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Sentences starting with stately

Stately and beautiful, but with gloomy eyes and hand upraised in warning, her image rose before his mental vision as he sat gazing over the smouldering fire out into the darkness. [10]
Stately ball-rooms, where beauty once reigned, are cold and empty and mildewed, and halls, where laughter rang, are silent. [9]
Stately and cold and polite, she had fairly met his ceaseless foppery and preciseness of manner. [11]

Sentences ending with stately

The Grand Duke's palace, on the contrary, appeared aristocratic and stately. [10]

Short sentences using stately

It was a stately band. [10]

More example sentences with the word stately in them

The prelate's white woollen morning-robe clung closely around his stately figure. [10]
The bow-windowed room, with the view of the belfry and the stately guildhall, was pleasantly fitted up for his mother, and the city gardeners received orders to send the finest house-plants to his residence. [10]
Finally he said, with a stately bow: "It is finished. [5]
He bears himself with a calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence. [5]
It was Patty who kept her head, and made us a stately curtsey. [9]
The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
Presently "Elfonzo again wends his way to the stately walls and new-built village. [5]
I recall her well, chiefly as a sad and beautiful woman, stately save when she kissed me with passion and said that I bore my father's look. [9]
The quaint cottages we glimpsed, the sight of distant, stately mansions on green slopes caused Maude to cry out with rapture:--"Oh, Hugh, there's a manor-house! [9]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
The old knight was smiling; how stately was his mien, and how well the silver breast plate beseemed him, with the golden lion rampant of the Im Hoffs! [10]
Just at night,--it was nearly seven o'clock,--we entered one of the most stately forests I have ever seen, and rode for some distance in an alley of rhododendrons that arched overhead and made a bower. [4]
When her schooling was finished she let her school friends drop, and came back to Bonaventure, rather stately, given to reading, and little inclined to bother her head about anybody. [11]
His companion's appearance was as insignificant as his own was stately and commanding. [10]
For instance, it was a proud thing to be of the crew of such stately craft as the 'Aleck Scott' or the 'Grand Turk. [5]
Then come ecclesiastics, walking with stately step, and chanting in loud and pleasant unison. [4]
Down this space walked the Archbishop and his canons, and after them followed those five stately figures in splendid harness, each bearing his feudal banner--and riding! [5]
Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes. [5]
His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
We stirred him up occasionally, but he only unclosed an eye and slowly closed it again, abating no jot of his stately piety of demeanor or his tremendous seriousness. [5]
Her sails hung unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel; still she moved on, stately, in serene triumph, as if with her own life. [6]
As the doctor turned an angle in the road, all at once the stately old house rose before him. [6]
Back of the town rise highlands that are clothed in woodland loveliness, and over the way is that noble mountain, Wellington, a stately bulk, a most majestic pile. [5]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
Presently he turned towards the East and stretched a robe upon the ground, and with stately beauty of gesture he spread out his hands, standing for a moment in the attitude of aspiration. [11]
In the foreground, toward the left, rose the wooded height crowned by the stately ruins of the Blankenburg. [10]
In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
Curiosity drew both to the spot, and as Miriam's stately bearing made the throng move respectfully aside, they soon saw the mournful contents of a large travelling-chariot, which had lost its wheels. [10]
I drew aside to let a stately train of beauty and of fashion descend, and saw it sweep through the hall, and enter the drawing-rooms, until it was lost in a sea of shifting color. [4]
Lastly, he stole to Ledscha's home, and, knowing that her father was absent, had ventured as far as the open courtyard in the centre of the stately dwelling. [10]
It is difficult to know whether most to admire their stately dimensions or the beauty of their forms. [10]
She promised faithfully to come down into the entry, when the horses approached, to receive the poor lamb, surrounded by lynxes, wild-cats, foxes, and wolves, and lead it into the safe fold--if one can call this stately house by such a name. [10]
Gentlemen were beginning to build their houses of brick and stone, in stately and magnificent fashion. [4]
