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Politically and artistically, it seemed to us far more complex and challenging than the one in which those two disparate birds—the sovereignly solipsistic Joyce and the hedonistic Hemingway—had lived twenty or thirty years before.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2012

You are sovereignly unjust to native talent among the actors—I leave the dramatists alone.

From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry

It was, he said, to the Holy See belonged the privilege of judging sovereignly the claims of these competitors of the empire.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

Count Brahe, keenly aware that his presence was not sovereignly welcome, had several times expressed the fear that his majesty might stand in need of repose.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

By them Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French throne if he were granted full sovereignly over Guienne, Ponthieu, Artois, and Guînes.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William