"Regally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interest so pronounced as really to be almost offensive to the performers. In almost anyone else the manifestation of so profound an indifference to the efforts of others to please would have been regarded as an indication of ill-breeding; but in her case—well, she was so regally and entrancingly lovely that somehow one felt as though her beauty justified everything, and that it was an act of condescension and a favour that she graced the cuddy with her presence at all. And indeed I was very much disposed to think that this was her ...
— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood
... extravagance, held within her gilded gates one citadel of sensuality which remained ever an object of mystery, a source of curiosity even in that dissipated and pleasure-sated city. In the Palais Royal, back of the regally beautiful gardens, back of the noble rows of trees, beyond the gates of iron and the guards in uniform, lived France's regent, in a city of libertines the prince of libertines. In a city where there were more mistresses than wives, he it was who led the list of the licentious. ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... she aspires to govern Spain, 142; manoeuvres to secure the post of camerara-mayor, 142; the art and caution with which she negotiates with the Marechale de Noailles, 143; the astute programme traced by her for de Torcy, 145; naive expression of delight at her success, 146; sets forth regally equipped to conduct the Princess of Savoy to her husband, 148; enters upon her militant career at an advanced age, 148; entirely possessed by her painstaking ambition, 149; enters upon her new mission with zeal, ardour, and activity, more than virile, ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... either the occupant of the Sacred Chair or its favoured supporter. So Avignon became a city of priests as Rome had been before her; and as France was the richest country in Europe and the Church regally wealthy, splendour, luxury, and constant religious spectacles rejoiced the city, and Bishop, Archbishop, and Abbot, brazenly neglecting the duties of their Sees, lived here and were seldom "in residence." Every one had a secret ambition. ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... "Aluisi," she said gravely, "my Uncle Andrea hath been more than kind—as to a child who asketh only baubles: but, truly, he will not see that one may not rest content to be always a child: he thinketh, perchance, that for women there is no duty but to move regally in the midst of a splendor where he would verily pour out his fortune. A question fretteth his mood, which persistence maketh not more serious. But in a kingdom where discontent hath a share, one must study the heart of the people and win it, if ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull |
