The surpassing stateliness of much of the coast declines to be expressed in ink or paint.
The beauty of building and stateliness of ritual that characterised the shrines of Buddhist India or of Egypt or of Greece were but faintly reflected in the rude and untaught North.
She seemed taller in white; as she took a few steps toward me, I was aware of a stateliness I had missed at the shore.
What was the head waiter's name who presided with so muchstateliness in the dining-room of the Tyringham?
He raised his foot and warmed a muddy boot, while his thoughts went back to the stateliness and airy purity of the old manor house, where the great logs cracked and glowed upon the hearths.
Ah," said the girl with a simplicity that had a certain stateliness in it, "I think I would go anywhere with you.
Egerton, all his stateliness and all his energy restored to him.
Yet withal she was so graceful, and her very stateliness was so pretty and captivating, that she was not the less loved for all her grand airs.
In the ecclesiastic's bearing there was a stateliness befitting a dignitary of the Church; and the episcopal violet hue already appeared in his dress.
These North Italian cabinets were often covered with intarsia or marquetry, which by its subdued gaiety retrieved somewhat their heavy stateliness of form.
All that we know of Burke exhibits him as inspired by a resolute pride, a certain stateliness and imperious elevation of mind.
And with great stateliness and dignity she walked for ten yards down the hillside.
This was a great relief to me, as I hardly felt enough at home to have quite recovered from my old sense of oppression at the extreme stateliness of the meal.
Indian bounded over the side into his canoe, leaving the whole crew wondering at the statelinessand courtesy of this bold sea-cavalier.
While chivalry was losing its martial vigour in the French monarchy, some of the nobility of France preserved it in their castles in all its stateliness and grace.
Lewisham and Lee Mail in a breathless article described it) into "a veritable bower of roses equalling in stateliness and expensiveness the most splendid habitations of Belgravia and the West End.
Its bouquet filled the time-worn stateliness of the dining-room.
It seemed to me a sort of desecration of the grand, quiet stateliness of the old place to have all these gay people invading it.
Bidding her farewell, the old man gave, with lessstateliness than tenderness, his fatherly blessing upon her and her new home.
The old gentleman was dressed with unusual care, and walked with even more of slow stateliness than ordinary.
There is no doubt a certain stateliness about the East Front and the Fountain Court; but it is a heavy and monumental stateliness which ill accords with the really picturesque portions of the old palace.
There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees.
To complete the whole, he had a stateliness in his gait when he walked, not unlike of a goose, only he stalked slower.
She received them with a frankness which almost belied the stateliness of her demeanour.
Rose also wondered at the unusual dignity andstateliness of the lady, and with renewed admiration for her queenly bearing she remained silent.
Still there was no mistaking that imperious posture and stateliness of form, or the braids of jetty hair.
