Use dignified in a sentence
Sentences ending with dignified
- But this isn't the time to be dignified. [9]
- His name is Pentaur, and it certainly must be admitted that he is handsome and dignified. [10]
- Only his face had become still more manly, his bearing more dignified. [10]
- His face was calm and dignified. [11]
Short sentences using dignified
- Not dignified, eh, Whipple? [9]
Sentences containing dignified two or more times
- It was not dignified, but it would have been less dignified still performed by any other living man of forty-five with a bald head and a waist-band ten inches too large. [11]
More example sentences with the word dignified in them
- At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. [11]
- Now impetuously, now with dignified calmness, now with devout exaltation, hands were raised to take the oath, and whoever clasped hands did so with fervent warmth. [10]
- It is dignified with a winding approach, but is itself only a cheap and decaying house. [4]
- It was only when the indignant orator "thundered and lightened" and was carried away by the heat of passion that he forgot his dignified moderation, and then how grandly voice, eye, and action helped each other! [10]
- But my hour was to come; the handsomest and noblest man of them all, and grave and dignified too--was Assa, the old Mohar's father, and grandfather of Pentaur--no, I should say of Paaker, the pioneer; thou hast known him. [10]
- The long facade was imposing, dignified, with a touch of conventionality and solidity in keeping with my standing in the city. [9]
- The Greek prince was an old man, his beard and thick hair were grey, but his movements were youthful and light, though dignified and deliberate. [10]
- He was a very busy man, was my uncle, and had a kind of dignified run, which he used between Marlboro' Street and the Council Chamber in the Stadt House, or the Governor's mansion. [9]
- The multitude gave vent to their impatience by shouting, singing, and quarrelling; but the priests and magnates on the steps preserved a dignified and solemn silence. [10]
- His dignified gravity vanished in a moment; he laughed aloud, struck his forehead merrily, seized the hand of the astonished captain, and said: "Should you be glad, if Bartja could be saved? [10]
- Often I used to watch him with a certain envy as he stood in the doorway, his hands in his pockets, and greeted fellow-merchant and banker with his genuine and dignified directness. [9]
- We can afford to take a reasonable time, to be dignified about it. [9]
- If he ever thought of Helene, it was just of her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in society. [2]
- High-toned conversation on these topics occupied these dignified and faithful mammies, upon whom seemed to rest to a considerable extent the maintenance of the aristocratic social traditions. [4]
- I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
- He was now the well-modulated man of affairs, elegant in his simplicity of dress, with the dignified air of the intellectual, yet with the decision of a man who knew his mind. [11]
- The last of the three was of wood, and of no great size--a severely plain but dignified structure, looking like some council-hall of a past era. [11]
- The face of the old man was deeply lined now, but it might once have been handsome, and in the large blue eyes there still lay evidence of a quick intellect and a dignified self-respect. [10]
- This hardly deserves the name of a science, although Velpeau has dignified it with that title, but it furnishes an admirable practical way for the surgeon who has to operate on a particular region of the body to study that region. [3]
- The major-domo greeted the musicians with dignified condescension, Wolf with familiar friendship. [10]
- With admirable taste the matron had aimed at giving Melissa a simple, dignified aspect, unadorned and almost priestess-like in its severity. [10]
- Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotalers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical pretensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober. [5]
- His mother is the dearest lady I have ever known, so quiet, so dignified, and so well bred. [9]
- We have, at St. John's, always been orthodox and dignified, and I take it to be the sense of this vestry that we remain so. [9]
- He had aged somewhat, his hair was a little gray, but otherwise he was the firm, dignified personage I had admired on this same gallery five years before. [9]
- I travelled homeward somewhat lifted out of myself by this visit to him; with some feeling of spaciousness derived from Washington itself, with its dignified Presidential Mansion among the trees, its granite shaft drawing the eye upward, with its winged Capitol serene upon the hill. [9]
- His manner was so free, and yet so dignified, as to charm me completely. [9]
- His figure was slight and yet vigorous, supple and yet dignified, and his finely-formed features and frank bright eyes were full at once of self-respect and of benevolence. [10]
- In his sister's sitting-room the architect found Eumenes, the bishop, a dignified old man with clear, kind eyes. [10]
- He had long since planned the execution of a statue of Moses, and when his father had left him, he could not get the tall and dignified figure of the old man out of his mind. [10]
- A large merchant ship had approached them, and three men came on board the Hydra--old Satabus, his son Labaja, and a gray-haired, bearded seafarer of tall stature and dignified bearing, Schalit, Ledscha's father. [10]
- Still, no doubt, she would find him wrapped in dignified readiness for the worst, sorrowing serenely for the doomed world, and so her melancholy message would come to a prepared and resigned heart. [10]
- With dignified composure, she asked to have the sons whom she had given to Antony--not Caasarion--acknowledged as Kings of Egypt. [10]
- I had the sense to see myself in perspective; to recognize that not for me, a dignified and substantial lawyer of affairs, were the rhetorical flights of the Hon. [9]
- Melissa's eyes were riveted as if spell-bound on this figure, which was neither handsome nor dignified, and which nevertheless had a strange attraction for her, she knew not why. [10]
- There was something rigid in her features, and yet they had never--not even when she blushingly accepted his violets--looked to him so faultlessly beautiful, so regular and so nobly cut, so dignified, nay impressive. [10]
- He may be recognized even at a distance by his portly figure, his silk hat, and his dignified mien. [9]
- Our turbulent, rebellious rabble raised their hands like pleading beggars, and grave, dignified men followed their example. [10]
- He seemed a quiet, kindly, easy-mannered, dignified, self-possessed old gentleman of fifty-five or sixty, and had a gentle craft in his eye that probably belonged there. [5]
- But his aunt's proud and dignified manner confounded him. [10]
- Yet her vehement outburst of wrath had startled him also, and a doubt arose in his mind as to what matrimonial life might be with a companion who, in spite of her youth, ventured to oppose elderly, dignified men so irritably and sharply. [10]
- When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance. [2]
- Across the street, on a lot that had once held a similar dignified residence, was the yellow brick building of the "Albert Hotel," and next door, on the east, a remodelled house of "apartments" with speaking tubes in the doorway. [9]
- For the convenience of travellers passing that way, Hans kept a tavern,--if it could have been dignified by such a name. [9]
- By the side of this dignified, but impetuous and warm-hearted man they appeared like the old, rigid idols of his ancestors in comparison with the freely-wrought works of Greek art. [10]
- She said nothing of the summons which she had received that morning, or of her answer; and her account of the matter of the dismissal and reinstatement was brief and dignified, and contained no mention of Mr. Worthington's name or agency. [9]
- Along the border of the Common were interspersed among the ancient dormitories and halls the new and dignified buildings of plum-coloured brick that still preserved the soul of Silliston. [9]
- One the personification of imperial and dignified Rome; the other with his Hermes-like figure. [10]
- From an aspect of dignified but undisguised economy which showed itself in her dress as well as in her limited quarters, I suspected a story of shipwrecked fortune, and determined to question our Landlady. [6]
- Even grey-bearded men of dignified bearing, and wives and mothers whose looks augured gentle hearts thrust back the few hapless foes who had succeeded in reaching the land on the ruins of the war-chariots or baggage-wagons. [10]
- An elderly lady of dignified bearing looked out and met her eyes with a pleasant glance. [10]
- An elderly man of dignified aspect was standing close by, who, as Dada had already discovered, was the head of the ship-yard, and the warrior hastened towards him. [10]
- Everything was done not only "decently and in order," but, perhaps one might say, with a certain air of magnifying their office on the part of the dignified clergymen, often two or three in number. [6]
- Mr. Worthington did not deem it dignified or necessary to state that the railroad to which he referred was the Truro Railroad; and that he, as the largest stockholder, might indirectly share that prosperity with Brampton. [9]
- It seemed almost no time at all before she was at the station again, clinging to Aunt Mary: but now the separation was not so hard, and she had Edith and Mary for company, and George, a dignified and responsible sophomore at Harvard. [9]
- However, she knew no more than that his name was Serapion, and she briefly described his dignified presence. [10]
- Something else was needed to make their future as dignified and beautiful as he had beheld it before his mind's eye on his journey to the mines. [10]
- How many of my mother's traits the beautiful, dignified Rhodopis possessed! [10]
- Our future generations must still tower proudly above the common herd in every respect; I want no plaything for a wife, but a woman, such as you yourself were in youth--tall, dignified and handsome. [10]
- It would be more dignified to quietly leave the Springs the next day. [4]
- Funerals, if they might be dignified by this name, were not infrequent occurrences in Dalton Street, and why this one should have been looked upon as of sufficient importance to collect a group of onlookers at the gate it is difficult to say. [9]
- But it was manifest to Mr. Bartlett that, had not the bull shewn dignified forbearance, he could easily have killed her by a single lateral thrust with his immense horns. [1]
