| 单词 | stateliness |
| 例句 | The meal proceeded with a stateliness and underplayed grandeur. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of all that stateliness, I could not catch up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The writing is nearly biblical in its stateliness, shot through with compressed, poetic description and its main figure's sense of righteousness. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z The high-toned beauty of the cinematography, by Thomas Hardmeier and Rasmus Videbaek, imposes a stateliness on this serious-minded movie that sometimes puts it at odds with the galvanic events it depicts. ‘Out Stealing Horses’ Review: Old Man, Take a Look at Your Life 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z There's a stateliness about it, as if he's hearing the sound of his voice as he speaks. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z The abrupt end of his victory march, and his fidgeting before the parish house, undermined any sense of stateliness. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The Oscar voters loves a bit of poise and stateliness in their period dramas. Anna Karenina: can it beat Les Miserables in the Oscars race? 2012-06-21T15:26:39Z The backdrop of the lovely rich red damask curtain imparts a stateliness. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Pond, an Australian rock band, toppled the stateliness of Britpop anthems into psychedelic turbulence, melting down grandiose riffs or pushing them toward screaming tantrums. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z The temptations of Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play” include cameos by Elizabeth I, Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan, each briefly swanning through with a stateliness that keeps them well above the fray. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A wordless little ditty, like a child singing to herself, is quickly doubled a couple of octaves below; a religious stateliness in the keyboards lies over a deep-pocketed groove, accented by spacey, jazzy guitar lines. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But it would be a false dichotomy to set the energy and experimentation of the up-and-coming against the stateliness of the well established. At London Men’s Fashion Week, Designers Fly the Flag for Individuality 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z While acknowledging that, like many of Self's books, it is "largely a combination of the dryly comic and grotesque," Thorne also detected "a new stateliness". Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-08-24T21:45:09Z I might not want to hear “Rite” played with this sense of majesty and stateliness all the time, but on Thursday, it made a thought-provoking conclusion to a thoroughly engaging evening. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart Default ferocity masked the first movement's stateliness; the two-against-three rhythms were punched hard rather than played expansively. ASMF/Isserlis/Bell ? review 2011-03-08T18:30:17Z In its elegiac final movement, the sonata had a stateliness that recalled the piece Mr. Kuderna performed at the beginning of the concert, an addition to the printed program. Music Review: Memorials and Reveries in a Cozy Cabaret Setting 2011-08-22T22:39:58Z The latter combine the stateliness of stained-glass windows with the vivacity of pop art — half medieval cathedral, half 1960s Vogue. In the galleries: Conversations between mother and daughter, teacher and student 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Most of the tempos approach the stateliness of arena anthems; the arrangements are filled out by strummed guitars and vocal chorales. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z The concrete stateliness of the set, which audience members must cross to get to their seats, is balanced by Arjun Bhasin’s colorful, culturally specific costumes. Onstage in Brooklyn, ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Tries to Capture the Film’s Spirit 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z His depiction of Ian's cruel frigidity is a match by Foy's sharpness, as she trades the distant stateliness she brought to "The Crown" for fumes of aristocratic entitlement. Amazon's gloomy "A Very British Scandal" divorce tale starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z There's been a staid stateliness about his conducting of Mahler especially, which does not leave a good impression when captured on disc. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Webern: Im Sommerwind 2010-06-17T21:25:00Z Part of what distinguishes Davies’ stories has always been the unfashionable stateliness of their telling, their quality of contemplation. Appreciation: Terence Davies, a master filmmaker, brought quiet passion and lyrical beauty to the screen 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z While a federal ban would stop people from merely crossing stateliness to acquire semiautomatic firearms, he said, “states really need to lead the way.” Colorado lawmakers to consider ban on semiautomatic weapons 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z There’s a homespun stateliness to Rubinstein’s portrayal of Ike, who in the study of his post-presidency home in Gettysburg, Penn., reviews the central episodes of his life. Review: The main reason to see “Eisenhower”? Actor John Rubinstein's earnest portrayal of Ike 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z For all its stateliness, Grayson Stadium had fallen into disrepair, no working phones or plumbing, ceiling tiles missing. Meet the Savannah Bananas, the baseball team captivating fans and MLB 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z I wanted something more substantial, that would replicate the stateliness and height of the original. A towering mushroom Reuben that channels the flavors of the deli classic 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s put some weight back on, and he walked with a renewed stateliness without assistance or a cane. Commentary: As U.S. orchestras cancel, Europe's reopen. Mirga and Zubin lead the way 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Staples’ “Purple Rain” had a stateliness that made the song sound like it had been written for her. Deep cuts and idiosyncratic visions highlight Grammy tribute concert to Prince 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s easy to get swept up by the refined stateliness surrounding this messy odyssey of grief and trauma. Review: Adaptation of ‘The Goldfinch’ is elegant but flawed 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Filmed almost entirely on a sound stage, the film has a handsome, composed quality that lends the story an attractive stateliness but also seems to keep it at arm’s length. Review | Mike Leigh’s powers of observation and storytelling fail him in ‘Peterloo’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But even as he constructed a revolutionary leadership based on his stateliness and public presentation, the cold reality of the coming war quickly grew dire. Review | A conspiracy that threatened to stop America’s independence before it arrived 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Set in the present day against a background of old places, including location filming at Oxford and Venice, Italy, it has a winning stateliness matched by the actors' underplaying. Review: The young and otherworldly of 'Roswell, New Mexico,' 'A Discovery of Witches' and 'Deadly Class' 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z David Ferry more than succeeds in capturing the stateliness, as his rendering of the Proem, the epic’s introductory lines, into English blank verse shows: Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Her stage manner suggests a mesmerizing stateliness, easygoing, yet intense. Jennifer Koh and the 'Shared Madness' of coming between a violinist and her violin 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Teemu Selanne, another prolific scorer who notched a record 73 goals as a rookie in 1992-1993 and played until age 44, said he was even more impressed with Crosby’s stateliness than with his stardom. Sidney Crosby Stands Out as the New All-Stars Gather 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Pasadena’s annual Doo Dah Parade offers an irreverent counterpoint to the pomp and stateliness of the Rose Parade. Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z He’d get all the telegenic stateliness of real state visits, minus the diplomatic damage — all the political theater, minus the annoying politics. The case for making Donald Trump king of America 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z One point of agreement among shopkeepers was that their neighborhood better reflected Mrs. Clinton’s stateliness than their borough’s overall reputation as a hip, post-college landing spot. Business Owners in Brooklyn Heights Start Subtle Lobbying of Clinton Campaign 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z The poem seems angled for stateliness, with its regular meters and debonair rhymes. An Alaskan Poet’s Lyrics of Sex and Power 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It had none of the stateliness of the older movements, and none of their careful planning. Why Obama's Second Inaugural Speech Is Historic for Gay Americans 2013-01-22T17:05:23Z With time the ceremony grew in stateliness and impressiveness. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Foreign business visitors were always wowed by the stateliness of his Harrisburg residence, said Edward Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania, who happily lived there during his tenure. When Governors Reject the Mansions 2012-04-12T00:57:15Z But the latter had the additional element of grandeur derived from the presence of a court unrivalled for the elaborate stateliness and splendor of its ceremonial code. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The building was old and falling to ruin, but it had a touch of stateliness, for its foundations were laid when the Spanish conquerors were influenced by the austere beauty of Moorish art. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z There was something of Oriental stateliness in the unruffled, imperturbable, bland composure, with which he bore himself amid the throng of demonstrative and titled adulators. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z It drags the nobleness and kindness out of the port and bearing of a man; it takes the soul out of his laugh, and all stateliness and freedom from his walk. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z For the most part, they were tall, strong men, and all had a gait and bearing of peculiar stateliness. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z It is built of fair and strong stone, not affecting fineness, but honorably representing a firm stateliness, for it was handsome without curiosity, and homely without negligence. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He saw the giant trees in the park, the gay flowers in the gardens, the stateliness and restfulness of the old mansion. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z He saw a girl, slightly above the middle height, graceful and rounded of figure, with a grave stateliness of carriage which oddly became her. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z "Is her ladyship's coach there?" the young gentleman cried with great stateliness. