Word: sovereignly
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...bursary in one of our large colleges. Several men are transacting business with the Bursar. Enter a Freshman, cap on head: after taking a tour of inspection round the room, he in turn comes up to the Bursar's table, and in a loud voice demands "Change for a sovereign, and a shilling in 3d. bits." Curtain falls. - Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal...
...brought up apparently on moral pap. Their gentle nature shudders at the thought of the disgrace of being watched by proctors, and yet does not hesitate to allow this watchfulness to justify them in a deception and a lie. The poor creatures know no better, for they have no sovereign standard of conduct within themselves. But imagine the discomfort the tender souls will meet with in the world, where the existence of policemen and penitentiaries will be a constant imputation on their virtue; and they will become miserable if indeed they do not become, as when under proctors, liars...
...dramatic works are not numerous, but many of them rank well. "The Lady of Lyons" and "Richelieu" are the two most worthy his genius. Little has been left unsaid in praise of this latter work, which portrays so faithfully the characters of the weak sovereign, Louis XIII., and his powerful ecclesiastical statesman, Richelieu, - a man who made whole nations feel his power...