How To Use Stately In A Sentence

The procession moved through the mountain village at a stately pace.
A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad. Worldly Ways and Byways
Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
asked the Countess, as a stately chaconne swirled up from ground level. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY

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King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices.
His tattered clothing indicated a traveler and a worker, but his stately manner leaned away from both of those.
The music was slow and stately, and in the back of the church, the bride appeared.
They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
Under the pleasurable sense of freedom, thanks to the relaxation of the bit, with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses. On Horsemanship
The traditional Romanian cimbalom (dulcimer or zither) is the sole accompaniment on the dramatic and stately ‘Cine iubeste si lasa.’
He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
The floor was covered with a plush carpet, and the walls were paneled with a synthetic wood molding, giving the room a stately air.
I may so plant myself upon Him, as that in Him I shall be strong, and then my life will not only grow like a tree and have its leaf green and broad, and its fruit the natural outcome of its vitality, but it will rise like some stately building, course by course, pillar by pillar, until at last the shining topstone is set there. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
They are released now by officials anxious to dispel the myth that bishops, some of whom still occupy grand palaces and stately castles, enjoy a life of luxury.
The building rose before him, tall and stately.
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
Oh, hullo!" said Monty over his shoulder, as our names were called out by the stately consular kavass. The Eye of Zeitoon
All the familiar elements - the deliberate, stately percussion; the elongated, cyclical riffs; the snarled lyrical tautologies and abstruse involutions - are all intact.
Chickens scratched in the company of a stately, gruff-voiced, very respectable pig, rooting under a walnut tree.
We went through the revolving door and found ourselves in a stately pleasure dome.
Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
The French courante was more elegant and stately than its Italian counterpart.
The shores were ringed with tall, stately Canadian blue spruce trees. THE VIKING SYMBOL MYSTERY
Shaking her head to disclaim any expertise, Trish allowed herself to be led through a series of stately rooms. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
It was a stately allemande, and luckily he knew all the steps.
They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day.
The viewer has his eye drawn through the openings of the screens to the end wall on the far side, with several stately blue robed woman gazing through.
It is expansive, easy to look out over and often adorned with one or two stately great blue herons.
it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor
It has a processional and stately character, having originated in courtly 16th-century ceremonies.
_Henry_ Earle of Surrey and Sir _Thomas Wyat_, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their The Arte of English Poesie
Not only are they among the largest and most stately trees on earth, but they thrive in settings of surpassing scenic beauty.
At the cathedral, four women in the rural costume as worn by Wishford women in 1825, holding bundles of hazel and oak sticks above their heads, danced a stately measure to the music of a squeeze-box on the lawn of the close. Wildwood
Zeffira's music is stately and churchlike. Times, Sunday Times
The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.
Balancing a flimsy umbrella on her shoulder, she began to walk as stately and imperially as ever, into a nearby inn and bar.
We should have _known_ the characters as they were known to the patrician and the populace of two thousand years ago; we should have seen them as they threw out all their stately and muscular strength; we should have been able to recover them from the tomb, make them move before us "in their armour, as they lived," and gather from their lips the language of times and things, now past away from man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
All in all, this is a bar that combines refined tastes with a stately elegance - be on your best behaviour then.
The stately home on the Richmond riverside is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Laurderdale, who lived there during the 1670s.
Usually lunch is back on board as the ship makes her stately progress to the next port.
Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
Upstairs in stately Norris Hall, sits a room full of my current office setup. 40 plus Mac Pro towers adorned with 22 inch Cintiqs. PvPonline » Archive » More thoughts on SCAD
This starts with Yat-kha mimicking the horns and cymbals of the monks, then slowly builds through a stately procession to a whirligig masked stomp.
There are dozens of stately homes dating from the beginning of the twentieth century; most of which are in impeccable condition. Henequen and its role in the Yucatan's shifting fortunes
She comments that lightning "attacks the 'pointed spire '[{lines} 64] of the church … throws aristocratic' stately towers '[{lines} 66] to the ground … [and] rends' in twain the iron-knit stone '[{lines} 65] of the church" (134). '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)
Of the cars that have been associated with the British Royal family, the most memorable have been the large and stately chauffeur-driven limousines and landaulets.
It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer.
The former asylum opened in 1816 is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order.
In France, the dance became slower and more stately, as did the sarabande on its removal to France from Spain.
The canal itself was exactly what we had expected, a strip of water flanked on each side by sand dunes, and a stately procession of ships gliding quietly along.
At the foot of Hance Rapid, the river leaves Marble Canyon; its regular and stately sandstones, shales, limestones, and quartzites tower higher and higher above, while the river quickly incises itself a thousand feet into the black and pegmatite-veined Precambrian schists of the Inner Gorge. President Garfield's "spine, removed during autopsy, was passed around to jurors during the trial of his assassin."
Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three.
Shaking her head to disclaim any expertise, Trish allowed herself to be led through a series of stately rooms. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Instead of the former vast repertory, the stately pavone, the graceful and dignified saraband, the wild Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Sam's wife was a slim, stately woman who looked ten years younger than her age of close to sixty. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
In Act I he stages first an allegorical masque, the chief theme of which is prudent distinction between tangible and intangible wealth or values, then a stately dumbshow of the Rape of Helen at which he himself confuses Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel.
Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.
The presence of the stately _khitmutgar_ who was assisting Nick was ignored by them both. The Keeper of the Door
Our vantage is that of an impassive bird, flying invisibly overhead, surveying the world with stately reserve. Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
They adjoin the Alhambra Palace, those stately pleasure domes that the Nasrid caliphs decreed should represent paradise on earth.
I would have to say that the best moment of any cricket match for me is the very first; the stately procession to the middle of the two umpires.
Hollow and solid materials comparison and stable proportional scales highlight the architectural rusticity and massiness with the grand, stately, impressive and bold feeling.
Stately homes, luxury country pads, five-star hotels and even budget youth hostels are lining up to provide race fans accommodation.
One name is in large, stately letters, almost twice the size of the author's.
In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
These last are well worth waiting for; the flower spikes can be up to nine feet tall, bearing stately heads of rich purple, thistle-like flowers above the toothed, grey green foliage.
Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
The two men sat on the front steps at "Elm Bluff", and as Prince's eyes wandered over the exceeding beauty of the "great greenery" of velvet lawn, the stately, venerable growth of forest trees, wearing the adolescent mask of tender young foliage, the outlying fields flanking the park, the sunny acres now awave with crinkling mantles of grain, he sighed very heavily at the realization of all that adverse fortune had snatched away. At the Mercy of Tiberius
Today tying the knot is back in fashion, although the ceremony is as likely to take place in a stately home as a church.
All fire — simply explosive as gunpowder — and stately as a boyar! A Sportsman's Sketches
In France, the dance became slower and more stately, as did the sarabande on its removal to France from Spain.
Beyond the port, the monstrous gaseous globe of Goldin XI precessed in stately, indifferent silence. Flinx's Folly
If at that moment my ancient stately lily pad had been able to draw her bed curtains, she surely would have.
Gardeners serving at stately homes in Yorkshire originated the tradition of forcing rhubarb into growth.
The whole impression of the pretty, disorderly place, compared with the stately drawing-room behind it, was one of intimity and freedom; the room made a friend of you as you entered. Sir George Tressady — Volume I
Filmed by Romeike over nine months, it's a stately but impressive work.
R&D unit - which has brought us Nicam, Teletext, DAB, colour TV - celebrated its sixtieth birthday in August but faced a staff revolt over plans to move from its stately home at Kingswood Warren, Surrey, in to White City, London. MocoNews
His lyrics are offbeat and whip-smart, while the music is stately and pristine yet very much alive and kicking.
From the mouth of the Spokane the Columbia, now out of the woods, flows to the westward with a broad, stately current for a hundred and twenty miles to receive the Okinagan, a large, generous tributary a hundred and sixty miles long, coming from the north and drawing some of its waters from the Cascade Range. Steep Trails
Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager.
From today they can ride on the Ben Hall steam engine, lovingly carved out of a tree felled from lime avenue, the approach to the stately home's main gates.
He was seventy years old, of better than medium height, stately in bearing and with a long, spadelike white beard. Hawaii
Lifted up on this stately mound, whose top is fanned with air as light to breathe as nitrous oxide gas -- and bivouacked on its very ridge, (where nought on earth is seen in distance save the thousand treeless, bushless, weedless hills of grass and vivid green which all around me vanish into an infinity of blue and azure), stretched on our bears 'skins, my fellow-traveller, Mr. Wood, and myself, have laid and contemplated the splendid orrery of the heavens. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
It is also one of the top attractions for the flocks of visitors who visit the Wharfedale stately home and its extensive estate and grounds.
A courtly man with an ornery streak and a stately head of white hair, Hooper seemed typecast for the role of southern chief justice, a role he hoped to wrest from the popular Democratic incumbent, Ernest "Sonny" Hornsby. Karl Rove in a Corner
Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal, Leaves of Grass
Kamigata-mai is an elegant style of traditional dance derived from ancient stately court dances.
These stately craft are an awe-inspiring sight, each carved from the bole of single great ironwood tree.
Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of Hawthorne's, in the tale of “Old Esther Dudley,” A Study Of Hawthorne
The two carriages, each the size of a single-deck bus and weighing 13 tons unladen, arrived in Aviemore borne aloft on a matching pair of stately low-loaders after a journey of some 1,200 miles.
But when they approached the stately brick colonial framed by an expansive front lawn and surrounded by forest, she was completely smitten.
There was something stately and distinguished in her carriage, "queenly" her friends called her, while her critics described her as reserved and distant. Beyond the City
Admittedly instant streetscapes and arcadian landscapes don't seed at the same pace, yet they are both populist responses to the ‘problem’ of the built environment's rather tiresome insistence on weathering at a stately pace.
His mind had not that reach and elemental movement of Milton's, which, like the tradewind, gathered to itself thoughts and images like stately fleets from every quarter; some deep with silks and spicery, some brooding over the silent thunders of their battailous armaments, but all swept forward in their destined track, over the long billows of his verse, every inch of canvas strained by the unifying breath of their common epic impulse. Among My Books Second Series
In my mind, I had pictured a Medusa, a pox-ridden hag with missing teeth and long, dirty fingernails crawling with worms, yet standing before us was a woman who looked proper and stately, hair in a bun, apron neatly ironed, nails trim and pink. Deadly
Medieval towers sprout hither and yon, frontages on the titchy streets have a stately aspect, and from the esplanade by the cathedral, the landscape looks mildly Tuscan.
It concludes with a modern-day Bach chorale in the winds and a restatement of the stately, sonorous string chords from the opening procession.
In one place, this superb basin was lined with quays, where stately dromonds and argosies unloaded their wealth, while, by the shore of the haven, galleys, feluccas, and other small craft, idly flapped the singularly shaped and snow-white pinions which served them for sails. Count Robert of Paris
Demolition debris surrounds the stately but decrepit house of Sripathi Rao, Nandana's grandfather.
Sid and Joey are proud of the family history the farms portray, from the stately Westleigh bank barn to the handmade gate hinges and latches made from iron by a 1930s farmhand.
But on a sudden he found himself surrounded in his progress, like a stately merchantman in the Gut of Gibraltar (I hope the ladies will excuse the tarpaulin phrase) by three Algerine galleys. The Bride of Lammermoor
Hatchards specialise more in the sort of hardbacks that would look good on the bookshelves of the library in the west wing of one's stately mansion.
Carandiru is more measured, and even stately, in the way its old lags - fundamentally respectful - troop through the doctor's infirmary and recount their autobiographies.
‘Styles out of kilter with the stately dignified face of Malvern,’ another resident exclaimed.
The coffin was open, and someone had placed a pint bottle of rye and several blues harps next to the late Junior, who lay there looking stately in a powder-blue suit and derby.