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Thus his great metre, the Alcaic, has a character of stateliness and majesty in addition to the energy and impetus originally imparted to it by Alcaeus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The Hall is the more commodious; the old Abbey has greater stateliness. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z "Ah," said the girl with a simplicity that had a certain stateliness in it, "I think I would go anywhere with you." Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z "No," Mrs. Hammond said, waving aside her daughter's flippancy and speaking with some stateliness. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Aronach did not say "thou" here, I noticed, and his voice was even courteous, though he still preserved his stateliness. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z No writer is more Roman in the stateliness and dignity, the terseness, occasionally even in the sobriety and bare literalness, of his diction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z There is not so much quaintness in the epitaphs here as in the old Puritan grave-yards of Boston and Salem; less even of stateliness, of pomp, and of human pride than is usual. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Few of the trees were yet showing much green, but the buds were swelling and we could enjoy the stateliness of the trunks. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z It is an antique edifice of some architectural pretensions, displays five fine gables, and has spacious wainscoted and frescoed apartments, with quaint mantels and other evidences of colonial stateliness. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z She had come into her heritage of womanhood, and bore it with a shy stateliness. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z It possesses a stateliness, combined with a bounding energy, which render it very effective. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Therefore she convened a deputation of the States; entered their assembly with the stateliness of an earthly goddess, and the words of her mouth dropped like honey from her virgin lips. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z In the silence of her long distress, She sits with pious stateliness; As if she felt the eye of God Were on her childless lone abode. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z He carries off the dignity with great stateliness, conscious of the vast gulf fixed between him and tenants with no initials after their name. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Her strength made weakness, her stateliness turned to trembling for his sake—the spectacle swept away his good resolves as the wind blows the loose petals from a fading rose. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z "If God made me a dwarf," said she, with a freezing stateliness, "it is very courteous of you to reproach me with it--the most delicate courtesy, upon my word." Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Then the old man threw the corner of his white mantle once more over his shoulder, and, with a stateliness born of his newly royal spirit, departed from the room. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Whereupon, to the delight of all the rest, Mr. Fudby bowed again with even greater stateliness than before. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Swan, swon, n. a genus of birds constituting a very distinct section of the Duck family Anatid�, having the neck as long as the body, noted for grace and stateliness of movement on the water.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z "I think you are extraordinarily horrid," she said again with a cold dignity, and hoped that her stateliness would crush her inquisitor. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z And with great stateliness and dignity she walked for ten yards down the hillside. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z It was my intention to cross over that night to Tresco and report my ill-success, which I was resolved to do with a deal of stateliness. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z She rustled forward with great stateliness, fan unfurled, head held high, her gloved fingers resting lightly on Lovelace's velvet-clad arm. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Lady Oxford remarked the distant stateliness in Kelly's tone and was in a hurry to retrieve the slip she had made. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z We watched the taxicabs coursing with their noses down to the street, we watched the rocking hansoms, and the lumbering stateliness of buses. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Jan Groover, whose relentlessly formal still lifes of mundane objects brought a sense of Renaissance stateliness to postmodern photography, died on Jan. 1 in Montpon-Ménestérol, France, where she had lived since 1991. Jan Groover, Postmodern Photographer, Dies at 68 2012-01-12T04:55:11Z The good woman coloured deeply; and, drawing back with a little air of stateliness, said, 'You are welcome to poor Fido, ma'am. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z This faithless world, my home, I have surveyed, Yea, and with all my wit deep question made, But found no moon with face so bright as thine, No cypress in such stateliness arrayed. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z She dropped her stateliness, however, when the door was closed behind her, and, hurrying across the hall, lay in wait behind a shrubbery for Wogan's return. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z She was rich as always with her large beauty, and stately now with the stateliness of a strong woman six months gone with child. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He spoke with an old-world courtesy and the ingenuous stateliness of an infant prince. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Mr. Brett, pursing his lips, began to deal the cards with great stateliness. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z In the museums at the Worcester works there are specimens of many beautiful services, designed in accordance with the contemporary ideas of pomp and stateliness. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z “He was just attracted by the stateliness and the beauty of the church, and the antiquity, and that’s what prodded his historical interest,” Mr. Novak said. Newt Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics 2011-12-17T05:25:49Z At one corner Mrs. Neff sat erect among the cushions in a sleepy stateliness. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Soon he was not contented with merely copying what he saw, he invented for himself, and it is only just to say that, in stateliness of step, few dogs could come up to him. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z This one sat eyeing him, an embodiment of Eastern stateliness, in snowy flowing garments, the folds of his turban arranged round the conical kulla which just peeped above it, with an almost mathematical nicety. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z And in representing deities he so fully anthropomorphized them that they became men and women, only raised above the level of everyday life and endowed with a superhuman stateliness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z To add this modern bit to that fine Colonial stateliness! Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z It was therefore necessary to impress on him the importance of “proper” form, which she immediately undertook, and addressed him with calm stateliness. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Then the golden sun rose in slow stateliness on the horizon, and that flood of glorious light caused even those who had rejoiced in his supposed death to welcome his re-appearance. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z The young man hurried to the window, and saw, on the roof of the house, not very far away, Menino himself, hopping about with delight, and full of pride and stateliness. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Her air to her schoolmates was marked by a certain stateliness and distance; as if she had other thoughts than theirs, and was not of them. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z In its appearance it is said to have 'less grace than the American Elm, but more stateliness and grandeur.' Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The girl rose with a grave curtsy and there was a touch of stateliness in her manner. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z And no woman could have been more beautiful than the tall Sicilian whose grave stateliness, a little stern from the furrowing of brows still touched with Saracen blood, faced Herrick from the table's farther end. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z He never could acquire the deliberate stateliness of Louis XIV. who was born and brought up within the narrow limits of regal etiquette. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z It was a perennial tribute to that stateliness and dignity which she had made her own. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Here there are restraint and sweetness; it is as if we listen to the delicacy of Mendelssohn after the strength and stateliness of Beethoven. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Elizabeth, large and pink-skinned like her father, was by no means without impressiveness and even stateliness. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The Italians by gathering together make a natural festa, as by walking they make a natural procession—something that is graceful and unselfconscious, absolutely simple without missing stateliness. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z But as you walk from room to room, amazed at the accumulation of wealth and proud tradition, you perceive how each casual object makes its separate contribution to the general impression of stateliness. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Lowell, you know, confessed to being “a tory in his nerves;” but Longfellow, with all his stateliness of manner, was nobly and perfectly democratic. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z The girls could not look at this monument without being impressed by its stateliness and noble features. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z She was very alluring, with her reposeful stateliness, dark eyes that shone with light when she smiled, and dark hair that emphasised the clear ivory tinting of the patrician face beneath it. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z A Latin scholar of the highest order, avoiding in his compositions a tendency to declamation, he developed a stateliness of phrase which was marked by clearness and simplicity. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z They praised the stateliness of his domes, and extolled the honour of his family. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Some day, when the frost was quite dispelled, they would laugh over it together—over her fears, her innocent stratagems for the accomplishment of her object, Orrin's stateliness, and Roy's blindness to her perturbation. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Winnie can throw upon her mother the burden of its stateliness, and Mrs. French will make a charming dowager. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z As the chorus girls still persisted in their display of mannered stateliness, the men listened to Harrigan Blood, who had begun to coin ideas. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Tennyson cannot equal the stateliness of Milton; but Milton is the only poet with whom, in respect of blank verse, he need greatly fear comparison. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There is a fine stateliness, and p. 30at the same time an exquisite courtesy, in his address. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z It was like the finest Delacroix in aspect and tone, but with a gravity and stateliness of form very foreign to that brilliant but epileptic genius. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z To the stateliness of a Greek goddess she united the beauty of a Cleopatra. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z He marched forward, regulating his steps to the sound of the drums, with much gravity and stateliness. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z She was well-to-do, and dressed with old-fashioned stateliness in heavy black silk. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Here, to quite a remarkable extent, we find the old stateliness of the fabulous society, the old ceremonial procession of wonderful events and incredible people. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z He had unconsciously drawn himself up to his full height, and, though slighter, his form matched in symmetry, grace and stateliness that of the older man. The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land 2011-04-11T02:00:11.027Z The authors advanced no pretensions to artistic elegance or stateliness of style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The hostess led us into her best room, where the doctor received us with distant stateliness, and his daughter with sweet courtesy. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Still there was no mistaking that imperious posture and stateliness of form, or the braids of jetty hair. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z "So that we owe the honor of your visit to the most single-minded of motives, sir," said Lady Netherby, whose manner had now assumed all its stateliness. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Her slower movements had even a touch of stateliness, as though to match the trailing elegance of embroidered chiffons. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z She welcomed him with a curtsey full of the old-time stateliness, and to me she extended her hand to be kissed. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z He was considerate to others, but he never showed a disposition to lay aside the stateliness and reserve which he assumed. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Rose also wondered at the unusual dignity and stateliness of the lady, and with renewed admiration for her queenly bearing she remained silent. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z His unrivalled stateliness of bearing was combined with unusual lightness of movement, and he was a most impressive figure, especially on occasions of state ceremonial. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z But in proportion as civilization in England, to say nothing of the rest of Europe, puts off the burdensome to enjoy simplicity, America, it strikes me, chases the tail of an antiquated, disappearing stateliness. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z "I accept the risk," says Nolly, with much stateliness and forthwith retires to make himself presentable. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z "Pray come into my house," said the Master of the Inn, with more stateliness of manner than he usually had with a new Brother. The Master of the Inn 2011-02-26T03:00:51.930Z A very slight increase of stateliness might possibly have marked him in his poverty, and an air of more reserved dignity, which showed itself in his manner to strangers. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z His young wife, in consideration of her husband's position, had assumed a certain stateliness of demeanour which she did her very best to maintain, and which was in comic contrast to her fresh, youthful appearance. Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:37.767Z Thus were they fairly launched into another discussion, when the door opened, and Herr Pancratius Willmann appeared upon the threshold, in all the stateliness of his obesity, with broad red countenance. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z The progress of the sick Queen over the water, was not without its stateliness and solemnity, mixed with a certain joyousness, acceptable to, though not to be shared in by the royal invalid. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z He is an old man and blind, leaning upon a staff and moving with slow stateliness, though wearing the Ivy and the Bacchic fawn-skin. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z "I am the culprit, my Lady," said Kate, approaching with all the quiet stateliness of her peculiar manner. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z He gave me one look, and in spite of the stateliness of the occasion we both collapsed, much to the surprise of my men who had never seen the major really hilarious before. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z Wallmoden did not seem at all surprised at the impression which the beauty and stateliness of his wife too apparently caused, but accepted it as something natural. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z The Pavilion had been built by Betsy's father as a ballroom, and had a certain stateliness. Napoleon's Young Neighbor 2011-01-24T03:00:18.637Z This was a great relief to me, as I hardly felt enough at home to have quite recovered from my old sense of oppression at the extreme stateliness of the meal. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z Her figure, though somewhat bent, gave the impression of stateliness. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z Flowering plants and clipped evergreens border the broad, grassy terraces and an air of simple stateliness pervades this charming Virginia garden. Beautiful Gardens in America 2011-01-11T03:00:36.140Z This effect was gained partly from the prim box borders and the straight, central path, and partly from the stateliness of the old-fashioned flowers. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z In this battle of ironclads there are no clouds of canvas, no beautiful models of marine architecture, none of the stateliness and majesty which have marked hundreds of great naval engagements. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The forest of Chantilly, which covers over six thousand acres, forms an excellent foil for the formal stateliness of the gardens. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z It's a work of middle-class propriety striving for stateliness in lieu of elegance, bereft of anything approaching passion in exterior design. Specs on the 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDi 2010-06-27T04:00:00Z "You can retain its elegance and its stateliness and all that, but you've got to get some energy back in the place," he says. 2010-01-15T05:00:00Z Those found in New England depict a stateliness that savors of Puritanical influence, while those in the South convey, through their breadth, an impression of the cordiality which is characteristic of that section. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The bowed form of former stateliness left for ever the grounds she might have owned without even daring to offer one word of repentance or explanation to her son. Irene Iddesleigh Indeed, the June morning was beautiful, and the foxgloves ringing the white dial post above the fresh green of our lawn had an indescribable air of delicate stateliness in the sun. The Idyl of Twin Fires It acted on the imagination through the sense of vastness, pomp, stateliness, and solemnity; that of Greece through the sense of life, joy, beauty, and harmony animating its ceremonial and embodying itself in its symbols. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is possible that the great Roman country seat, in its vast extent, although not in the stateliness of its exterior, may have surpassed the corresponding mansions of our time. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The courteous manners of Hernan Cortes did more to mollify the ardour of the novice than could any degree of stateliness. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Frail as she was, almost shrinkingly timid in her manner, there were times when she drew up her tall figure in something like its former stateliness. The Window at the White Cat There was stateliness and dignity—an air of authority about her. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath These will be reviewed as conditions acting on the imagination, and forming the intellectual atmosphere in the midst of which the productions of poetical genius expanded into various shapes and dimensions of beauty and stateliness. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil They were taken with great stateliness and dignity, but a moment later the room was filled with groans, coughs, shrieks and wrathful exclamations. Dolly's College Experiences She may have lacked the bearing and carriage of a great lady, but what stateliness of manner can rival the pretty softnesses of a gentle girl wholly in love. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec It emphasized a certain stateliness in the woman, akin to the stateliness of the bird whose plumage they had copied. Cinderella Jane It was so foreign to her abnormal stateliness and her unnatural gaiety. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Its majestic stateliness is enhanced by its snowy whiteness. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 It is curious to contrast the stateliness of De Quincey’s literary style, the elaborate full-dress manner, with the extreme simplicity of the man. The Vagabond in Literature Its streets are very wide and this gives a certain stateliness and air of hospitality to the town. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Groomed till he shone, his new leather collar adorned with a flaring orange-satin bow, Njal entered with the quiet stateliness of one to drawing-rooms born, widely waving his tail in salutation to the entire company. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Such was Malgares's stateliness of manner that the Commandant, although his superior officer, was bowing in most apologetic fashion before our friend had ceased speaking. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Next to the graceful stateliness of his phrase, its extreme sobriety, not rejecting legitimate ornament, but seldom or never trespassing into the rhetorical, has to be observed. A Short History of French Literature All her dignity and gentle stateliness of manner seemed, under this new condition of things, to desert her. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days Mr. Champion advanced with a fine stateliness and nobility of welcome. Carnival They were rich in color and regal in form and stateliness, as on long stems each full-blown rose stood boldly forth above the bush of leaves below. A Modern Wizard Groups of these magnificent plants, with their sub-tropical effect, cannot be surpassed for nobility of outline and stateliness of flower. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The man, for his part, decided that here was a picture he should never forget; the erect stateliness of the pose: the expression: the sublimity of a great resolution which had crushed down terror. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising “I thank you, Senhor,” replied the old Portuguese, again assuming all the stateliness of manner which usually characterised him. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant: break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman. The Bible Story There was sweetness mingled with dignity in her deportment, in which Castilian stateliness seemed to be happily tempered by the vivacity of her own nation. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Perhaps as difficult a quality to attain as any which the poetry of the future will be called upon to study is stateliness, what the French call ‘la vraie hauteur’. The Future of English Poetry Petrarch's sonnets have a more ethereal grace and a more perfect finish; Shakespeare's more passion; Milton's stand supreme in stateliness; Wordsworth's in depth and delicacy. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes On foggy mornings very considerable numbers may be seen in these situations, moving along with great stateliness, their broad fan-like tail expanded to its fullest extent. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 Greek standards of feminine beauty included height and stateliness. Greek Women The majestic rhythm of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s verses loses none of its stateliness in this musical setting. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Mr. Wootton has not intended to make them laugh, and he resumes, with stateliness, as though they had not interrupted him. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Nevertheless, national character touched each nation’s dress—the Venetian loving the stateliness of flowing line, the Germans grotesque slashings and jaggings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Hood, somehow, breathes the very spirit of the State it stands for; its charm is the essence of the beauty of its surroundings, its stateliness the keynote of the strength of the sturdy West. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making Even in the momentary glance which, on entering, I threw around me, I perceived that no studied etiquette or courtly stateliness prevailed. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I It is not brilliant or charming; it has neither great strength nor great stateliness. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) But let them know that its root rests on noble pillars; and in the whole range of strength and stateliness, what pillars are there stronger and statelier than those glorious two—Genius and Liberty? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) There are no stateliness, no undue ornament, no gaudy display such as minor mortals may delight in. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He had greeted us upon our entrance:—“That is the honourable King, and I am his interpreter,” he had said, with more stateliness than truth. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Hentzner, a German traveller who visited England in the year 1598, particularly mentions the stateliness of the building, the assemblage of different nations, and the quantities of merchandise. Old and New London Volume I In reality she was unusually handsome and as she grew older her tall stateliness increased her distinction. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor "Ask away, lad," said the old lawyer, not much impressed by Hugo's stateliness of demeanour. Under False Pretences A Novel Miss Jones arose with flaming cheeks and eyes in which the unseen tears trembled; she made Mr. Grover a sweeping courtesy and moved with a good deal of superfluous stateliness toward the door. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Her air to her schoolmates was marked by a certain stateliness and distance, as if she had other thoughts than theirs, and was not of them. Home Life of Great Authors Consequently the best Dutch architects of that time erected their finest and most important edifices in Amsterdam, and very often exclusively built there; and this accounts for her assuming that individual aspect of stateliness. Rembrandt's Amsterdam Any ornamentation would have been a profanation of the natural dignity and stateliness of Li-Hung-Chang. Across Asia on a Bicycle Spenser accepted from his age the quaint stateliness which is characteristic of his poem. Spenser We may collect the excellency of the understanding then, by the glorious remainders of it now: and guess at the stateliness of the building by the magnificence of its ruins.... Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford This will afford you an excuse for a return journey to the pavilion, during which your gait will lose nothing in stateliness if you can manage to adopt the goose-step. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 For warmth, unequalled; for a sort of pensive, Roman stateliness, sometimes warming into Romantic guitarism, it is simply without concurrent; it starts alone. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) With what stateliness did he use to carry my lady behind him on a puissant mule, for in those days coaches and side-saddles were not in fashion, and the ladies rode behind their squires. Old Roads and New Roads Bentley, with his peculiar idiom, had censured “all the 387 stiffness and stateliness, and operoseness of style, quite alien from the character of ‘Phalaris,’ a man of business and despatch.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The poem is pitched on a high key; the keynote is struck in the opening lines, and the verses move to the end with stateliness and dignity. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series "Is not the palace that he hath raised for thee by his transcendent accomplishments a marvel of beauty and stateliness, and one that Sultans might envy?" The Brass Bottle “One great aim, like a guiding star, above— Which tasks strength, wisdom, stateliness, to lift His manhood to the height that takes the prize.” The Brownings Their Life and Art A little more stateliness of style would add to the force of his criticisms. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 His shoulders swung jauntily–more than jauntily, call it insolently–as he walked, and his trunk swayed with some stateliness as his proud hands and legs performed their grand functions. In the Heart of a Fool He spoke to none as he walked in grave stateliness among the merry groups, acknowledging bold challenges and gay banterings only with a bow. The Rustler of Wind River A certain stateliness and formality of character appears, however, to have made him many enemies in England, and they did not scruple to gratify their dislike or jealousy during his mission to Canada. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The whole of this mountainous region is copiously watered by limpid streams and springs, and the vegetable productions are of most remarkable stateliness, beauty, and variety. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha "To Celia" is perhaps slightly the better of the two, having a very commendable stateliness of cadence, and a gravity of thought greater than that of "Consolation". Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The sportive girl is unconsciously moulded into stateliness and grace by the floating clouds, the bending willow, and even by silent sympathy with the290 motions of the storm. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "I am glad of that," said the girl with a certain stateliness. Kildares of Storm Even the General's courtly politeness is toned down into something like affection, and all his artificial stateliness takes its natural level, when contrasted by the simple dignity of this young man's nature. Mabel's Mistake The lily's stateliness thou dost not own, Nor glow voluptuous of the damask rose, Thou canst not emulate the laurel's crown, Nor, like the Cereus, watch while all repose. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 Her face was sad and very pale and it had not lost its stateliness. Tante The house by the sea shore stands up in its old picturesque stateliness, and within the sunshine never fails, and the summer of content is never disturbed. A Noble Woman In truth, H�l�ne's fair beauty and stateliness, the white dignity of a creature so far above his experience, awed him a little. Angelot A Story of the First Empire The French court-dress, or any court-dress, must appear contemptible in its contrast with the stateliness of this people of silks and shawls, jewelled weapons, and cloth of gold. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Her form was largely but most elegantly framed, and exhibited a classic boldness of contour that perfectly harmonized with her stateliness of carriage. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. She sank upon a chair and, still with unflawed stateliness, presented the back of her head to Mrs. Talcott's skilful manipulations. Tante The stateliness of her figure completed the impression of a Roman matron. Dreamers of the Ghetto This town is of great interest, though, as Camden wrote two centuries ago, it is more eminent for its "pleasant situation and antiquity than for anything of beauty and stateliness." England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel His stateliness was a sham; his perfidy and hypocrisy surprised even the land baron. The Strollers In spite of whirling snow, and gale, and frost, they had grown slowly to an impressive stateliness. The Greater Power There was almost an air of stateliness about him when at last he followed the trail of his important cavalcade in under the shadows of the forest. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White She lifted her nose with amiable stateliness, as if to imply that Richling might not believe this, but that it was true, nevertheless. Dr. Sevier Clothed as it is with clinging ivy and climbing roses, the house suggests an effect of both stateliness and rusticity. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia There is a solemn stateliness about Ruskin's descriptions of the mountains, which in the last passage of the chapter on The Mountain Gloom rises to the impassioned cadences of the prophet. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Not a twig stirred; the tall spires were black, and motionless, and solemn, and he felt that their stateliness emphasized his own feebleness and inconsequence. The Greater Power Her color was rather marked, she looked strangely alert and forceful, and something about her dress gave her a touch of stateliness, for Carrie had well chosen her English clothes. Partners of the Out-Trail Though his wife had brought him money, Sandymere had long been the property of the Challoners, and the old house had a picturesque stateliness, while every field and farmstead had been well cared for. Blake's Burden The loftiness and stateliness of the room are thereby emphasized, but the effect is less restful. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia But at the king's last words Naarboveck-Fantômas drew himself up to a semblance of stateliness. A Nest of Spies "I am Miss Cameron," she said, with a stateliness that seemed to convert the sunbonnet into a crown, and the basket of eggs into a scepter. Treasure Valley Luncheons, in this country, are very apt to possess much of the formality of a dinner, and are written or engraved, according to the degree of stateliness that is to mark the occasion. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society And as a child, she was against her mother, passionately against her mother, she craved for some spirituality and stateliness. The Rainbow Courtly suggests that which befits a royal court, and is used of external grace and stateliness without reference to the prompting feeling; as, the courtly manners of the ambassador. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions He has not the stateliness of Webster, and is devoid of the power of arousing enthusiasm. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 She knew at once 58 that she wouldn’t be able to eat amid this stateliness any more than in the glitter of last evening’s restaurant. The Dust Flower Constant practice in the solemnities of street-worship—uncovering their heads and bowing low before their numerous saints and shrines—may have some influence upon the stateliness of Russian politeness. The Land of Thor Her unconscious stateliness of girlish form, and the conscious shyness of her manner, were the loveliest inconsistency in the world. Theo A Sprightly Love Story Her Majesty was attired with equal stateliness and simplicity, for that was not an era of superb or extravagant dress. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Something he had lost, no doubt, of the grace and daintiness of his baby days; but he had also gained much—gained in stateliness and dignity, as well as in size and weight and strength. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Mrs. Leslie had been astonished at Alexia's beauty and stateliness, sympathetic and questioning over her story, and, upon hearing that she was to remain in the Doctor's house, had been amazed. A Bachelor's Dream The addition wanted the stateliness of the original fabric. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 On her way to church, Lady More returned the greetings of her friends with a stateliness not unseemly at that ceremonious time in one who was the lady of the Lord High Chancellor. A Book About Lawyers The Virgin is of the same tender type as in the Brera and Florence Academy pictures, but with an added stateliness and gravity. Luca Signorelli Flowers and silks and silver lit up its stateliness. Anthony Lyveden The one upon the shore was the oldest and largest house in the valley, severely simple in line and with a certain air of stateliness. Master of the Vineyard Sometimes her eyes filled with glad tears, at the wonderful loveliness and stateliness of nature around her; the sense of beauty overcame all other feelings; filling and satisfying and also concealing a certain promise. The End of a Coil I felt a tugging at my heart, Melody; the place stood so lonely and forlorn, yet with a stateliness that seemed noble. Rosin the Beau The extraordinary richness and stateliness of the measure has escaped no critic. A History of Elizabethan Literature A second or two later her carriage passed the window, she sitting upright in it, her curious stateliness of demeanour unaltered. Love of Brothers The words were formal enough, and the quaint stateliness of the handwriting conveyed its own message of reserve and distance but the signature thrilled her through and through. Master of the Vineyard Moving with deliberate stateliness, she crossed to a chair near a small table and sat down, taking up a book. From the Car Behind Madame de Montbazon, on the contrary, was free of speech, bold and easy in her tone, full of stateliness and pride. Political Women, Vol. 1 There is a stateliness of which Death holds the patent: and then, again, Time can be kind to the dead. Jonah and Co. His home was devoid of even the most essential conveniences despite its air of stately luxury, a stateliness which modern wealth can never emulate. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan A small number of persons, of high rank, enjoyed the distinguished honor of being present in his chamber as the monarch, with all suitable stateliness of ceremony, exchanged one royal garment for another. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series The vastness of the city overpowered him; the stateliness of the buildings appeared to him the work of giants; and he almost shrank from entering it, through a feeling of his own littleness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 There had been something of a mother's tenderness in her love for Bertie, which made her appear more than her real age and gave decision and stateliness to her manner. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Out of the gorgeous pageant mote-ridden rays issued like messengers, to badge the cold grey stone with tender images and set a smile upon the face of stateliness. Jonah and Co. "Good-bye, my son," she answered, with a bow of strained stateliness. The Picture of Dorian Gray That she was dignified, even to stateliness, is shown us by the statement made by Lawrence Washington, of Chotauk, a relative and playmate of George in boyhood, who was often a guest at her house. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 We wonder at the eccentricities of the priesthood, at the conceit of the hereditary nobility, at the affectation of majestic stateliness inherent in royalty. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities And this she repeated yesterday with some stateliness, and a great deal of high-minded resignation. The Vicar of Bullhampton If Warwick Hall suggested ancient stateliness on the outside, it was informal and frivolous enough within, when forty girls were taking possession of their rooms on the opening day of the school year. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation There was strength in her firmly molded lip, sensibility in her large dark eyes, power in her broad, smooth brow, and a certain stateliness in the outlines of her tall, slim figure. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time She seemed to have shrunk to a very small size as she sat in the midst of all this high-pitched, broad-proportioned stateliness. A Beautiful Alien She is elegantly dressed in white and, though she has recovered her usual stateliness and composure, is a picture of radiant happiness. The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts He advanced from the wood as I have already described, and saluting the astonished Pawnees with a certain stateliness, opened the conversation. Footprints in the Forest Mrs. Gladwyne made a picture, she thought, sitting with the dainty china in her beautiful hands; she possessed the grace and something of the stateliness which is associated with the old r�gime. The Long Portage Could he mean this: he who prided himself on the becoming stateliness of his house? The Prodigal Father “Oh, good-morning, Miss Leigh!” responded Berta, advancing with a tread the stateliness of which was somewhat impaired by a loosely flapping sole. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls He saw her still face, her slow smiling, the proud, sweet stateliness of her pacing steps. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel If her party was grand Cousin Maria was not; she indulged in no assumption of stateliness and no attempt at graduated welcomes. A London Life and Other Tales The room had an air of stateliness in its severe simplicity, and its owner, sitting just inside the ring of brightness, clad in conventional black and white, looked in harmony with it. The Long Portage She passed on with her aged stateliness, but often turning back her head and smiling at him, like one willing to recognize a secret intimacy of connection. The Scarlet Letter While there was a stateliness about their movements, there were also the most startling acrobatic surprises, made possible by the feeble gravity. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner However, it has a deliberative stateliness and a certain monarchal tone. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 The weightiness of thought, the enormous scope, the stateliness without pedantry or affectation, and the nobility of style, of one literary product History of the World. of his imprisonment insured it against any such casualty. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Age had but slightly spoiled her beauty; she had still a striking presence, and a manner in which a trace of stateliness was counterbalanced by gentle good-humor. The Long Portage The entire absence of pretense, of stateliness, of a desire to be thought a personage and not a mere person, is scarcely more universal in Switzerland than here. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. "He has done so," replied the countess, with undiminished stateliness. Fairy Fingers A Novel At one time in one of the rooms he happened to be talking with the duchess and two other women of high rank, two of them women of great beauty and stateliness. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Though the proceedings had been a travesty of justice, they had been invested hitherto with a scenic stateliness. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography What think you of callas—their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But stateliness sits ill upon him, and incomparably his best scene was one wherein he appears in disguise as a bookseller tempting the virtue of a poverty-stricken author. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The countess received them with a freezing formality which would have awed any visitors less unsuspicious of the cause of this augmented stateliness. Fairy Fingers A Novel You know the sort of thing—gems and glitter, colour, scent, beauty, stateliness, strength. Gossamer 1915 Now, however, they were exceedingly respectful, and it was by them that Menka's gift of welcome, two reindeer roasts, was carried forward with a certain stateliness. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II The stateliness of his style, and the pomp with which he ushers trivial events, were less apparent when the topics were new. The History of Tasmania, Volume I "There was a strength, a stateliness, a dignity, and an artistic finish to all his greatest pulpit efforts that compelled a hearing." American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) She rose up, not quickly, but with all her wonted stateliness, and with a firm and measured pace walked out of the room. Fairy Fingers A Novel In his greater compositions there may be found more rigid stateliness than graceful dignity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II It was this meeting which had cut short Mrs Rowland’s whispers with Mr Walcot, and brought her down the aisle in all her stateliness, with her train of children behind her. Deerbrook Animal talk, I feel sure, has lost something of its stateliness since the days when our French author overheard it. Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks From the French of La Fontaine "I am sorry to have troubled you," said Janetta, not without stateliness, although her lips trembled a little as she spoke. A True Friend A Novel In his "Defence of Poetry" the youthful exuberance of the romancer has passed into the earnest vigour and grandiose stateliness of the rhetorician. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The jewel hung richly at Wych Hazel's side, giving a curious touch of stateliness to the little lady. The Gold of Chickaree A beautiful sight they were, quite equalling in grace and stateliness the lordly deer. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The Austrian Ambassador, Count Hatzfeldt, famed for his stateliness, for his punctiliousness in ceremonial, fell a victim to popular misapprehension. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III But I learnt to love it for better things than stateliness, before very long. Janet's Love and Service The members of the Court acquire a certain stateliness by their lofty fellowship. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Below, in broad stages that fell away toward a wooded valley, lay other gardens, deriving a vague stateliness from their successive balustrades and sculptured fountains. Sacrifice The state with its posts of honour, patriotism and national pride; the stateliness of ceremonies, the delusion of caste and nobility—what is it but folly? Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The house itself retained strong marks of former stateliness, especially in one projecting wing, too remote from the yard to be devoted to the domestic purposes of the farmer's family. Country Lodgings To-day she passed me in the press, And turning with a quick surprise I wondered at her stateliness, I wondered at her altered eyes. Alcyone It was his massive stateliness as a whole. From a Terrace in Prague Its hat-making, rope factories, and tanneries are quite important; the shops of its main streets are not without a tempting attractiveness, and there is all the provincial stateliness of Saint-Remy with much less stagnancy. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 In severe dignity of features and stateliness of carriage the Armenian females are not unlike the Circassian and the Georgian. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia They walked in silence across to the dining-room, and Betty, awed by the big table, the noiseless butler, and the cold, formal stateliness of the meal, sat up in her big chair, subdued and still. Odd He has more than once,' the old soldier went on with a certain stateliness, 'expressed a certain regard for me. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea Perhaps gaining in stateliness what he loses in clearness, Hippocrates will ever remain the type of the perfect physician. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield There are no clouds of canvas, no beautiful models of marine architecture, none of the stateliness and majesty which have marked hundreds of great naval engagements. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman "Really, Mr. Gold," said Rachel, marching on with exceeding stateliness, and looking straight before her, "at our ages that piece of news would offer a very frivolous theme for conversation." Aunt Rachel "The recipe is three hundred years old," said Kitty, and swept him a curtsey, the like of which for stateliness you don't see nowadays: it wants practice and sea-room. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales It confers an unmistakable stateliness, a stamp of position, a social consequence upon its possessor. A Book of Burlesques There has been an extensive suite of rooms, not adapted to stateliness, but meant for the reception of guests; these are all of small dimensions, and were mostly built by Lady Hester. Byeways in Palestine Although he doubtless admired, and perhaps imitated, the condensation and dignity of Gibbon, yet it is certain that he carefully avoided the monotonous stateliness and the elaborate and ostentatious art of that most erudite historian. Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis The army moved and halted, moved and halted with a weird stateliness. The Long Roll Finally, there was Olga Tarentino, whose blonde stateliness might prove dangerous, so long as she could keep from a betrayal of her vixenish temper. The Genius Methought his royal person did foretell A kingly stateliness, from all pride clear; His look majestic seemèd to compel All men to love him, rather than to fear. Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) She got up from her chair, and with a stateliness which her brother-in-law thought somewhat misplaced, took her daughter's arm, and slowly left the room, her departure being the signal for a general breakup. A Master Of Craft Mr. Piper, who was already very tired of his imprisonment, looked up curiously as he heard the door pushed open, and discovered an elderly gentleman with an appearance of great stateliness staring at him. Light Freights The calm old mansion with its delicate outlines, its dreamy exquisite stateliness, spoke of rest and sweet serenity. The Daughters of Danaus The old gentleman was dressed with unusual care, and walked with even more of slow stateliness than ordinary. Agatha's Husband A Novel The park is very extensive and nobly planned, with a certain stateliness rather Italian than English. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 "As you please, ma'am," said Captain Barber, with a stateliness which deserved a better subject. A Master Of Craft And she was beautiful—beautiful, with a grace, a stateliness and dignity beyond compare. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond In an instant her feet were choosing their way and carrying her with grace and stateliness across the mire of the unformed garden. Clayhanger Bidding her farewell, the old man gave, with less stateliness than tenderness, his fatherly blessing upon her and her new home. Agatha's Husband A Novel He came from the ruins of ancient Egypt, and looked in his calm stateliness as though he might have gazed upon the Pharaohs themselves. Wild Nature Won By Kindness Captain Flower, learning through the medium of Tim that the coast was clear, came on deck at Limehouse, and took charge of his ship with a stateliness significant of an uneasy conscience. A Master Of Craft With all his stateliness, which he never laid aside, Don Luis de Guzman knew how to be very affable when he chose, and he chose to be so with us. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba "The first glimpse of Ely overwhelms us, not only by its stateliness and variety of its outline, but by its utter strangeness, its unlikeness to anything else." Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See I think my pride in her lent stateliness to my steps as I led her out in the dance. The Rose of Old St. Louis Their manners are easy, dignified, and lady-like; totally free from all affectation, and in nowise marked by that frigid stateliness and pedantic formality, which a censorious world proverbially attributes to a state of elderly maidenhood. The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" When, in short, by simply applying his usual stateliness of manner to a subject a little beneath it in dignity, he can produce the desired effect, he is eminently258 successful. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) There was a stateliness in his manner that grieved me, for when a man meets a rebuff with silence and dignity he is aging. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories This wonderful effusion put the audience in good humor: they laughed immoderately, clapped, and shouted "Bravo!" and Wignell still continued with his usual composure and stateliness. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings He strayed out into the hall again; he viewed its stateliness, its expurgated elegance. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Height, and a buoyant stateliness of bearing, lent a regal quality to her beauty. The Great Amulet There was a quaint and delightful stateliness about Mary which made Lady Anne say to herself once more that the child had gentle blood in her. Mary Gray Now she was large and heavy, with a mixture of unconscious stateliness and wistful motherliness in her gait and gestures. A Houseful of Girls "I have to thank you all, gentlemen," he said; and wrapping the remainder of the handkerchief round his bleeding hand, he resumed his walk with an overwhelming stateliness. The Napoleon of Notting Hill Mrs. Oswald assumed perhaps a little more than her usual stateliness when she heard her announced, but it vanished instantly before Mary's tearful eye, as she kissed the hand that was extended to her. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest He is of pure white, Lord, and he does not herd with any other animal through stateliness and pride, so royal is his bearing. The Mabinogion Vol. 2 In the superficial refinement which was so essential a part of Van Dyck, he had the capacity of conferring on his sitters a reflection of his own outward stateliness and grace. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art All that we know of Burke exhibits him as inspired by a resolute pride, a certain stateliness and imperious elevation of mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" She thought of Felicita in her unapproachable loveliness and stateliness; and of their home, so full to her of exquisite refinement and luxury. Cobwebs and Cables It was a handsome house inside, with wonderful oak staircases and Adams chimneypieces; and there was an air of great stateliness about it, and of very little luxury. The Farringdons "What's the matter?" asked her father, coming in—an old man in checkered shirt sleeves, yet with a certain rustic stateliness about him. Young Lucretia and Other Stories "We are living here at present," said the young lady, with less stateliness, "at No. 20 Bear Street." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag These North Italian cabinets were often covered with intarsia or marquetry, which by its subdued gaiety retrieved somewhat their heavy stateliness of form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The younger man began to laugh, with conciliatory good-nature, as he glanced appreciatively back at the sweetmeat stateliness of the Casino front. Phantom Wires A Novel The taste of this time was rather artificial in such matters, and inclined to stateliness. Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation He had an excellent English style, always impressive, often on fit occasions rising to great stateliness and beauty. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It was to Mrs. Mellicent only that he disclosed all that had passed in his interview with Morgan, who, making the same misapplication of Morgan's amorous tender, drew up her stiff figure into full stateliness. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel It has had to contend with severer enemies than old age, but shockingly as the effigy has suffered, it still preserves something of its original beauty and stateliness. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See That is never found even in the finest work of Perpendicular architects; but for stateliness and magnificence it has not a rival in England. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See As additional units of the building are completed, it adds to the stateliness of the entire structure, and permits one to realize how beautiful it is going to be. High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska They had great stateliness of behavior, and admitted of little familiarity. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Petrarch's sonnets have a more ethereal grace and a more perfect finish; Shakespeare's more passion; Milton's stand supreme in stateliness, Wordsworth's in depth and delicacy. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language His address and manner, though perhaps inclining a little towards stateliness and formality, in the main corresponded to his high rank, and gave grace to that reserve and gravity which were natural to him. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell High pride of family then prevailed; and it was by a dignity and stateliness of behavior, that the gentry and nobility distinguished themselves from the common people. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. What was the head waiter's name who presided with so much stateliness in the dining-room of the Tyringham? Lady Larkspur One person will choose his library companions for their stateliness and splendid raiment, another for their flavour of antiquity, or the fine company that they kept in old times. The Great Book-Collectors The stateliness and show were all reserved for Madison Square. Faith Gartney's Girlhood They had lost all the freedom of gesture, the proud, half-savage stateliness of those who remained nomadic and untrammelled by local law and custom. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 An inherent and passionate tendency toward classic stateliness increased in her more and more. Shadows of the Stage She seemed taller in white; as she took a few steps toward me, I was aware of a stateliness I had missed at the shore. Lady Larkspur But his grandchild saw him now, and walked up to him with a childish stateliness, stumbling once or twice on what seemed her long shroud. Cross Purposes and The Shadows Johnson's style was grand, and Gibbon's elegant: the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the latter was occasionally finical. Gibbon Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness, and better singers than we—though that is yet to be known—but they could not have better reason. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O The entrance, at the trial scene, was made with the stateliness natural to a queenly woman, and yet with a touch of pathos—the cold patience of despair. Shadows of the Stage A walk runs all round it; I followed its circuit, and soon had a glorious view of the Abbey, standing in solitary stateliness on its wooded hill on the opposite side. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Save in two quite uncalled-for humorous episodes, the language used maintains a monotonous level of stateliness or emotion. The Growth of English Drama Perhaps as difficult a quality to attain as any which the poetry of the future will be called upon to study is stateliness, what the French call "la vraie hauteur." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The stateliness and the don's rank were attributable no doubt to the more sober character of the English lad, for, in fact, the two men were born in the same year, 1672. Thackeray "Monsieur Dumaresq, why did you lock me in?" she asked him, with something of her old stateliness of demeanour, which had made men deem her proud. The Swindler and Other Stories To the south-west is the giant spire of Salisbury, which since the fall of Fonthill Tower now reigns in solitary stateliness over these vast regions of down and desert. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath An affected stateliness cannot support itself but for a moment; and Mr. Daubeny had been forced to sit down when the Speaker did not at once support his appeal. Phineas Redux The red-brick front is just an addition made for the sake of stateliness at some time of prosperity. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother There was none of the stateliness of the columns of British motor trucks and none of the rigidity of British marching. My Second Year of the War There was a depressing stateliness about Dale house, which was felt as soon as the stone gateway, with its frowning sphinxes, was passed. John Ward, Preacher With mingled stateliness and grace she accompanied us to the wonderful garden and bade us farewell. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Releasing her from this respectful confinement, he offered the invisible lady a gracious arm and walked up and down the room with a stateliness tempered to rhythm, a cakewalk of strange refinement. Gentle Julia Shortly after, the question fever having attacked me again, I accosted another monk, equal in stateliness of aspect to the Father Treasurer. Russian Rambles Even Lady Bereford strove to forget her feelings and rally her former spirits and dignified stateliness. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Montaigne, in his grave passages, reaches an eloquence intricate and highly wrought; but then his moods are Protean, and he is constantly alternating his stateliness with familiarity, anecdote, humour, coarseness. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The château itself was scarcely in keeping with this stateliness. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" The stateliness of her speech was more cutting than Agatha's explosive wrath. The Luckiest Girl in the School And the Duke, as the mountain, which is fixed in its stateliness, short of the power of some earthquake, which shall be grander and more terrible than any earthquake yet known. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Though unadorned by lofty monuments of imposing stateliness, costly public buildings, or princely residences, Fredericton lays claim to a higher and more primitive order of architecture than that of Hellenic ages. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Porter's almost stiff stateliness would match the gown she was to wear. Contrary Mary Lucina turned and looked in his face sadly, yet with a soft stateliness. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Hazel's spent and past excitement had left her rather pale and grave, so that she was doing the honours with an extra touch of stateliness. Wych Hazel “We have only been here three weeks,” said Miss Anna Carroll, who was a beautiful woman, and, but for a certain stateliness of carriage, might have seemed but little older than her elder niece. The Debtor A Novel She held herself with the same resolute stateliness, when she could hold herself at all. Jane Field A Novel A little later, the silken ladies having descended the stairway for the last time, Aunt Frances took her amber satin stateliness to the Sanctum. Contrary Mary Our tastes were harmonious, and we always understood each other; whereas Fatima was apt to be awed by his stateliness, puzzled by his jokes, and at times provoked by his eccentricities. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Now go and behold the sweet Queen of Heaven, whom you love so profoundly, leading the procession of the celestial throng in great gladness and stateliness, inclining to her lover with roses and lilies! The Evolution of Love In spite of a natural stateliness of look and manner, Clara had a kind way with her. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow “I think I am quite aware of all the exigencies of the case,” Daniel Tuxbury had replied, lapsing into stateliness, as he always did when his sister waxed too forcible in her advice. Jane Field A Novel I shall of course be much disappointed," she pitched her voice high and spoke with chill stateliness, "I shall be very much disappointed that neither you nor Mary will be with us for the winter. Contrary Mary All her womanly stateliness, which made her seem so superior to Rose, had vanished. Pembroke A Novel This castle is the principal house in this principal city, belonging to the crown of Sweden; it is a large castle, more for conveniency of a Court than for stateliness of structure. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. He had a lightning-like impression of her beautiful shoulders rising from her plain black gown, her delightfully easy walk, the slimness and comeliness and stateliness of her. Nobody's Man The heroic tone of the poem might be thought to have required verse of greater stateliness; the recurrence of the three femininePg 130 rhymes in the shorter verses often seems too pretty. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence There was immense formality and stateliness, the order of precedence was most minute, and pomp and display were wonderful. History of France “I don't want anybody else,” Charlotte had replied, with her shy stateliness. Pembroke A Novel In those days she had not lived near enough to it all to know the full meaning and value of it—the beauty and luxury, the stateliness and good taste. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" She had grown "divinely tall," and the exercise of undisputed authority had added a gracious stateliness of manner. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York This stanza, like the language, is pretty and would scarcely be a suitable vehicle for poetic expression requiring great depth or stateliness. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence I imagine that for stateliness and delicacy combined there are no plants that excel the Sobralia. About Orchids A Chat As she hurried on, he removed his hat and bowed with an attempt at stateliness which held a pathos of burlesque. Destiny The flash of familiar jewels in her hair, something, perhaps, in the quiet stateliness of her movements, betrayed her identity to him. A Lost Leader This mixture of the coarse, but picturesque features of oriental life, with the dilapidated stateliness of palaces in the style of the full-bottom-wigged Vanbrughs of Austria, has the oddest effect imaginable. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. There was a certain stateliness about the manner of the king which was remarkably becoming. The Land of Mystery One may say that this is the best hybrid yet raised, saving Calanthe Veitchii, if all merits be considered—stateliness of aspect, freedom in flowering, striking colour, ease of cultivation. About Orchids A Chat Then he left her, quitting the room with some stateliness in his step, as though conscious that at such a moment as this it behoved him to assume his rank. An Eye for an Eye He affirmed that external beauty, stateliness, splendour, gracious manners, were indispensable elements of civilization, and that these were the contributions which Aristocracy made to the welfare of the State. Matthew Arnold But even then, her boldness did not desert her, and she rose to her feet with a stateliness and a calmness that almost awed the king's anger to silence. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster There was no attempt to retain departed youth; no golden wigs or red and white paint disfigured her person, which had an immense natural dignity and stateliness. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Their meeting was celebrated with all the pomp and stateliness of the heyday of chivalry. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) The upper part is formal in the extreme, as it need be for the treatment of such a theme, but even here there is variety as well as stateliness in the attitudes and the spacing. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects The Queen was pale, but exhibited that stateliness of countenance for which she was memorable to the last; she sat with the Dauphiness pressed in her arms. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Suspense, the die yet covered, the greatness of the risk, gave, too, its glamour of height and stateliness. Foes But with all this stateliness and splendour Kriemhild, the beautiful, was unhappy. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine A certain stateliness and dignity kept people at a distance, and, together with an exacting discipline, won him the sobriquet of "Old Fuss and Feathers." American Men of Action It combines the solidity and stateliness of the standard hymns of the ages, with the life and sprightliness of the modern gospel song. The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship Lord and Lady Cowper too contribute to make the society at this place more pleasing than can be imagined; while English hospitality softens down the stateliness of Tuscan manners. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I He was a tall, lounging fellow, rather clumsy in his movements, but with a kind of stateliness about him; he looked, and was, old for his years. