In the church great sedateness and devotion or silence reigns.
The sedateness of this announcement was inexpressible, coming as it did after a little thoughtful pause.
So she faced the doctor and answered him with the sedateness of fifty years--"I can't very well tell you, Dr.
And the Countess can look a profound merriment with perfect sedateness when there appears to be an equivoque in company.
He had no mischievous tricks; he was never noisy; he would sit by himself in a corner with a book, and with such sedateness and propriety, never even leaning back in his chair.
He was surprised at thesedateness of her answers, and at a strange look of excited solicitude that arose in her eyes.
Thank you" (she was all sedateness now) "I fear that Principal Trenholme is suffering very much from his foot and will be kept in for some time.
Let us then, my Imogen, compose ourselves to the sedateness of despair.
While she spoke this she began gradually to gain a more entire sedateness and self-command.
Alas," cried Imogen, "I understand not in what the sedateness of despair consists.
She assured him, with a sudden sedateness which hid itself shyly on his breast, "Of course I could not do without you to save me from being a pillar of salt, to make me a loving, happy woman.
She has left off the giddiness of childhood to take on the sedateness of youth.
Answer, It is a kind of sedatenessor slowness 154 But Temperance is a fine or honourable thing, and slowness is, in many or most cases, not fine or honourable, but the contrary.
I hope she will not diverge too far from her present sedateness and solidity; yet I am not without apprehensions of danger on that score.
The continued sedateness of his posture, gives him the appearance of his dormancy, and the yogi continues in this position, the practice of the mortification of all his desires.
Equanimity expands the soul, and gladdens the minds, as the sunlight fills the vault of heaven; and it is the unchangeable sedateness of the mind, which is reckoned as the highest devotion.
She continued this with a certain sedateness and concentration until the tassel went beyond her reach and caught in the curtain.
She looked across the dining-room to where the child was talking with old-fashioned sedateness to her father.
So she faced the doctor, and answered him with the sedateness of fifty years "I can't very well tell you, Dr.
Whether this arose from pure melancholy, or the still lingering hope of making her conquest, by that sedateness of manners which she knew her guardian admired, she herself perhaps did not perfectly know.
The inhabitants are distinguished for their sedateness and moderation; old age is more respected by them than by any other community.
Yet were the priests now and then angry with him for his greatsedateness and reservedness, which they called pride and haughtiness.
