Read full poem →The good old landlord's hospitable door?
Well, I could wish, that still in lordly domes
Some beasts were kill'd, though not whole hecatombs;
Dictionary Entry
Of or relating to a lord.
In a Sentence
“Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “lordly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →From the bountiful infinite west, from the happy memorial places
Full of the stately repose and the lordly delight of the dead,
Where the fortunate islands are lit with the light of ineffable faces,
Read full poem →Oh! why did e’er I turn from these?
The lordly, tall, umbrageous trees,
That stand in high aspiring pride,
Read full poem →"What dost?" I cried; "transport'st thou my delight?
My lordly hands I'll throw upon my right. 30
Such bliss is only common to us two,
Read full poem →I _am_ so proud of Frederick.
He's so high-bred and lordly-like
With Mrs. Vaughan! He's not quite so
Read full poem →Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Read full poem →CUD. All otherwise the state of Poet stands;
For lordly Love is such a tyrant fell,
That, where he rules, all power he doth expel;
Read full poem →How it shook when alone. Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
Read full poem →Grey-haired he groaneth, knows gone companions,
Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven,
Nor may he then the flesh-cover, whose life ceaseth,
Read full poem →Wide through the landscape of his dreams
The lordly Niger flowed;
Beneath the palm-trees on the plain