Besides this he was irritated by Goethe's prosperity and lordly independence.
This Castle Solitude was itself an outcome of the same lordly mood that had led to the removal of the court to Ludwigsburg.
For in the composing of this lordly book I never lost nor bestowed any more, nor any other time, than what was appointed to serve me for taking of my bodily refection, that is, whilst I was eating and drinking.
And mighty folios first, a lordly band; Then quartos their well-ordered ranks maintain.
Nay, these be evil days, I say again; and more strange things may come to pass than bearding a lordly abbot in his den!
The wind was high, the storm grew loud, Fierce rose the billowy sea; When from Sir Bertine's lordly tower The bell boomed heavily!
Lordly thou lookest, as if that thou wert learnd; Thy countenance as if science held her seate Betweene the circled arches of thy browes.
In this charming retirement, and in the quiet enjoyment of private life, he has laid aside the gown of the author to assume the capote of the planter, and become an indefatigable devotee to the lordly pleasures of the chase.
When will these lordly ecclesiastics learn that the time for dogmatic assertion is past, and that the intellectual temper of the present age can be satisfied only by proof?
Look at that big pet with the lordly yet tender eye!
The sun, at this time, was but half an hour high, and unobscured by a cloud, was going to his lordly repose behind the forest that stood bathed in his departing splendor.
That noblest beast of chase, the wild stag, in the West of England, has a lordly habit of feasting during night, and seeking repose in the small hours towards dawn of day.
It is an hour or two before dawn when he reaches this well-known haunt, and the lordly beast, penetrating to its inmost thicket, lays himself down with the intention of sleeping undisturbed till late in the day.
He was a lordly man in his day was Händel; and dared to cut that terrible Dean Swift, whose love affairs are perhaps the chief riddle of all amorous chronicle.
There were flowers everywhere, and far from the mansions of the lordly was many a log hut, beautiful in a tangle of vines.
Then Beowulf's share of lordly treasure was paid for by his death.
Proudly Tia Trinidad bore in the lordly dish, for she knew that never in the palace was a more perfect stew served.
Instead of blooming on his lordly stalk as at the first, the pride and pet of the peasant maid, he was soon trampled to atoms by a drove of pigs, passing on their way to market!
Then turned his knotted shoulders bare As birth-time in his splendid strength, And strode, strode with a lordly stride To where the high and wood-hung edge Looked down, far down upon the molten tide.
Yet do my eyes not linger long on the lordly pair; they wander down the long train of Knights wherein he is coming, though among the last.
Up the lordly line of splendid poplar-trees that bound my cosy little paddock the green ivy grows, and here sparrows dwell in hundreds.
It is the month of February, and the cold winds moan carelessly through the black and gloomy Scotch pines out yonder, and through the lordly poplars, tall and bare, with a sound that carries one's thoughts seaward.
Genius and power have long departed from the descendants of that lordly race; but mankind still flock to the Hellenic strand to gaze on the divine relics of the past.
From the mouth of the Nile to above the Cataracts, relics of former magnificence stretch away to the borders of the Desert; and even amid the now sandy wastes we stumble at times upon a ruin lordly even in its decay.
Its mountain peaks rise bare and rugged to the skies, where lordlyeagles soar.
The first creature which, appropriately enough, led the van, was a lordly black bull.
He came to finish it a complacent and lordly figure!
He began a lordly survey of the people at neighbouring tables--people who had doubtless walked there, or come in hired cabs, at the best.
He affected a lordly unconsciousness of the homage Nap received.
The sable vision of a hearse drawn by four lordly black horses at first possessed his mind.
Below the windows a green hill fell sheerly away to the bank of a lordly river, and beyond rose other hills that shimmered in the haze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lordly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
