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  • Instead of wise and confident, the man looked cold, commanding, intimidating, like some regal animal of prey.†   (source)
  • She took a deep breath, raised her chin a little higher, and started walking toward me at an exaggeratedly regal pace.†   (source)
  • On the left of the screen, the queen and Prince Maxon sat in their typical cluster of thronelike seats and elegant clothes, looking regal and important.†   (source)
  • 'And you two are clearly Weasleys,' Mrs Longbottom continued, proffering her hand regally to Ron and Ginny in turn.†   (source)
  • He shook his head now, admiring with genuine avidity the spread of fruit before him; strawberries arranged in turned-up cedar flats, heavy and pungent, deeply crimson and firm, a regal abundance of them.†   (source)
  • Regal.†   (source)
  • Well, are you registering as a Droid or a Regal?†   (source)
  • While the rector read, the kings bowed to the Baby Jesus and presented him with the usual gifts—ornate boxes and tins, and shiny trinkets, difficult to distinguish from the distance of the congregation but somehow regal in appearance.†   (source)
  • She's tall, slender, almost regal-looking and has a much better figure than Hilly.†   (source)
  • The prince wore a golden crown upon his neat hair, and she had to concede that he looked rather regal.†   (source)
  • "Regal," Magister Illyrio said, stepping through an archway.†   (source)
  • Though he has a regal, serious look to him, he can't be more than seventeen.†   (source)
  • Her hair, her clothes, they were all heavy with the cold water, but she stood quietly, calm and regal as a mermaid queen who had just arrived out of the sea.†   (source)
  • I glimpsed the regal Orient Express, just arrived from Constantinople, landing below us.†   (source)
  • He's very much like his father, tall (six feet two inches) and quite regal looking, with dark curly hair.†   (source)
  • He stepped forward nervously, but Piper couldn't help thinking how amazing he looked with his blond hair glowing in the firelight, his regal features like a Roman statue's.†   (source)
  • He walked regally and with great dignity, bowed low to the audience, breathing deeply in the glory of the spotlight, the cheers, and the thunderous applause just for him.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, with that strong regal nose and high forehead.†   (source)
  • Old, unusual, regal.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she became regal.†   (source)
  • She was one of the most accomplished musicians in the camp—she'd been accepted into the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto—and she was also model-gorgeous: tall, regal, with skin the color of coffee, and cheekbones that could carve ice.†   (source)
  • I knew regal Sharon with her twenty years in journalism, her interviews with Arafat and Sarkozy and Obama, would be offended by the very idea of Ellen Abbott.†   (source)
  • Seeing none, she drew herself up with regal disdain.†   (source)
  • She looked far from regal.†   (source)
  • She sat as straight and regal as a high court judge.†   (source)
  • Seen from the highway, it looked raw and rough, a hasty sketch chiseled from the dark mountain, rather than the regal figure I had expected.†   (source)
  • Then Evelyn emerges into the lobby, her posture regal, like a queen returning to her kingdom.†   (source)
  • Man, I thought, does that sound regal.†   (source)
  • He stood to his full height, his face regal behind the lines of grief.†   (source)
  • Her long dark hair, her full chest, her startling eyes, and a face that glowed with the intimidating sheen of classic regal features.†   (source)
  • From her perch atop her bed-a bed, incidentally, that she shared with no oneRosetta sat regally on a throne of bed pillows, legs crossed Buddha fashion, while drinking ice water, listening to her favorite public radio station, WBAI, and giving commands all day.†   (source)
  • A few paperclips, a couple of reams of paper, nobody will miss this tablecloth or this Golden Regal place setting ...and what about this fine snowmobile battery?†   (source)
  • Momentarily there was a silence, but then an old woman with a turban who lived with her daughter and grandsons in the bedroom above Saeed and Nadia's, and whom Nadia had helped on more than one occasion to ascend the stairs, the old woman being regal in posture but also quite large, this old woman motioned to Nadia, beckoned Nadia to come stand at her side, to stand beside the garden chair on which she was sitting.†   (source)