‘We are fortunate in Yorkshire and the Humber to have such a rich historic environment from high quality streetscapes, to mills, workshops, stately homes and opulent parks,’ he said.
His seat, Methven Castle, on a bold acclivitous rising-ground, 1 ¼ mile E of Methven village, is a stately baronial pile of 1680, with extensive modern additions.
The "Iliad" is beautful with all the truth, and grace and simplicity of a wonderfully childlike people while the "Æneid" is more stately and reserved. The Story of My Life
There is stately eremurus; the foxtail lily, perfect for the back of the border; camassia, ideal for woodland plus anemones, hyacinth, iris, bluebell and cyclamen.
The Cathedral itself was just as beautiful, in a more grand and stately manner.
It was found, unframed and unmounted in an album of drawings, by Sotheby's expert Julien Stock in 1999 during a routine inventory of artworks in the library at the Vanbrugh-designed stately home near York.
The cracovienne is a Polish dance for a large and brilliant company and just as Paderewski recalled in his minuet the stately assemblage of days long past, so in his cracovienne he gives us a brilliant picture of a ballroom scene in his native Poland when that country was still in its glory and not partitioned among three nations of Europe. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes. Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
I can now work through Bach's Minuet in G major, BWV 114 without errors, though at a stately, slow pace.
The movement brought the stern to view, with all its garniture-Tritons like those at the bow; name in large raised letters; the rudder at the side; the elevated platform upon which the helmsman sat, a stately figure in full armour, his hand upon the rudder-rope; and the aplustre, high, gilt, carved, and bent over the helmsman like a great runcinate leaf. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
E meu ru ru a vau," it ran, and that was all of it, sung in a stately, endless, ever-varying chant, accompanied by solemn chords from the ukelele. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
His hutch, and that of the warren-cats his collaterals, was a long, spick-and-span new rack, a-top of which (as the mumper told us) some large stately mangers were fixed in the reverse. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Yonder she marches, heaven bless her! through the old oak hall (how long the shadows of the antlers are on the wainscot, and the armor of Rollo Fitz-Boodle looks in the sunset as if it were emblazoned with rubies) -- yonder she marches, stately and tall, in her invariable pearl-colored tabbinet, followed by Lady Dawdley, blazing like a flamingo; next comes Lady Emily Tufthunt (she was Lady The Fitz-Boodle Papers
The young bride and bridegroom had first to perform a stately pavise before the whole assembly in the centre of the floor, in which, poor young things, they acquitted themselves much as if they were in the dancing - master's hands. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
Beneath the old chateau dances a mountain brook, cold from the Jura; in the great courtway is a fountain and fish-pond, and all around are flowering plants and stately palms. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Bed linens are draped, layered and pleated in three grand monochrome compositions that achieve the stately sublimity of religious art.
Later, Scot and bassist Liebig are featured in a duet, and the two sound like a pair of elegant elephants doing a stately little dance.
The procession moved through the mountain village at a stately pace.
His rede the heroes followed/and tourneyed in full stately way. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
No," for a monosyllable is the most one can hope to secure of the conversation in an interview; but the pretty lady interviewer went on reproachfully: "Have you seen that stately hill of the dead, the Without Prejudice
As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable. A History of English Literature
I find his poems endlessly approachable, wonderfully communicative and perfectly inexhaustible: stately, supple, personal and resourceful.
These graced stately homes, were used in libraries and by those with a specific academic interest in botany or horticulture.
This is a state-sanctioned occasion, and it is a stately spectacle with many whirlers and a semi-classical orchestra staged in a basketball stadium in front of coachloads of Japanese tourists.
