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Suharto's kinglike grip on power mesmerizes all his subjects, and so far no one has dared to openly challenge him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior."

From Time Magazine Archive

Standing before the biggest and the oldest and the most kinglike of them all, I suddenly had an idea.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

It was neither listless choice nor lack of kinglike interest that had detained Harthacanute in Denmark; it was the danger that threatened from Norway.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

And this dead king's Who, king or not, hath kinglike fought and fallen, His birthday, too.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron