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"Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRINCELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
princely
 a.  of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; grand; august; munificent; magnificent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "And very princely," added Chateau-Renaud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
2  Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a frightful perspiration, was trying to get himself out of his princely sables.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
3  "It is a princely offer," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  But granted even that, it is, to my mind, a princely failing, and one that I trust will long be cultivated among us.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  In Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had sold an old horse in order to obtain bread.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
6  For princely Alcides the avenger came glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
7  In fact, even a bowing acquaintance with a prince or a lord counts, in his eyes, for more than do the most intimate of relations with ordinary folk.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
8  I must put in an appearance there, said the prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
9  I think," said the prince with a smile, "that if you had been sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King of Prussia's consent by assault.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
10  "I shall be delighted to meet them," said the prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
11  The prince was silent and looked indifferent.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
12  The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
13  The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, awaiting a reply.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
14  "Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
15  But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Despite their reputation for reaping princely sums that seem to rise year after year, CEOs took a pay cut in 2009, and a big one at that.
2  At least a dozen people attend on the bride of the wealthy prince.
3  He was speaking without the prince's authority.
4  The young prince is the heir to a vast estate in the west of the country.
5  Speculation was rife as to whom the prince might marry.
6  Poor without debt is better than a prince.
7  The prince is no longer able to perform his duties.
8  Ambition, in a private man a vice, is in a prince, a virtue.
9  I have received a private commission to paint the prince's family.
10  A prince is the son of a king.
11  In the story, the prince woos and wins the fair maiden.
12  The prince was reported to be elated at/by the birth of his new daughter.
13  The prince fall in love with a fair young maiden.
14  The disguised prince resented the cavalier way in which the palace guards treated him. How dared they handle a member of the royal family so unceremoniously!
15  Their disparity in rank made no difference at all to the prince and Cinderella.