The thought darted through his mind that his friend the architect desired to erect the luckless statues of the royal lovers in front of this stately building. [10]
As we wandered thoughtfully down the marble-paved length of this stately temple, the scene about us was strangely impressive. [5]
He told her this with frank affection, and represented to her how much better suited she was to Brussels than to her stately but dull and quiet Ratisbon. [10]
Mr. Holmes inspected this cabin, then he took me by the buttonhole, and says he: "'Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings, Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! [5]
He still looked thin and somewhat awkward, but the tall youth promised to become a stately man. [10]
Even in Ratisbon there was not a handsomer, wider street than this Altstadt, with its stately gable-roofed houses, and certainly not in Munich, where her uncle had once taken her, and the Bavarian dukes now resided. [10]
The tall man, the very model of a stately burgher, who paid careful heed to his outward appearance, now looked careless of his person. [10]
The door of the tablinum flew open, and through it streamed the Parthian ambassadors, seven stately personages, wearing the gorgeous costume of their country, and followed by an interpreter and several scribes. [10]
In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces. [5]
Behind him appeared the quaternary number of prophets, whose head, the chief priest, moved with stately dignity beneath a canopy. [10]
For I'm told the money-bags and the stately pile are for you. [11]
The mansion of the late and left Floyd is now a seminary, and not far from it is the Stonewall Jackson Institute, in the midst of a grove of splendid oaks, whose stately boles and wide-spreading branches give a dignity to educational life. [4]
At half-past nine the great doors opened, and the procession began, in slow and stately moving fashion, to enter. [4]
True, he was the father of her Wolff, but the son resembled this cold-hearted man only in his unusual stature, and a chill ran through her veins as she felt the stately old merchant's blue eyes, still keen and glittering, rest upon her. [10]
The friends of the deceased got up a stately funeral. [5]
The palace on the Dam (square) is a square, stately edifice, and the only building that the stranger will care to see. [4]
Wilhelm had seen the British soldiers, their commander, Colonel Chester, and Captain Gensfort, and praised their superb equipments and stately bearing. [10]
The gorge of the Bridge is a botanical storehouse, greater variety of evergreens cannot be found together anywhere else in the country, and the hills are still clad with stately forests. [4]
There they sat, the brave sons of a little nation, the stately leaders of a small community, poor in numbers and means of defence, which had undertaken to bid defiance to the mightiest power and finest armies of its age. [10]
Agne felt, knew, that this stately man was the Bishop whom she sought, but she did not point him out to her little brother, for his aspect was that of some proud sovereign rather than of "the good, kind man" of whom she had dreamed. [10]
Thus you see that our Cybele sits with her head crowned with very stately towers and her feet in a tub of very dirty water. [6]
I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
The country about teas the perfection of cultivated landscape, dotted with cottages, and stately mansions of Revolutionary date, and sweet as an English country-side, whether seen in the soft bloom of May or in the mellow ripeness of late October. [5]
He chose the tallest and most stately of the slender dames of Venice to lead in the dance, or through the throng of masks and citizens intoxicated with the mirth of the carnival. [10]
Was this Rob Styles?--This mustached and stately figure?-A slim enough cub, in my time. [5]
After Prince George Street with its gilt and marbles and stately hedged gardens, the low-beamed, vine-covered house in the Duke of Gloucester Street was a home and a rest. [9]
Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars that divide the beautiful landscape like the squares of a checker-board are set with line and plummet, and their uniform height determined with a spirit level. [5]
There was a stove in the corner--one of those tall, square, stately white porcelain things that looks like a monument and keeps you thinking of death when you ought to be enjoying your travels. [5]
Behind the court-yard stood the stately, gable-roofed building containing the guest-rooms, and between it and the church lay the school-garden, a meadow planted with fruit trees, separated from the highway by a wall. [10]
Yet there he stood before the eyes of her soul in all his stately height, surrounded by radiance, and with a solemn gesture he laid his hand on the stones he had piled up. [10]
Calm, solemn, and stately, they sat like towers upon their powerful chargers. [4]
It was a stately truth, a lofty truth --a Tower; and I think it was a mistake to go on and distract attention from its sublimity by building another Tower alongside of it fourteen times as high. [5]
How beautiful and stately she was! [10]
It was a stately room, surrounded by marble columns, which bore witness to the owner's wealth, for the floor was beautifully adorned with bright-hued pictures, mosaic work executed in colored stones by an artist from Syracuse. [10]
He was a stately man, he was ideally costumed, and fairly festooned with ropes of gems; some of the ropes were of pearls, some were of uncut great emeralds--emeralds renowned in Bombay for their quality and value. [5]
But a grey-haired stately man of portly figure, whose fur-trimmed cloak hung to his ankles--Sir Arnold Maier of Silenen, led them to a part of the hall very distant from where she was standing. [10]
He found a stately dignitary occupying a very official chair behind a long green morocco-covered table, in a room with sumptuously carpeted and furnished, and well garnished with pictures. [5]
The walls of stately date-palms that fenced the gardens and bordered the way, threw their shadows down and made the air cool and bracing. [5]
But was the stately city before him really his home? [10]
It is a stately city architecturally as well as in magnitude. [5]
It was a stately chamber, and to-day looked more spacious than when, as of yore, it was filled with obsequious throngs. [10]
The king stood, stately as a statue, gazing toward them--had forgotten himself again, of course--and before I could get a word of warning out, it was time for him to skip, and well that he did it, too. [5]
There is something stately about that name, and an impressiveness which sinks deep; the hush of death is in it. [5]
And so they started, Cynthia flitting hither and thither along the roadside, picking the stately purple iris flowers in the marshy places, while Wetherell pondered. [9]
With a rattling song the starboard watch bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately stride, and soon was bowling along at about two knots an hour. [5]
I had a similar twinge of reminiscence at meeting with the name of Gorges, which is perpetuated by a stately monument at the end of the north aisle of the cathedral. [6]
As for Nancy, she seemed to the distant eye to be walking through life in a stately and triumphant manner. [9]
Beautiful and stately she is beyond all praise. [6]
How soft the shadows lie upon the stately mountains that border the dream-haunted Mauoa Valley! [5]
Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
Bright pinks, red roses, and stately lilies in the centre. [10]
A great orchestra rose in the midst of a stately grove lined on all four sides with supper-boxes of brave colours, which ran in straight tiers or swept around in circles. [9]
London had been reeking in a green-yellow fog, but here the mist was white, and through it I caught glimpses of the silhouettes of stately trees in a park, and presently saw the great house with its clock-tower looming up before me. [9]
In the beginning Quincy had the aspect and ways of a model New England town: and these she has yet: broad, clean streets, trim, neat dwellings and lawns, fine mansions, stately blocks of commercial buildings. [5]
He was very proud of his old Virginian ancestry, and in his hospitalities and his rather formal and stately manners, he kept up its traditions. [5]
What was the probable value of this stately structure, this aristocratic imperial abode? [10]
The well-armed galleys presented a stately appearance. [10]
Shakspeare is always present when one reads his book; Macaulay is present when we follow the march of his stately sentences; but the Old Testament writers are hidden from view. [5]
Once she had preferred the handsome, stately dancer to all other men. [10]
Two stately stone porches capped by elaborate iron railings adorn it in front and on the side. [9]
Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this. [5]
This hospitality stands out in my experiences in a stately isolation. [5]
Master Gridley took out a great volume from the lower shelf,--a folio in massive oaken covers with clasps Like prison hinges, bearing the stately colophon, white on a ground of vermilion, of Nicholas Jenson and his associates. [6]
It was all orderly, circumspect, weird, and even stately though the place was small. [11]
Then the door opened and the Sheriff stepped inside, accompanied by a white-haired, stately old man. [11]
The windows of one room looked out upon the cloisters and the Virgin's chapel, the only part of the once stately building spared by the French in 1692. [10]

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