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College With the slightest soupçon of stateliness, dreading what was to follow, she managed to say, that "Whatever he liked to tell her should go no further." Bluebell A Novel Being now a perfect princess in stateliness and beauty, she took Jack by the arm--she called him Jack--and made him march away with her. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The rich bud of their love bloomed at once in full, fragrant stateliness. Idolatry A Romance But the sublimity and stateliness, the grand expression of a divine sympathy, that illuminated the mountain visage, and etherealised its ponderous granite substance into spirit, might here be sought in vain. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know "You at once feel the unique character of the Madonna; the stateliness of the composition, the exquisite harmony and strength of the color.—What is it, Betty?" Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Enter, a broad-shouldered gentleman and a haughty wisp of a woman, the latter a trifle embarrassed, despite her stateliness. A Man and a Woman They possessed nothing of her stateliness, but she in turn had none of their sweetness or assumed gentleness; none of that premeditated amiability which society women assume under the public gaze. The Northern Light Lines of trees lift their stateliness on either side, and carry trailing festoons of vines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 He was angry because she had come; he hated her for her stateliness; he found himself looking for defects in her and belittling her undeniable graces. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Their splendour is a classic splendour, and not what Milton contemptuously calls "a Hunnish and Norwegian stateliness." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Then back again, three times round the circle, and in and out among the curves, always with that unchanging stateliness of gait. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers As Wykeham's alterations were merely added to the original piers, the stateliness of the whole remains. Winchester Indeed 'twas a wonder to a man to behold how her stateliness had melted and she was like a yearning, clinging girl. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality I beg your pardon, Major Stuart," said Miss Carry, with a grand stateliness in her tone, "but will you allow me to ask if this is true? Macleod of Dare Perhaps Washington himself rather enjoyed the stateliness and a certain aloofness in his position; but to Martha Washington, used to the freedom of social mingling on the Virginia plantation, the conditions were undoubtedly irksome. Woman's Life in Colonial Days Composing itself to the same deliberate stateliness with which it had paced the hall, the phantom of Squire Woodcock firmly, advanced its cane, and marched straight forward towards the mysterious stranger. Israel Potter He was surprised by the stateliness of the chamber, and the curious beauty of its decorations. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories He was not of the build or stateliness of Lord Roxholm, and much younger, but was as much older than his years in sin as the other was in unusual acquirement. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The stateliness and solemnity of the Mass, the tragic possibilities of the Passion, appealed to them, and satisfied the tendency toward mysticism, which is so often a part of the artistic nature. Beethoven "Bet your sweet life none of this don't scare me!" he soliloquizes, touching the stateliness of the premises. David Lockwin—The People's Idol "I shall not forget that I am a lady, Connie," she said, and said it with such stateliness and such dignity that Connie felt no inclination to laugh. The Imaginary Marriage He pointed to some shivering ashes in the grate of the drawing-room, for Ooma occupied the library in the last solemn stateliness of his final appearance on earth. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate He walked with a stateliness that seemed to signify pain in his lower extremities more than it did dignity higher up. The Daughter of Anderson Crow The stateliness which characterizes the large symphonic forms is absent in chamber-music, but it has qualities of its own which we value as much. Beethoven "We are very glad to see you back," she said, with a simplicity that yet suggested stateliness. Winston of the Prairie It was the first time that I had seen George the Third, and I was struck at once with the stateliness of his figure and the kindliness of his countenance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Its guardian mountain was a miniature Matterhorn of indescribable grace and airy stateliness; its lesser attendants formed a group of peaks, grey and green and rose. The Princess Passes Miss Grant was undoubtedly characterized by a certain grace and now and then by an elusive hint of stateliness. Ranching for Sylvia They were amazed at the stateliness of the library, and they marvelled at the richness of the chandeliers and the curiously assorted pictures. Muslin Even his phraseology had been stripped of its stateliness. Unleavened Bread Roman policy might have lacked some of its stateliness and solidity, but assuredly the government of the provinces would have improved. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) She was a pretty creature, with a speckled coat and a comb the color of red coral: very small, but lively and vigorous, and exhibiting in all her movements both grace and stateliness. Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies For a minute anger, righteous anger, kept her silent; then she responded with stateliness: "I suppose I have a right to decide how my son shall be brought up?" Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Methinks we should lay by this form of stateliness; Loves Courtship is familiar, and for instance, See what a change it hath begot in me, I could talk humbly now, as Lovers use. The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) With hat pressed firmly over an ominously lowering brow, looking straight before him with cavernous, tired eyes which seemed to observe nothing whereon they rested, Webster walked through the hushed lines in grave stateliness. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 She passed him; then turned, and after a moment of silence spoke to him with a strange and sorrowful stateliness. Audrey The interior arrangements are worthy of the external stateliness of the warehouse. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) At the Restoration something disappears of the old stateliness. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) Julia herself had a peculiar modest stateliness and frank dignity, which suited her well. The Doctor's Dilemma He wheeled his horse and spurred on up along his own grounds, fit master for their stateliness. The Way of a Man Formality and stateliness of a certain sort we had, but of luxury we knew little. 54-40 or Fight The whole place was of noble proportions and magnificent size, but Patty's home-making talents brought cosiness to the rooms they themselves used and stateliness and beauty to the more formal apartments. Patty and Azalea Shelley did this with great stateliness and subtlety. The Poetry Of Robert Browning There was a tinge of stateliness about him, bordering upon formality, which had kept me a little in awe of him all the journey through. The Doctor's Dilemma "They lend to it an academic elegance, a scientific stateliness, a certain grand and austere majesty—" "Colonel, I asked you for your opinion of those articles." Queed Thus it happens that much more decorative pageantry symbolic of these things is permissible in this kind of portraiture than in that of plain Mr. Smith; a greater stateliness of design as befitting official occasions. The Practice and Science of Drawing Alice Deringham also rose with a little stateliness, and when he had gone out sank down contemplatively into the chair again. Alton of Somasco Dark-eyed, hawk-nosed, with black hair not yet flecked with snow, there was an awe and stateliness in him whether he spoke to gentle or to simple. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven It is then that the rooks forget their usual stateliness, and their shy and lofty habits. Bracebridge Hall The same idle and frigid reaction will almost certainly discredit the stateliness and care of Tennyson, as it has discredited the recklessness and inventiveness of Dickens. Varied Types A head taller than the little Mrs. Ann, she was in the bloom of maiden loveliness, rosy, joyous, a certain new stateliness in her movements. Westways She bowed, not carelessly as she had bowed to Darrell, but with a kind of exaggerated stateliness, not less girlish. The Marriage of William Ashe Mr. Soper combined a certain stateliness of carriage with a restless insignificance of feature. The Divine Fire And for this part of the work, the stateliness and dignity of the Latin corresponded to the proud claims which he made for his conception of the knowledge which was to be. Bacon He waited by the stone seat, for she must go secretly and in silence, and he might not, as in old times, lead her with stateliness through the ways of Ferne House. Sir Mortimer With them died the stateliness of colonial times. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam He greeted the new-comer with the absent stateliness he generally put on when his mind was in a state of confusion as to a person's identity. Lady Rose's Daughter Her natural stateliness still clung about her, but she did not cloak herself therewith. The Lamp in the Desert She was so utterly different from Donna Tullia, whom he had just left, that the Prince was almost awed by her stateliness, and felt more than ever like a boy in a bad scrape. Saracinesca Lady Winterbourne shook hands with a shy awkwardness which belied her height and stateliness. Marcella She loosed Bran, and the dog, when he had finished his elephantine 301gambades, followed her close at heel, with all stateliness, to the wide marsh on the brow of the hill. Leonora And the fact was the more noticeable because in her dress she had now wholly discarded the touch of stateliness--almost old-maidishness--which had once seemed appropriate to the position of Lady Henry's companion. Lady Rose's Daughter He was richly dressed, but wore a gouty shoe, which, however, did not lessen the stateliness of his gait. Twice Told Tales It is then that the rooks forget their usual stateliness and their shy and lofty habits. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Only the beautiful hands and the delicate stateliness of carriage remained—sole relics of a loveliness which had cost its owner few pangs to part with. Marcella She had a right to our hospitalities," continued the little Marquis, drawing himself up with a slight degree of stateliness, "for she was related to our family. Tales of a Traveller I mean he has not only the rough leadership that we often give to the man, but the special sort of social beauty and stateliness that we generally expect only of the woman. The New Jerusalem Her tone was curiously helpless; she was still stately, but it was a ghostly and pallid stateliness. The Testing of Diana Mallory That large stateliness of her movement, too, is Italian. Miss Bretherton Now, in the fashion of her stateliness, and in the hue and texture of her garments, there was none among the maidens of old Cornwall like Alice of the Lea. Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 |
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