The appearance of the town is diminished in size, but increased in beauty, by the many stately trees which are planted throughout it, while here and there a huge screen of some musjid rears its Egyptian-looking crest, and gives to the town an appearance peculiar to itself; Jaunpore is, in fact, the only city in India in which this style of architecture prevails. A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
And it is, perhaps, the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection, and betraying that imperfection in every touch, indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors — yellows, whites, pinks. More Jonathan Papers
The taxi driver had parked the car in front of a minor stately home: pink brick, lots of ivy weakening the walls. SUMMER OF SECRETS
The line then pushes its way through a bewildering medley of tropical vegetation -- there are miles of cashew and breadfruit trees, of frangipani and jaks, and more than once a stately talipot-palm is discerned in full blossom -- for half a century the tree has stored its vitality for this one effort; and the burst of splendor spent, its career on earth is ended. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Between August 5 and 8, horse-drawn carriages, ranging from single-pony carriages to stately four-in-hands, were a common sight in Saratoga as carriage enthusiasts traveled to polo and the races.
Her dress was very stately; it was mostly off-white silk, like the color of buttery cream in a churn.
He had indeed ceased to look for any result from it, when all at once, as he stood amongst the laburnums and lilacs of a rather late spring, something seemed to burst in his brain, and that moment he was Endymion waiting for Diana in her interlunar grove, while the music of the spheres made the blossoms of a stately yet flowering forest, tremble all with conscious delight. Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
The clothing, if not exactly regal, was stately, with students making their presence felt by arriving in whites.
Four stately Whimbrels rested quietly amid the dowitchers, which moved quickly and kept probing the mud with their rod-like bills.
Of buildings strong, albeit of paper hight, [A] confronting with massy contrast the lighter, older, more fantastically shrouded one named of Harcourt, with the cheerful Crown Office Row (place of my kindly engendure), right opposite the stately stream which washes the garden foot with her yet scarcely trade-polluted waters and seems but just weaned from Twickenham Na? es! Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
Stately masonries, longdrawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide. Past and Present
There are stately pine forests extending along the centre of the island; but the most beautiful of its trees are what are commonly called dogwood, the laurel, and a delicate species of the white oak. North Carolina and its Resources.
She flung open the door and marched in at her most stately. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
In the supple swaying of her stately figure there was much beauty and power; her sternness had mildened; the circles under her eyes had grown larger during the night, her face paler and leaner; her large eyes had deepened. Mother
It is a soft, sympathetic sort of embrace, which has the appearance of a rather stately group hug.
The queen assumed the stately robes
Even trees of great age, beauty, and cultural significance-the stately rows of pines along the Tokaido highway, the ancient avenue of cryptomeria leading to the Nikko Shrine-were sacrificed in the war effort.
And damn, what a song: it's almost like a hymn in waltz form, with the stately organ and simple melody. Music (For Robots): February 2005 Archives
Seeing that stately building on a hill and knowing the respirator center was on the back with the water view heartened me.
The coat was patterned red and gold like the wallpaper in the dining room of a stately home, had a round collar and was fastened with large gold military buttons.
Also passing higher vp by the banke of Nilus, there is to bee seene a fayre Citie ouerflowed with water, the which at such time as Nilus floweth lyeth vnder water, but when the water returneth to the marke, there plainely appeare princely palaces, and stately pillars, being of some called Thebes, where they say that Pharao was resident. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Priceless antique furniture was destroyed in the fire at the stately home.
In the old Fort area of Bombay, where the British once had their mercantile offices, is a stately stone building called Bombay House.
Stately palms had turned a mottled desert yellow, monuments to their own past life. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Originally named the Mark Twain Steamboat when the park opened in 1955, the stately, 5/8-scale stern-wheeler was the first functional riverboat to be built in the United States for fifty years. Mark Twain Riverboat | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
According to the ‘RailLinks’ pamphlet, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's stately home is down on the south coast, with nearby Bakewell on the Isle of Wight.
Instead of such low language as "Go heel yourself -- I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in stately courtesy are altogether superior. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
Then passed 12 years of me gazing longingly at dovecotes in stately home gardens, and becoming increasingly fascinated by the metaphorical possibilities of dovecotes in my soul.
Closer to home, the Irish Times, once the stately ship of Irish journalism, continues to be battered by storms and controversy.