  • She was regal in her bearing and, like all of us, very serious about her studies.†   (source)
  • The old woman inclined her head regally.†   (source)
  • She was a regal matron, but with a bitter smile on her face that revealed her inner tragedy.†   (source)
  • She wore a lovely gown of pearl gray silk, and her silvery hair swept regally away from her face, but there was something ugly about her, an angry set to her mouth, a coldness in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Anyone who could have seen her in front of the mirror, in ecstasy over her own regal gestures, would have had reason to think that she was mad.†   (source)
  • She looked more regal than the Emperor's own blood.†   (source)
  • When Leslie spoke, the words rolling out so regally, you knew she was a proper queen.†   (source)
  • She walked regally behind the stretcher to the ambulance.†   (source)
  • All of this was witnessed, with a lazy, regal disinterest by their fathers, five enormous Hereford bulls, who lay chewing in an adjoining pen.†   (source)
  • "I'm delighted to see you again, Mrs. Silenski," he said, smiling, holding out that regal hand.†   (source)
  • This shouldn't take more than a moment:' Neferet regally gestured for the suits and me to follow her as she swept from the big main room (with everyone gawking openmouthed at us) to the little side room we called the dorm library, but was actually more of a computer room with some comfortable chairs and a few shelves filled with paperbacks.†   (source)
  • Adid's regal manner, the slow play of expressions on his face, each thought matched by a lip-eyebrow combo, gave Hema the bizarre idea that she'd like to suck his index finger.†   (source)
  • Again, I found myself studying it: the varied faces, some smiling, some not, the gentle regalness of the elderly women, who were staring right into the camera.†   (source)
  • "How true," said the unhappy king, resting his regal chin on his royal fist as he thought fondly of the old days.†   (source)
  • Phil casually scans the thick, regal red carpeting.†   (source)
  • The floodplain he crossed was walled about with fallen traprock and in the twilight the little desert foxes had come out to sit along the walls silent and regal as icons watching the night come and the doves called from the acacia and then night fell dark as Egypt and there was just the stillness and the silence and the sound of the horses breathing and the sound of their hooves clopping in the dark.†   (source)
  • The tiger remained regally indifferent to the attention.†   (source)
  • Viktor takes a bottle of Chivas Regal out of his overnight bag.†   (source)
  • It was especially difficult to watch over the Masai patients, who were so tall and regal herding their cattle but who collapsed when they had to be hospitalized.†   (source)
  • He seemed eternally indestructible as he sat there surrounded by danger, his features molded firmly into that same fierce, regal, just and forbidding countenance which was recognized and revered by every man in the squadron.†   (source)
  • I think he was drinking Chivas Regal.†   (source)
  • Not that Mom isn't, but Liz is sort of regal or something.†   (source)
  • She gestured in turn, rather regally, toward her suitcase.†   (source)
  • Her long neck and profile made a very regal silhouette against the intertwining branches.†   (source)
  • "But wasn't it Oliver Cromwell who had him executed?" she managed, trying to sound regal.†   (source)
  • And each was both old enough and young enough to actually believe she was a princess riding in a regal chariot driven by a powerful coachman.†   (source)
  • "[Adams] thought Hamilton and a party were endeavoring to get an army on foot to give Hamilton the command of it, and thus to proclaim a regal government and place Hamilton as the head of it, and prepare the way for a province of Great Britain," wrote Gerry.†   (source)
  • Even John had to admit reluctantly that the bearing and manner of the Winter King, enemy though he was, exuded a regal nobility that demanded attention, if not respect.†   (source)
  • He had given up Don Quixote and taken to keeping a bottle of Chivas Regal in his apartment near Penn.†   (source)
  • The third one was the Castle Room, for those of us who needed to feel regal while we chowed.†   (source)
