Princelike

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Prince´like`

a. 1. Princely.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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For gardens (speaking of those which are indeed princelike, as we have done of buildings), the contents ought not well to be under thirty acres of ground; and to be divided into three parts; a green in the entrance; a heath or desert in the going forth; and the main garden in the midst; besides alleys on both sides.

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There are [those] to which I lift my hat when I see them sitting princelike among their peers on the page.

Disentangling Emily Dickinson's Riddles and encoded voices in "My Life had Stood--a Loaded Gun" and "I taste a liquor never brewed"/Emily Dickinson: enigmas y voces cripticas en "My Life Had Stood--a Loaded Gun" y "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"