Before Gilbert wear your stateliest aspect, your tenderest to me, your courtliest to his wife.
"Pauline's Passion and Punishment"
Louisa May Alcott
An intimate friend of Southey was Walter Savage Landor, a man of kingly nature, of a leonine presence, with a most stormy and unreasonable temper, and yet with the courtliest graces of manner and with-said Emerson-a "wonderful brain, despotic, violent, and inexhaustible."
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
"Well, we are, Polly, my child," said old Mr. King, getting out to help her with his courtliest air.
"Five Little Peppers at School"
Margaret Sidney