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, at the age of forty-seven, as I recall him, was a tall, rather spare, dignified personage, of serene and grave aspect, but with a pleasant smile and kindly voice for the student with whom he came into personal relations. [6]
- How dignified he looks, but he will not like going. [10]
- The old man looked dignified and honest; but Father Karnis was a well-meaning man, no doubt, and one of those who are wont to keep on the winning side. [10]
- A horse cannot look dignified in this position. [5]
- She replaced it later with the more dignified third person. [5]
- It was at last become a compact, grammatical, dignified, and workman-like body of literature. [5]
- It is a large, dignified room, built early in the nineteenth century, with white doors and gloss woodwork. [9]
- He reflected that it might well seem strange yea, and intolerable--to many that this comedian of the country store, this crude lawyer and politician, should inherit the seat dignified by Washington and the Adamses. [9]
- I never thought it dignified or even proper for a President of the United States to call himself, or to be called by others, "Frank" Pierce. [6]
- I have dignified it by calling it politics. [9]
- And now the Indian spoke, with his deep voice and dignified manner: "Brothers, it is as I have said, the trail is lonely and the woods are deep and dark. [11]
- Gentle, dignified, kindly in his address as if I had been his schoolmate, he left a very charming impression. [6]
- But here, as I entered the hall, all was quiet: a dignified, deep-carpeted stairway swept upward before me, and on either side were wide, empty rooms; and in the subdued light of one of them I saw a dark figure moving silently about--the butler. [9]
- Zminis, as was his custom when he wished to assume an appearance of respect which he did not feel, was alternately abject and pressingly confidential; while Aristides calmly accepted his hypocritical servility, and answered it with dignified condescension. [10]
- The expression of his broad, dignified face suited the bright May morning; nay, she imagined that his step was lighter and less sedate than usual. [10]
- Let us meet her claims with dignified resolution, then I think we shall not have the worst evils to fear. [10]
- A few mourners had stolen into the house and up the threadbare stairs into the miserable little back room, somehow dignified as it had never been before, and laid their gifts upon the coffin. [9]
- The lightning-flash which had fallen on the brassplated cupola, and then discharged its force along a flagstaff, had alarmed even the sages and philosophers; and the Symposium had come to an abrupt end but little more dignified than the orgy in the temple-halls. [10]
- Lali might have had a more presentable and dignified attendant, but not one more worthy. [11]
- He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. [5]
- He was about fifty years old, dignified, well preserved and well dressed. [5]
- At times the fair image of his home rose before his memory--but it vanished as soon as he recalled the burgomaster's dignified figure, his own miserable weakness and the repulse he had experienced. [10]
- Mr. Gridley in evening costume made an eminently dignified and respectable appearance. [6]
- It is not dignified, one might say it is craven, but it is genuine. [11]
- The unlooked-for and dignified reserve of her injured husband, together with his ghastly paleness disturbed her, and her inquietude grew to painful anxiety as he maintained silence. [10]
- The Honourable Adam's dignified answer was that he had always been a good Republican, and would die one. [9]
- There was something dignified and brave about a quarrel, while a growing coolness which must end in what the world called "jilting" was humiliating. [11]
- Among a drunken crowd, which was rushing wildly along the streets, and which Alexander had joined, himself one of the wildest, this man had marched, sober and dignified as he was at this moment, in the same flowing raiment. [10]
- The morose, bigoted court, hampered by rigid formality, had been invaded by worldly pleasure, which disported itself unabashed by the presence of the distinguished prelates in violet and scarlet robes, who paced with dignified bearing through the apartments, greeting the more prominent ladies and grandees. [10]
- The English is clean, compact, dignified, almost perfect. [5]
- Przebyszewski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in attention. [2]
- His mouth perhaps betrayed a little self-consciousness, but he tried to show his features in an aspect of dignified self-possession. [6]
- I walked on beside him, improperly offended by his dignified airs, his coolness of body and manner, and what I considered the insolent plumpness and form of his chest and limbs. [11]
- Toward him Boris behaved with a particularly dignified and sad deference. [2]
- Wolf bowed reverently before the dignified figure of the distinguished Dominican, and the latter, as he recognised him, paused to request curtly that he would give him a few minutes the following day. [10]
- And his manners befitted his years; dignified and modest, albeit cheerful and full of a young man's open-minded ardor for everything that was above the vulgar. [10]
- How can it be made grand and dignified enough to be equal to the office assigned it? [6]
- And he went back to his books and to his waiting for an opening large enough for his dignified entrance into the literary world. [5]
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