He would but frown To hear thee talk as though the woodlands there Were built no lordlier than the wide-walled town.
"Locrine - A Tragedy"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
My breasts were lordlier than bright swans.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The lord-like pine looked lordlier than ever among the dismantled oak and maple.
"The Grey Cloak"
Harold MacGrath