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

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.

Hassan looks more princelike than ever, sitting opposite to us, very erect and very gravely gracious, acknowledging salutes.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

I have outlived the kindest and most princelike of masters.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

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