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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

"That was very pretty in her; it was sovereignly gracious," said Elmore.

From A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories by Howells, William Dean

For the musician, too, had within him some of the graciousness and highness and sweetness of spirit the poet manifested so sovereignly.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

From true sovereignty, it follows, that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; and from his other perfections, it follows, that he is supremely or sovereignly perfect.

From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel