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Definition of Princelier
1. princely [adj] - See also: princely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Princelier
Literary usage of Princelier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War by Margaret Junkin Preston (1866)
"... I ween, A princelier presence has never been seen ; And as yonder he lies,
from the groups all apart, I bow to him loyally,—bow with my heart. ..."
2. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1897)
"... and tall— A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a Prince's Spain in his
blood and the Jew dark-visaged, stately hall. And who, when his anger was ..."
3. The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1902)
"and tall— A princelier-looking man never slept thro' a Prince's Spain in his
blood and the Jew dark-visaged, stately hall. And who, when his anger was ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"No princelier pair held sway beneath the throne Than this same Earl of Roslyn
and his mate ; The daily largess doled from royal Scone Was poor to that which ..."
5. Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen (1904)
"Nay, if we compare Pope to some of the later writers who have wrung still princelier
rewards from fortune, the result is not unfavourable. ..."
6. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... than any we have known thrill us between heart-beats. For one fleeting night
a princelier nature captures us, and we become as great as our aspirations. ..."
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