(1) I recently made a Pension Credit application for an 83-year-old widow and after numerous telephone calls and a personal interview, she was awarded the princely sum of u00a32.05.(2) As a lad, I used also to cycle to the stadium and leave my bike in someone's back yard for the princely sum of one old penny.(3) The princely State of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British when Faiz Talab Khan (who was made the first Nawab) aided them in their battle against the Marathas.(4) I am receiving a meagre state pension: the princely sum of 18 pence a week.(5) An equally exotic scrambled-egg dish larded with lobster and caviar was notable for the generous portions of lobster, but for the princely sum of $27.50, the eggs were a little runny.(6) In villages such as Butchl Bag, in the parched fields west of Karachi, these workers - paid the princely sum of u00a314 a month - provide a crucial link between rural populations and hospitals.(7) This is so because of a loophole that permits U.S. Cubans to send as much as $1, 200 a year (a princely sum in Cuba) to relatives in this country.(8) As Home Minister between 1947 and 1950, Vallabhbhai Patel integrated the princely states, thus altering the politics and geography of modern India.(9) It was well worth the princely sum I paid for it.(10) Born in the princely family of Kilimanoor near Thiruvananthapuram, Raja Ravi Varma was closely associated with the ruling house of the State of Travancore from the age of 14.(11) If they are so sublimely oblivious to the daily operations of their firms, why are these modern-day plutocrats paid such princely sums, while the vast majority of employees face stagnating or falling real wages?(12) He held his head high and regal, and all of the distinguished princely magnificence was back in his bearing as he marched toward the field.(13) Royal and princely courts, each in declared alliance with one of the Christian churches and usually in concert with the aristocracy, played at least as large a part as they ever had in government and in the shaping of culture.(14) Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum.(15) So, for the princely sum of 75 pence, I placed an advertisement.(16) Conflicting ambitions and personal bickering meanwhile kept princely and noble warlords divided, while their willingness to let the Spaniards ravage frontier provinces sapped any wider support they might have hoped for.
