Example Sentences

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Jemmy lifted his chin arrogantly and tried to look as princelike as possible.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

Ay, somewhat; but your Philip Is the most princelike Prince beneath the sun.

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

Say, behold did ye euer her Angelike face, Like to Phoebe fayre? or her heauenly hauour And the princelike grace that in her remaineth? haue yee the like seene?

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

It was not an Indian head, but, in the union of sweetness and strength with a princelike, childlike dignity, very happily expressive of his idea of her character.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

Writers of that day speak of the masts of the ships in the river as resembling a forest, and of the wealth of the merchants, according to the notions of the day, as princelike.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown