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    stately


    1. Gilla laughs as Joris, already mounted on Black Hofnarr, pointedly ignores our comments and makes his stately way towards the gates


    2. stately in a small, urban way, firm and secure


    3. stately bow before the Nord and with a final smile, he left the tavern


    4. The weight of this responsibility hung heavy around Mr Snickerty's shoulders tonight, as he climbed down from his cabriolet with the stately ponderousness expected of a man of his circumference


    5. It's high windows and spear topped railings gave it a stately air among the bustle and whine of trucks and fork-lifts


    6. My jaw dropped at the elegance of the oaken panelling, the stately


    7. Dorro noticed Longleaf wipe away a tear or two, though he knew not whether for his Captain onboard or for the stately vessel herself


    8. Then a stately figure came strolling down the ramp


    9. see a tall and stately Christmas tree already lighted


    10. children in stately Whitehall to the humblest pot-boy and scullery-girl

    11. But ere the young Prince could reply, the stately and solemn-faced


    12. ‖ There resides in each of us, a spiritual prism that seems to radiate a stately radiance like sunshine emanating its essence through a pane of glass


    13. City Planning, for example, was neither pretentious nor overpowering in its designs but simplistically proportionate in a stately manner


    14. ” Satisfied, he squared himself to deliver a stately address


    15. The muddy path ended at a large clearing and the Clouds’ stately house came into view, its round turrets and white stone walls were smudged and grey after the heavy rain


    16. Shy, stately ibis laid claim to the farthest reaches of the back garden, not even bothering to fly away when we approached


    17. The area closer to the house was densely planted with growing beings rescued from destruction in the previous garden: lithe birch trees graceful as dancers, clumps of fairy-like nandina, stately arum lilies, agapanthus mounding greenly, fine-leafed groundcovers spilling over every surface


    18. " She was so sweet that even her high-bred, stately air had never gained for her the reputation of being "stuck-up," which it would inevitably have done in the case of anyone else in Glen St


    19. The new black velvet dress, with its train and V-neck, which she had made purposely for the party, became her stately, massive figure


    20. whom you did wash yourself, paintedst your eyes, and deckedst yourself with ornaments, 41 And sat on a stately bed, and a table

    21. School was the stately dark brick building at


    22. The stately home


    23. 3 And there my eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the Earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from where they proceed in that place and from where they saturate the dusty Earth; And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and the cloud of it hovers over the Earth from the beginning of the world; And I saw the pathways of the sun and moon, where they proceed and where they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they 6 are bound together; And first the sun goes out and traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name forever and ever; And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night-the one holding a position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits; And they give thanks and praise and rest not; For to them is their thanksgiving rest; For the sun changes often for a blessing or a curse; And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous; And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord, who made a separation between the light and the darkness; And divided the spirits of men, and strengthened the spirits of the righteous, in the name of His righteousness; for no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all, and He judges them all before Himself


    24. Finding a stately spruce, Selma and


    25. There was something stately and calm about the bizarrely-turreted bergs


    26. 3 And there my eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder and the secrets of the winds how they are divided to blow over the Earth and the secrets of the clouds and dew and there I saw from where they proceed in that place and from where they saturate the dusty Earth; And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided the chamber of the hail and winds the chamber of the mist and of the clouds and the cloud of it hovers over the Earth from the beginning of the world; And I saw the pathways of the sun and moon where they proceed and where they come again and their glorious return and how one is superior to the other and their stately orbit and how they do not leave their orbit and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it and they keep faith with each other in accordance with the oath by which they 6 are bound together; And first the sun goes out and traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits and mighty is His name forever and ever; And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night-the one holding a position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits; And they give thanks and praise and rest not; For to them is their thanksgiving rest; For the sun changes often for a blessing or a curse; And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous; And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord who made a separation between the light and the darkness; And divided the spirits of men and strengthened the spirits of the righteous in the name of His righteousness; for no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Himself


    27. Next, the assembled leaders of the elven nations, with their spouses or escorts, moved with stately pace into the aisle from either side at the base of the podium, then up to the fourth highest tier, until they stood in couples in a circle on it


    28. They appeared on the front lawn of a property that was just large enough to be considered a walled estate, in front of a stately two story home that was just big enough to be called a mansion


    29. The whinnies of nervous horses mixed with the growls of anxious riders accompanied the progress toward the interlopers who came slowly down the hill some distance away in a stately, spears-up, parade position formation


    30. In the far distance, a double row of stately palms marked the canal where the “adventure” had begun

    31. Going forth with the stately stride of authority, he appeared to make this movement on an


    32. distance, a double row of stately palms marked the canal where the “adventure” had begun


    33. His father said to his servants Bring out a stately robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand and put on him shoes on his feet and bring and kill a fatted ox that we may eat and make merry for this my son was dead and is alive; and was lost and is found; And they began to be merry


    34. Yes, this stately animal, with his rack of antlers, was the most impressive thing I’d seen in the woods


    35. the Supreme Court and nearly drowned the crotchety old men in their stately judicial


    36. The village elders confiscated all the trees bordering a road leading to a stately farm, and they assigned each household one tree which they had to cut and transport home themselves


    37. Joseph was reunited with his brothers and pharaoh met the stately patriarch


    38. It was large, elegant, and stately


    39. Azucena had the gift of making appeared out of nothing the most beautiful garments that the textile industry could ever imagine; not even Versace in his best times could have designed so elegant and pompous, simple and stately, coloring or monochrome, conservative or showy, opaque or brilliant, long or short garments which such delicacy and pledge! In other words there were no limits that the creative and textile magic of Azucena could not cover, in terms of textures and designs


    40. André and I hit it off rather well and before his return to Paris at the end of term to marry his sweetheart, we made several sorties together into the countryside in his deux chevaux, visiting stately homes and gardens

    41. ” He grinned from his widest gills and gave the children a stately bow of his pointy head


    42. with them, if I say that an advanced ego reminds me of a dignified, stately


    43. supported by the tall, stately trees which encircled the glade


    44. “This way” she said leading him into one of which could only be called stately rooms


    45. At the next movement of this stately ritual, the cross becomes a triangle, the Lord


    46. With cool assurance he made his offer to the stately, plumed, suspicious grandees of the barbarically magnificent court


    47. There was but one grim splotch on the landscape—a charred expanse of ashes and blackened stone, where, Conan knew, had once stood the stately villa of one of his staunchest supporters


    48. 2 When they brought Jesus before Herod, the tetrarch was startled by his stately appearance and the calm composure of his countenance


    49. with stately red-gold crowns


    50. The few bay trees interspersed among the smaller pond cypress served to cover the yard with gloomy darkness, none able to match the stately height or signature shadow of the regal river cypress












































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    Synonyms for "stately"

    courtly formal stately baronial imposing noble statuesque eminent venerable princely elegant superb glorious august

    "stately" definitions

    impressive in appearance


    of size and dignity suggestive of a statue


    refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court