  • "I want to see Eugenides," she said in her best regal manner.†   (source)
  • The regal woman touched her hair and gracefully negotiated the aisles toward him.†   (source)
  • The work over the past two days, though frenzied, had gone smoothly, and while the furniture was gone, the house's regal appearance reminded me of the years it had been occupied.†   (source)
  • A regally bred mare named Brushup had foaled a near-black colt, a son of Man o' War, and they couldn't take their eyes off of him.†   (source)
  • Holding court in the living room, she gives directions regally.†   (source)
  • The servants had bright cummerbunds that tied off into sashes, little girls in white gowns and red shoes sported regal-looking ribbons, and the women were dizzying concoctions of cloth, flesh, and jewels.†   (source)
  • The jewels on the naked shoulders of women carried the glitter of the chandeliers to the shadows of the tables crowded against the distant walls; the severe black-and white of the men's figures rescued the room's style of solemnly regal luxury from the discordant slashes made by news cameras, microphones and a dormant array of television equipment.†   (source)
  • His dance is one of solemn, regal motions, each gesture of the body is made with a solemn finality.†   (source)
  • The most regal green being the tea bush which is regal also in its symmetrical efficient planting.†   (source)
  • "Rise, knave," I said regally.†   (source)
  • Lee is the tall, rugged Virginian with the silver beard and regal air.†   (source)
  • He saw the lone officer, much closer now, sitting regally on horseback, outlined against a darkening sky.†   (source)
  • Directly across the street from the Four Seasons, outside the entrance of a CVS drugstore, was a rented Buick Regal.†   (source)
  • M.C. and I waited in the regal sitting-room for supper.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Well, we're nobody special ROS (regal and nasty): What's your game?†   (source)
  • My hand moved clumsily among the crystal decanters in the dark and I chose the Jack Daniels for myself, the Chivas Regal for Mark.†   (source)
  • As they passed the Regal cinema a man, staggering along in front of them, fell down, paused for a moment upon hands and knees, and rolled dead drunk intothe gutter...Nobody paid much attention to him.†   (source)
  • Because he reminded me irresistibly of a Royal Gentleman for whom I worked as a simple soldier during the war, I found myself calling the father of the family George, even though in my notebooks, he was austerely identified only as Wolf "A." George was a massive and eminently regal beast whose coat was silver-white.†   (source)
  • Just as he did so, the regal, celebrant strains of Handel's Water Music shimmered down the stairs from Sophie's room.†   (source)
  • That regal and musical use of the lowest language and the coarsest expressions was what was holding Metty.†   (source)
  • In this prosaic, weekday aspect of her being, dishevelled, with her sleeves rolled and her skirts tucked up, she almost frightened him by her regal attractiveness, more breath-taking than if he had found her on the point of going to a ball, taller in high-heeled shoes and in a long, low-cut gown with a sweeping, rustling skirt.†   (source)
  • A figure was waiting there for him—an elegant gentleman with an aquiline face and regal gray eyes.†   (source)
  • No Chivas Regal here; this was the fictional equivalent of backwoods popskull.†   (source)
  • Looking up at that regal profile, I did not see Nero.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bouhan used to give him Chivas Regal scotch liquor to drink.†   (source)
  • They look like a king and queen should, regal and cold and beautiful.†   (source)
  • He is a regal animal, pale cream in color, and he moves with great dignity.†   (source)
  • Even if he is a bit rumpled, they all look surprisingly regal today.†   (source)
  • She has been called marvellous, thrilling, magnificent, regal, stately, majestic and superb.†   (source)
  • She was shorter and curvier than the queen, but she was every bit as regal in her dress.†   (source)
  • Harriet Wheelwright had a gift for making a regal entry.†   (source)
  • His discomfort was growing in leaps and bounds, and sitting in an oversized regal chair didn't help.†   (source)
  • Jessica allowed herself a regal nod before accepting.†   (source)
  • To Ancient Egyptians, I'm sure he would've looked regal and warlike, a fine specimen of manhood.†   (source)
