The submissiveness of some blacks is fading along with white lordliness.

Hainhausen, though, did not benefit from the former lords' descendants' lordliness.

No doubt my voice contained more lordliness than appeared warranted by my situation.

The lordliness is fearsome; the weakness is terrifying.

The lordliness of his bearing scarcely fitted with the absence of servant or bodyguard.

But this "lordliness" of God was taking shape and maturing within me, compassionate, generous and all- powerful.

He had put on weight, increased in size, and, protected by the taboo, had become self-confident almost to lordliness.

Byron gave to this style a special patrician spin, a lordliness that was both a class gesture and a uniquely personal flourish.

They could not even fling themselves into chairs without suggesting by the very posture of their limbs a certain lordliness, a leonine indolence.

Rip Torn plays Zeus with the grandiose lordliness of John Huston.

Who but a wise and kindly people could have bequeathed to us a god that so harmoniously blends lordliness and lovingness?

The lion refers to the early Hessian lordliness, and the three stars stand for the three constituent communities within Angelburg.

That revelation of his latest and worst mistake drained away any strength or will or lordliness still inherent in the Revered Speaker.

He seems to know there will be more, and this confidence - a kind of lordliness even - turns out to be crucial in addressing the listener's pleasure.

She knew she sounded effusive but she remembered the lordliness of S. Kettering's style and wished to propitiate him.

When off the box, his hands are thrust into the pockets of his great coat, and he rolls about the inn yard with an air of the most absolute lordliness.

In essence both of them - a party of service to the people and a party of unquestionability, Communist arrogance and Communist lordliness -have always coexisted.

Half a century earlier public lordliness might have done well enough (it's still practiced in private), but it was mostly unsuited to British political style once Queen Victoria was no more.

'I can't stand his lordliness; but I admire his moral stance; and the first is always the servant of the second,' the other scribe had explained serenely, fuelling Huy's dislike.

They were, it seems, filled with an inherited bitterness against the Eldar, whom they regarded as deserters of their kin, and in Beleriand this feeling was increased by envy (especially of the Amanyar), and by resentment of their lordliness.

O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this, That thou vouchsafing here to visit me, Doing the honour of thy lordliness To one so meek, that mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy!

He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen, and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking, lecturing them about making a noise and then, with extreme lordliness, cooking them a very bad meal at no charge.

He succeeded in the end in making her understand that she was not 'rejected' out of scorn or Elvish lordliness; but that the depar- ture of Aegnor was for motives of 'wisdom', and cost Aegnor great pain: he was an equal victim of the tragedy.

This sort of worshipper will look for that which best embodies the loveliness of the stars and the worlds and the forests and the seas and the sunsets, and which best acts out the blandness, lordliness, accuracy, self-sufficiency, cruelty, independence, and contemptuous and capricious impersonality of the all governing Nature.