sees through her queenly behaviour to the restlessness in her heart.
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She may leave court with her entourage, but not the queenly jewels.
Times, Sunday Times
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She even looked normal-looking (i.e. halo and queenly demeanor left at home) sources say.
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I am being accommodated in a more queenly fashion: in an Airstream caravan in the middle of the salt flats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The drawing appears to be a most unqueenly portrait, as the sitter is wearing a nightgown.
Times, Sunday Times
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At her Julien Park, Diego Martin home, a gaunt, queenly 87-year-old Hazel sat on a sofa, staring into space.
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Pleased but bewildered, Mrs. Terriberry read of herself as "queenly in gray satin and diamonds," being unable to place the diamonds until she recalled the rhinestone comb in her back hair which sparkled with the doubtful brilliancy of a row of alum cubes.
The Lady Doc
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Alban recalled how magnificent and queenly she looked, a tall imposing figure.
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And beyond those queenly duties, every other task in the hive - from gathering pollen to feeding larvae to flapping wings for air flow to cool the hive - can be done by any bee.
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Her eyes were large below a high, thin-templed forehead; and when she looked at Gertie all her face and the proudful way she held her head were somehow queenly, but bigger than anything else about her was the joy inside her that curved her lips into smiles and brightened her naturally somber eyes.
The Dollmaker
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Maybe it's time for a real break anyway, rather than these forced little queenly waves from the carriage of my worldly cares.
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Likewise, Cameron's relation to her subjects does look hard and controlling, imperious at times, even queenly, and this is as much a part of its significance in a circle of mothers and daughters as its tenderness.
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I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy.
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On ABC, Tina Brown, the editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, who wrote a biography of Princess Diana, couldn't stop praising the bride's poise and aptitude for her new job, using the word "queenly" to describe the newly named Duchess of Cambridge.
NYT > Home Page
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The "queenly" Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, the unnamed avenger in Charles Augustus Milverton, the intrepid Violet Hunter - plenty of material for filmmakers to draw on!
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And 'queenly' becomes 'witchy' -- a powerful sorceress who can mysteriously bend people's will to do the most horrific acts against nature, man and God.
Shana Ting Lipton: Boleyn for Concubine
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She gave a queenly wave as she rode past.
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Then straightway large-eyed queenly Hera prayed, striking the ground flatwise with her hand, and speaking thus:
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes.
Anne of Green Gables
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Campbell worked with a dialect coach to perfect her queenly accent, which sounds fresh from the old British film Brief Encounter.
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Claudius sees through Gertrude's queenly behavior to the restlessness in her heart.
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But, reverting to the new phases in the ever-shifting emotionalism of a godless world, with which marriage has become a question of barter -- a mere lot-drawing of lambs for the shambles -- he compared the happy queenly life of our Irish mother with that of the victim of fashion, or that of uncatholic lands, where a poor girl passes from one state of slavery to another.
My New Curate
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My sister frequently demands queenly treatment, but her latest examples defy believability.
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She gave a queenly wave.
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There was something stately and distinguished in her carriage, "queenly" her friends called her, while her critics described her as reserved and distant.
Beyond the City
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I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and Isabel has a fair face and a queenly dowry.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Matilda appears to have performed competently the expected queenly role of supporting her husband's rule and frequently acted as regent in England when he was in Normandy.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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There is little that can credibly be called queenly about these creatures, least of all when they display their menacing teeth.
A Formula So Old It's New Again
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Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off).
Wodehouse the Parodist
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She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
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Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature?
Times, Sunday Times
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I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
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While Mary successfully projected queenly serenity, her place in political theory was another matter.
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Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
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In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
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Rosetti's queenly portraits of women
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She may leave court with her entourage, but not the queenly jewels.
Times, Sunday Times
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No queenly way for woman to practise, though peerless she, that the weaver-of-peace 76 from warrior dear by wrath and lying his life should reave!
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Furthermore, while maiden Lavinia stands beside her father feeding the altars with holy fuel, she was seen, oh, horror! to catch fire in her long tresses, and burn with flickering flame in all her array, her queenly hair lit up, lit up her jewelled circlet; till, enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the palace.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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We should not mistake this set of influential women for a proof of female independence and autonomy: queenly power was often contested, and all the evidence we have for female autonomy shows it to have been both fragile and circumscribed.
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Rosalind unhappily appeared for the dreaded occasion clad in her finest queenly garments, a gown of rich ivory edged with gold brocade and pearls.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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queenly propriety
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That night was one of many such evenings in queenly Venice.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes.
Anne of Green Gables
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It's easy - and sometimes fun - to mock her queenly stature and cult following.
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And thus did the Ephesians play the 'March of the Goddess Hecate,' and the sound of the queenly tread of the Infernal Goddess seemed to follow the ranks of her devotees, ranks of priests and priestesses dressed in black raiment bestud with stars of gold, a crescent moon on every brow.
Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus
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Perhaps they will merely think me eager to be about my queenly duties, or more likely, they will concoct a dozen and more rumors of plots, counterplots, intrigues, and the like before I have scarcely left their sight.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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And 'queenly' becomes 'witchy' -- a powerful sorceress who can mysteriously bend people's will to do the most horrific acts against nature, man and God.
Shana Ting Lipton: Boleyn for Concubine
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Her queenly ambitions were fulfilled big time at their wedding.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I do _not_ love _her_!" answered the proud girl, regarding the woman whom the world called her benefactress, with a glance of queenly scorn.
The Old Homestead