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lordly Adjective [-lier, -liest] 1. haughty or arrogant 2. of or suitable to a lord lordliness n
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| He could appear to strut even while sitting still and he showed that he was a lion of lordly characteristics by the air with which he spat. There were half a dozen flies or more from the Woking station standing in the road by the sand pits, a basket- chaise from Chobham, and a rather lordly carriage. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore |
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