  • She was almost regal in her fame and wisdom by then.†   (source)
  • Were you to wear one, Alyss, you could make the saddle blanket of a spirit-dane look regal.†   (source)
  • Elise didn't typically stand out, but tonight she looked lovely, almost regal.†   (source)
  • He towers over me, using the stern, regal voice that could make a mountain bow.†   (source)
  • I crossed my arms and glared at the regal dwarf-slob.†   (source)
  • Her regal face reminded me of Isis, but this woman had a gentler smile and kinder eyes.†   (source)
  • She had brought a regal beauty back into the Atreides line.†   (source)
  • She wore a regal purple cloak over her armor.†   (source)
  • "How ...dare you?" repeated the perplexed professor, sputtering as he regally strode to the window.†   (source)
  • It was not a very regal pose, but she was tired of being regal.†   (source)
  • He stared down at her, golden eyes steady, unblinking, his wings regally folded.†   (source)
  • She stared up, her face regal and distant, and spoke directly into Annabeth's mind.†   (source)
  • Maybe this regal creature had a fiancé.†   (source)
  • So you've never seen a hag before?" asked Mum, giving a regal turn to present her bulbous profile.†   (source)
  • Queen Islanzadi stood in the lead, as regal as ever.†   (source)
  • He was lean and muscular, with a regal face and black hair flowing down his shoulders.†   (source)
  • A bird perched on a tree branch above him, a crow, regarding him with regal indifference.†   (source)
  • "Aine will make the regal and the magnificent," Iona said.†   (source)
  • A few seconds later a Buick Regal appeared.†   (source)
  • Regally lovely, Agnes Conlon caught the eye of every young man in the hospital.†   (source)
  • I moved toward him, fascinated by his intelligent eyes and his regal stance.†   (source)
  • —that there mingled in her regal beauty something of the too-quick, diffident, plebeian disdain.†   (source)
  • She nodded, rising to her regal height and holding his hand.†   (source)
  • She still had the same strong, unstoppable gaze, the same regal, beautiful face.†   (source)
  • With her regal carriage, she walked across the beach to stand by the skiff.†   (source)
  • Horses," Iona qualified as she stroked the regal-eyed Queen Bee.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the Athena Parthenos towered over the battle—regal, haughty, and unconcerned.†   (source)
  • When he finished, Eragon stood before Garzhvog and knew the Urgal's bloodline was as regal as any prince's.†   (source)
  • Atlas had the same regal expression as Zoe, the same cold proud look in his eyes that Zoe sometimes got when she was mad, though on him it looked a thousand times more evil.†   (source)
  • Quotes from those polled edged the graph, saying that Celeste was positively regal, though she was in third.†   (source)
  • I imagined Jid's Santa Claus face getting redder and redder, Bibi doing her best to keep her regal poise while angry steam spewed from the edges of her hijab.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in robes rather than armor, sitting calmly and regally on his throne, as if he were happy to watch others do the fighting.†   (source)
  • And with a regal wave, he waddled out of the shop, taking as little notice of Ron as though he had been a display of Cockroach Clusters.†   (source)
  • I stood up straight, hoping Cade and Mikey would be intimidated by my regal bearing and divine beauty.†   (source)
  • We tried to be the lovely, regal young women Silvia wanted us to, but the second Kriss's and Marlee's parents made it through the doorway, it all fell apart.†   (source)
  • In reply Kunti took the regal face in her hands, green the face, red the eyes, and kissed him on his brow.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Capitol Building stands regally at the eastern end of the National Mall, on a raised plateau that city designer Pierre L'Enfant described as "a pedestal waiting for a monument."†   (source)
  • Mother gives him a regal nod.†   (source)
  • He was in a despicable cage, caked with his own excrement and urine, and had the lost look of a hapless, utterly defenseless prisoner; but the regal carriage of his head and the size of his frame bespoke the legendary giant he would become.†   (source)
  • He was almost regal.†   (source)
  • Hrothgar nodded regally.†   (source)
  • Judge Ford strode in as regally as an African princess, her noble head swathed in a turban, her tall body draped in yards of handprinted cloth.†   (source)
  • They're even more regal in person.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I'd seen her tip to tail, the whole glorious length of her, and she was truly beautiful, sleek and regal and exquisite, her fur silvery-gray and soft looking.†   (source)
  • The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture.†   (source)
  • She had inherited the Truebas' Spanish and Arab blood, their regal bearing and haughty grin, and the olive skin and dark eyes of her Mediterranean genes, all colored by her mother's heritage, from which she drew a sweetness no Trueba had ever known.†   (source)
  • They'd stopped at The Hollow, in Mellen, and ordered a beer, and as they talked a man walked in followed by a dog, a big dog, gray and white with brown patches, some mix of husky and shepherd or something of that kind, a deep-chested beast with a regal bearing and a joyful, jaunty carriage.†   (source)
  • Then the air blooped out of its neck hole and the gorgeous regal visage of yours truly sank beneath the waves.†   (source)
  • She actually held the door open for him; she even managed a charming curtsy—inappropriately girlish, but Harriet Wheelwright was gifted with those essentially regal properties that make the inappropriate gesture work ...those being facetiousness and sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†   (source)
  • According to her, it was about Maxon needing to find someone who actually looked regal and photographed well with him, someone who would look nice on a stamp.†   (source)
  • His uniform was meant to be brilliant and regal but merely made him look like an overweight Harlequin.†   (source)
  • Her command had been regal, preemptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible.†   (source)
  • I had a moment to appreciate the statue's regal features, its metal brow rimmed with a spiky crown meant to represent the beams of the sun.†   (source)
  • It was purple, and very regal.†   (source)
  • She looked mature, regal, bridal.†   (source)
  • They'd managed to prop up Ra so that he looked a bit more regal with his crook and flail in his hands, though he still had a goofy grin on his face.†   (source)
  • My voice sounds strong, hard—regal.†   (source)
  • Delivery boys and guests in our house frequently mistook Lydia for my grandmother, because Lydia looked quite regal in her wheelchair and she was about my grandmother's age; she had tea with my grandmother every afternoon, and she played cards with my grandmother's bridge club—with those very same ladies whose tea she had once fetched.†   (source)
  • Yet she became infatuated with the magic Dan wrought upon the amateurs at The Gravesend Players, so much so that she accepted a part in Maugham's The Constant Wife; she was the regal mother of the deceived wife, and she proved to have the perfect, frivolous touch for drawing-room comedy—she was a model of the kind of sophistication we could all do well without.†   (source)
  • His hospital gown had changed into regal robes with a collar of gold, but he still looked like the same withered old man.†   (source)
  • Her long skirts swished and she walked with a straight-backed regal stride toward the double doors at the end of the hall.†   (source)
  • It was the barque of the sun god, just like I'd seen in my vision—a once regal ship with a deckhouse and places for twenty oarsmen—but it was now barely able to stay afloat.†   (source)
  • She dimmed them, sat down in the armchair, patting the upholstery, appreciating the chair's regal heaviness for this occasion.†   (source)
  • Then Glaedr spoke his name, and it boomed forth in Eragon'smind like a fanfare of trumpets, regal and yet discordant, colored throughout by Glaedr's grief and anger at Oromis's death.†   (source)
  • And even he had to concede that Joffrey and Margaery made a regal couple, as they stood side-byside between the towering gilded statues of the Father and the Mother.†   (source)
  • He might've been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm.†   (source)
  • "Surely if he was able to turn Nephilim into—into monsters, we ought to be able to find a way to turn them back," said Nasreen Choudhury, the head of the Mumbai Institute, regal in her rune-decorated white sari.†   (source)
  • But Nasuada had to admit that even if Arya donned a gown of rags, she would still appear more regal and dignified than any mortal-born noble.†   (source)
