Careful Words

kingly (adv.)

kingly (adj.)

The other shape,

If shape it might be call'd that shape had none

Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;

Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,

For each seem'd either,—black it stood as night,

Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,

And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head

The likeness of a kingly crown had on.

Satan was now at hand.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666.

  What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Woodstock. Chap. xxxvii.