Peter, therefore, set off one morning and scared the learned and sedate ladies of St. Cyr out of their propriety by requesting to be shown at once to Mme.
And now at a sedate pace, drawn by a sleek mule, comes a Peking cart.
She walked leisurely, with the sedate tread of an elderly woman, and she carried on her arm a basket.
His "Dream of Gerontius" and his "The Apostles" should convince his compatriots that heretofore they have been content to compose in a manner all too sedate and unemotional.
This is the Hillcrest Sanitarium," pipes another voice over the wire, very sedate and dignified.
Well, you big hick, where d'ye get that Sedate Sam stuff?
The accuser was almost petrified with astonishment at such inconceivable conduct on the part of that sedate religious assembly.
Another sedate individual, dressed in Quaker costume, wanted me to join him in an oat speculation.
Presently the sedate gentleman said: “Edward, this is Stratford.
In time, I doubt not, I shall make her uniformly sedate and decorous, without being unaccountably pensive.
Have a queer way I learned from a sedate old uncle, who used to tip off his glass-unperceived.
He recovered from his wounds, but was always a very sedate bird.
There is something curious about this small isolated colony: the birds are far less loquacious and more sedate in manner than daws are wont to be.
By degrees the sedate influence of the silent vaults seemed to depress him.
Is that grim sedate man right when he says that women are the moving influence that drives men to such carnage?
He is a very sedate and learned philosopher who wrote that statement, and yet I cannot believe it.
But I prefer to cultivate a sedate and scientific attitude of mind; I do not want to repeat catalogues of evils; I want to point out ways whereby the intemperate may be cured.
Whoever iz a sedate old man at 20, will be apt tew be a frivilous yung one at 60.
The turkey iz a sedate person, and seldum forgits herself by gitting onto a frolik.
The tone of the work may be gathered from the sedate foreword to the public.
John Marrot with his lieutenant, Garvie, moved to the front on his iron horse, looking as calm and sedate in his conscious power as his horse looked heavy and unyielding in its stolidity.
Proceeding to the booking-office he held a brief conversation with the clerks there; then he sauntered into the telegraph-office and delivered a message, after which he left the station with a quiet smile on his sedate countenance.
Such good qualities as lady Margaret accorded her cousin were of a sort more fitted to please a less sedate and sober-minded damsel than Dorothy, who was fashioned rather after the model of a puritan than a royalist maiden.
She was one of those on whose wits, usuallysedate in their motions, all sorts of excitement, danger amongst the rest, operate favourably.
Amy Seaton, sedate and modest as ever, with laughing Charlie for her beau, and several others, among whom we might mention Miss Martha Pinkerton, made up the little party.
In my demeanour I was always sedate and respectful--full of humility, and self-accusation.
But, father, if report speaks truly, my mother was not a verysedate maiden.
The American has not yet ousted the Turk from Serbia, and the bite from our wheel banged off the revolutions of our sedate passing.
The canter subsided into a trot, and the trot into a sedate walk--and still they sat there; and so defiant was the expression on each ugly face that at last the intruder thought it wisest to turn back and ride ignominiously away.
The letters which passed between him and his betrothed partake of the same sedate character; but through the unimpassioned Quaker style gleams the steady warmth of sincere affection.
He was a sedate gentle lad, and had always been a very pleasant child to his parents.
