queenlike

Updated: June 28, 2025

Miss Purling in her heart rather liked the notion; it gave her a chance of posing like a queen in search of a consort, and years of independence had made her very queenlike and despotic indeed. So much so, that the only man to suit her must be a mere cipher without a will of his own; and he was difficult to find.

Arthur Griffiths - The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood