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They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth.

From Time Magazine Archive

They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without doubt, nothing lends such magnificence to interiors as marbles, but they require the spaciousness and princeliness of such a château to be displayed to advantage.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Incomprehensible as he was, one might always be sure of a certain princeliness in his inexplicable methods.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Though the young prince may be superior in his gifts to the young shoeblack, and would best show his princeliness by cultivating the shoeblack, still the shoeblack should wait to be cultivated.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony