In some ways, perhaps, it was easier to kill the king than it was to kill the notion of kingliness. |
Truly he had not the vast strength and stature of Norway's king, but Alfred's was the kingliness of wisdom and statecraft. |
That kingliness that God has given to it, that joy and beauty for which it is born and which it longs to have, are thus taken away from it. |
Well, when you come to read about Kings in your history-book you will find that size has nothing to do with kingliness. |
Like all inaugural pageants, this one, with its parade and balls and tacky souvenirs, is satisfying in each of us an atavistic love of kingliness. |
The sheer authority in his voice revealed his kingliness, and for a moment I understood Roahin's fear, if not his betrayal. |