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lordly
1. It didn't matter that Emily was as powerful as any White Mage in existence, Brice had still chosen for her to wear the brown robe of a novice, which she humbly did, somehow making the dull garment appear lordly
2. Pushing through the forest there were few animals to be seen; occasionally a rustling among the bushes announced some lordly snake on the prowl, or a chatter and cracking overhead denoted that a solemn palaver of monkeys had been disturbed
3. For an instant Molo was reminded of an usher of festivities or a lordly servant, but such an image did not do the Pilgrim any justice
4. 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought out butter in a Lordly dish
5. First that Myserrah, Moshe thought, then sullen Uruk, now this, lordly Youssaf? What have we done that the gods would plague us in such a manner? -- Careful, the inner voice warned again, he might read your thoughts in your face
6. Moshe looked up uncertainly at the lordly figure
7. First that Myserrah, Moshe thought, then sullen Uruk, now this, lordly Youssaf? What have we
8. Here I stand, awaiting your lordly pleasure!'
9. Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
10. And by the lordly sex to us consigned
11. Actually they were the last remains of his lordly inheritance
12. Is God really only placed in such a lordly position by merit of him being willing to shoulder the blame for all that is bad? It would make a lot of sense
13. So, reader, examine this lordly, unlordly man as he stands at the taffrail
14. “And after that”––Shadd swatted the boy with the stick––“his lordly parents can pay for my ruined whiskey
15. He walked to the shopping center of the fashionable suburb where they lived, with his lordly gait looking at the windows of men's shops
16. I had to admit that I did feel rather lordly, as I strode through the timeworn halls of my forefathers
17. "Remember, Sancho, if thou make virtue thy aim, and take a pride in doing virtuous actions, thou wilt have no cause to envy those who have princely and lordly ones, for blood is an inheritance, but virtue an acquisition, and virtue has in itself alone a worth that blood does not possess
18. Don Quixote delighted beyond measure with such a lordly reception, replied to him in words no less courteous
19. He, with lordly dignity, has shaken of a clog; and the allowing her food and raiment, is thought sufficient to secure his reputation from taint
20. Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance of any reckless deed by which he can maintain himself and the rabble of his associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought in from without, or those whom he himself has allowed to break loose within him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself
21. that their lordly wisdom little dreams of, and in virtue of which the most
22. And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun
23. All the lordly residences in the vicinity of the palace of justice were demolished and that noble edifice itself, in which at the time of the catastrophe important legal debates were in progress, is literally a mass of ruins
24. There is, in short, in the men, when once they are caught, by the eye especially, a fund of cullibility that their lordly wisdom little dreams of, and in virtue of which the most sagacious of them are seen so often our dupes
25. The circle had broken up, and the lordly Capataz de Cargadores, the indispensable man, the tried and trusty Nostromo, the Mediterranean sailor come ashore casually to try his luck in Costaguana, rode slowly towards the harbour
26. It was a “two-horse” farm, not the lordly plantation of other days with pastures full of mules and fine horses and cotton and corn stretching as far as eye could see
27. Goat, flavored with some lordly spice he’d never tasted before
28. Compared to Storm’s End or Highgarden and other lordly seats that Dunk had seen, it was a modest castle…but it was a castle, not a fortified watchtower
29. But Hoover had a rather lordly view of the importance of his office and wasn’t good at appearing open or approachable to ordinary people
30. There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest
31. The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion
32. Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest
33. When the vast body had at last been stripped of its fathom-deep enfoldings, and the bones become dust dry in the sun, then the skeleton was carefully transported up the Pupella glen, where a grand temple of lordly palms now sheltered it
34. They do not give themselves lordly airs; they have no feeling of "caste;" they have a certain odour of the people; they are men of birth, and the people at once sniff it
35. I have made a lordly personage tremble, as he sat in his armchair
36. The entire country near the coast, on the east as on the west, may be said to be given over to rank jungles, in which the lordly tiger, the one-horned rhinoceros, the wild pig, and tapir have their homes, and monkeys of almost every species are abundant in the wooded slopes
37. Fortunately the lordly tiger seldom met us in an aggressive mood, but we had several experiences with "Old Stripes," nevertheless—at long range; and we were constantly stumbling over squeaking pigs and venomous reptiles of many kinds