More than a dozen stately wooden tall ship schooners call the harbors of mid-coast Maine home and lovingly carry on the tradition of sailing where the winds and tides demand. Wicked Good Travel Tips: Cast Your Cares To The Wind On a Maine Windjammer Cruise
Here, all there is to see is a competition of boats, manned by England's best youth, upon a noble river, flowing, in Virgilian phrase, "under ancient walls"; a city of romance, given up for a few days to the pleasure of the young, and breathing into that pleasure her own refining, exalting note; a stately ceremony -- the Encaenia -- going back to the infancy of A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
At stately Augusta, where change forever has been taken in dainty sips, this is like the frat boys just showed up with a keg. USATODAY.com - Traditions die hard at Augusta National
WE next entered a vast forest of the most stately Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by nature at a moderate distance, on a level, grassy plain, enamelled with a variety of flowering shrubs, viz. Viola, Ruellia infundibuliformea, Amaryllis atamasco, Mimosa sensitiva, Mimosa intsia and many others new to me. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
The stately crane, one of the 200 or so remaining in the wild, slowly beat against the north wind, moving up the narrow strip of land.
He was coal and wool joined by a stately hyphen and ennobled by five coronets.
In an artful piece of grand-ham acting, he plays the stately lecher Sir Harcourt Courtley as a cross between a demon king, a pantomime dame and the Duke of Wellington.
Ran means chaos and the form of the film becomes more chaotic as it goes, starting in a very stately style that falls apart as the king undergoes his metamorphosis from godlike being to spiritual leper.
We watched the ship's stately progress out of the harbour.
King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices.
It could simply be that the spa had stolen their excellent chef from a nearby stately home. SUMMER OF SECRETS
In her close-clinging habit, with her black braids securely pinned, a handful of lilies drooping at her waist, and the whole of her fair young figure invested with a sort of stately maidenliness, she formed a sufficient contrast to Rose, who, perched defiantly upon her wicked little steed, looked every inch a rogue. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
He was garbed in a stately light blue tunic, with gold trimming decorating the chest and sleeves.
I would have to say that the best moment of any cricket match for me is the very first; the stately procession to the middle of the two umpires.
Amber Smith, a stately beauty from Season Two, seemed more or less unafflicted until we saw her going through detox — jackknifed over the trash can and probing her epiglottis with a long finger. Retching With the Stars
Sir Thomas More was a man of stately and handsome presence ( Horace Walpole ).
Meanwhile, away from the pain and hurt of individuals, the medical debate continues its stately gavotte - and its occasional less than stately spat - in the journals and conferences.
Throughout the landscape stand stately trees thick enough to remind me of California's sequoias, their massive roots winding over the earth.
The Birds of Australia, which is in the stately home's library together with Gould's The Birds of Europe and The Birds of the Himalayas, is one of the earliest attempts to describe the flora and fauna of the Antipodes.
That included the SS, who held trainloads of loot stolen from churches, banks, stately homes, museums and castles from around Europe.
With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world.
To this lovely home, surrounded by lawns and stately trees, Lawrence gave the name Mount Vernon, in honor of the Admiral under whom he had served. George Washington
If Lottery backing is approved, a five-year project will see the grounds of the Georgian stately home restored to their former glory.
They will remove small pine that, if left, would swamp the open heath and drive out scarce wildlife such as woodlark, common lizard and a range of attractive butterflies and moths, including the stately Emperor moth. Express & Star
I have studied under learned professors in stately halls of learning.
Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.
The grants are being offered for work on everything from thatched cottages to stately homes and castles, large and small country houses, town houses, churches, workhouses and public buildings, including an old post office.
Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Moreover, at the evening's dance, when Margaret and Suffolk, Ferry and Yolande stood up for a stately pavise together, Sigismund came to Two Penniless Princesses
Stately, unhurried and serene , it is a celebration of peace, beauty and excellence.
The cars heading down curve slowly, as one watches the flower beds on both sides, not to speak of the stately mansions, condominiums and townhouses that the street bifurcates.
The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a _noyade_. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)

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