  • Clary saw Maryse Lightwood holding out her hand to a tall green-skinned faerie woman who was just as pale and regal as she was.†   (source)
  • Regal?†   (source)
  • "Oh, like the fact that the charming little gatehouse has been replaced with a fortress," said Sarah, looking regal and splendid in a scarlet wrap from her native Nigeria.†   (source)
  • She could take the tough female rock star and show her vulnerabilities, or pull the humor from the cool, regal megastar.†   (source)
  • John took his time responding, finally descending the Grand Stair in a slow procession that I am certain was intended both to make Douglas wait as well as to indicate John's regal attitude as concerns his former partner.†   (source)
  • By comparison, Prusias was tiny—a mere man in regal robes speaking to a subordinate that must have been a hundred feet tall.†   (source)
  • He looked so regal it was hard to believe he was the same guy who a few hours ago had offered me a suite upgrade and a minibar key.†   (source)
  • Her expression was cool and regal.†   (source)
  • It ran continuously, a man in his forties in a suit and tie, and all the sets were showing slow motion now, riding in a car with his confident wife, and the footage took on a sense of elegy, running ever slower, running down, a sense of greatness really, the car's regal gleam and the murder of some figure out of dimmest lore—a greatness, a kingliness, the terrible mist of tissue and skull, so massively slow, on Elm Street, and they got something to eat and went to the loft, where they played cards for a couple of hours and did not talk about Zapruder.†   (source)
  • She pulled it off well enough, Bryan thought, closing her eyes and giving a regal nod before the lever was pulled.†   (source)
  • That's why we eat regally in the evening, though some men have difficulty sleeping after a full meal.†   (source)
  • She was at least three hundred feet away, but Bourne felt he could almost hear the erratic gasping for breath that accompanied the hesitant movements of the once regal figure stepping forward in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • Pickett rode into the firelight, bronze-curled and lovely, hair down to his shoulders, regal and gorgeous on a stately mount.†   (source)
  • would silently vanish in search of unknown frontiers-the men whose faces were tighter than the faces around them, whose eyes were more direct, whose energy was more conscientiously enduring-the men who were now slipping away, one by one, from every corner of the countryof the country which was now like the descendant of what had once been regal glory, prostrated by the scourge of hemophilia, losing the best of its blood from a wound not to be healed.†   (source)
  • The regal Lee, Virginian gentleman, was appalled when he caught sight of Grant and loudly chastised him for his appearance.†   (source)
  • They would stay there with the Webbs' regal maid, Mrs. Cooper, all under guard until they were called back to Montserrat.†   (source)
  • Overhead a large banner proclaimed: "WELCOME TO THE WORD MARKET" And, from across the square, five very tall, thin gentlemen regally dressed in silks and satins, plumed hats, and buckled shoes rushed up to the car, stopped short, mopped five brows, caught five breaths, unrolled five parchments, and began talking in turn.†   (source)
  • Genet stood regal, happy, her head high, her carriage that of a queen who'd been unshackled and restored to her throne.†   (source)
  • Drawing on history and literature, some fifty books altogether, he examined what he called the modern democratic republics (the little Italian commonwealth of San Marino, Biscay in the Basque region of Spain, the Swiss cantons), modern aristocratic republics (Venice, the Netherlands), and the modern monarchical and regal republics (England, Poland); as well as the ancient democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical republics including Carthage, Athens, Sparta, and Rome.†   (source)
  • The woman was beautiful in a timeless, regal way—like a statue you might admire but could never love.†   (source)
  • "He has a regal look to him," Jon said.†   (source)
  • I think she looks regal.†   (source)
  • Mikhail and Yaakov secured Nabil Awad to one of the chairs with duct tape, and on Fareed Bakarat's signal, a barely perceptible nod of his regal head, they removed the hood.†   (source)
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