Meanings of lordly way in English

He tried to pass the whole thing off in his usual lordly way.

An uncivilised people, we call them in our lordly way, but they are young.

Its occupants, too, had a lordly way with them, trying to others, but inimitable.

Then you say where's my trade? I disclaimed trade motives in a lordly way.

And he pocketed the money in a lordly way while Nana gazed at him, dumfounded.

A senior who observed the incident dealt in the lordly way of his kind with the offender.

It was characteristic that, after asking me to dinner, he left me in a lordly way to pay the bill.

It would be a wonder if they didn't have that lordly way of making themselves at home wherever they go.

He bowed from side to side in his own lordly way, and flourished and extended his pudgy palm in courtly courtesy.

Now Nada started like a frightened bird, but quickly gathered up her thoughts, and turned upon me in a lordly way.

He walked around in his lordly way, cocking his eye at his little yellow sons and daughters as they chased the fat little bugs.

Perhaps in his lordly way he felt he could afford himself a few now and then, he was so much cleverer than his neighbours.

He had, indeed, said to himself in a lordly way that Lucy Purcell was a regular little flirt, and was beginning those ways early.

The second thing he did was: to indulge the love of giving that was innate in him; and of giving in a somewhat lordly way.

An experienced alcoholic would have told him that he enjoyed a coffee "hang-over." He wended a lordly way to the nearest motion-picture theatre.

Confound the fellow's grave and lordly ways!