James Hepburn of Keith, with drawn sword, led the way; beautiful women distributed white cockades to enraptured Jacobites; the stateliest chivalry of Scotland made obeisance to its rightful prince.
Gallant gentlemen who bore some of the stateliest names of England and of Scotland waited on the stair-ways for the tidings that a new prince was given unto their loyalty.
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt.
This front, covered with sculptures, is of the richest, stateliest effect.
He saluted Antonia with his stateliest bow, blinking at her curiously, but too short-sighted to be aware of her beauty in the dim light of the parlour, where evening shadows were creeping over the panelled walls.
She saluted the soldier with her stateliest curtsey, and departed with the resolute aplomb of a duchess.
Cypress here, and stateliest pine, Spire o'er the nether shades, as emulous Of sole distinction where all nature smiles.
The Spaniard by no means avoided her company, except in her father's house; he only took care to obey her carefully, by seeming always unconscious of her presence, beyond the stateliest of salutes at entering and departing.
Then fell Callicrates, the stateliest and strongest soldier in the whole army, lamenting, not death, but that his sword was as yet undrawn against the invader.
No quay, no terrace, not even a slab is to be seen before the doors; one step brings you from the hall into the bark, and the vestibules of the stateliest structures lie open to the waters, and level with them.
It being Whit-Sunday, this altar was covered with statues of gold, shrines, and candelabra of the stateliest shape and most delicate execution.
Stateliest forest patriarch, Grand in robes of skin and bark, What sepulchral mysteries, What weird funeral-rites, were his?
It is the stateliest and the costliest ever erected to the memory of any man.
It is the stateliest thing, so far, of man's making.
It is a structure of considerable pretensions, the stateliest in Vescovato.
The stateliestof them is the Via Traversa, a street of six and seven-storied houses, bending towards the sea; it is only a few years old, and still continues to receive additions.
Behind him stood thestateliest group of sons that ever filled with pride a father's eye.
The ladies grow impatient of a commune that detains from their eyes the stateliest knight since the Round Table was chopped into fire-wood.
Another which I tried, opened into a hall of stateliest dimensions, the three windows of which looked out upon a large park-like garden.
It was one of the stateliest mansions in the town.
Form and size: A tall tree, the stateliest of the evergreens.
Form and size: The tulip tree is one of the largest, stateliest and tallest of our trees.
At our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
Matters being thus settled and the next morning named for the British evacuation of Christendom, needs must pass the usual courtesies between the then stateliest people of Cartagena and the bluntest.
In her streets, and hers alone among the cities of the world, may every form of human speech be heard: she is more glorious in her decay and desolation than the stateliest seats of modern power.
So spoke my friend, the Poet, and read me one of his stateliest songs, and after it a gay chanson, and then a string of epigrams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stateliest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
