He built that statelyhouse at Ampthill in Bedfordshire (now the earle of Alesbury's).
His noble foundation of his Colledge of Christ-Church, in Oxford, where the statelyhall was only perfected by him.
As he spoke he held out his right hand to his companion with gay yet stately cordiality.
These facts Glinda was considering while she paced with statelytread her marble hall.
Fragrant wild flowers were scattered throughout the grass; there were bushes bearing lovely blossoms and luscious fruits; now and then a group of stately trees added to the beauty of the landscape.
Three were young women of stately presence, very beautifully dressed, who moved with remarkable grace.
That is something we must consider carefully," responded stately Glinda, with a serene smile.
Some of the girls looked upon this object enviously; the Sorceress merely gave it a glance and nodded her stately head as if pleased, for it meant the coming of her friend and mistress--the only one in all the land that Glinda bowed to.
The groups on the quay grew animated as more sail was set, and in a slow and stately fashion the new ship drew near.
Down came the ponderous arches, the stately columns, the massive walls, the lofty spires, tumbling upon the heads of priests and people.
What could be done to stay the fierce march of the flames which were sweeping resistlessly over palace and hovel alike, over stately hall and miserable hut?
The banker and his stately wife came in, but Lyman had no eye for them.
How stately your house looks from here; how cool and restful.
But no; the cold world of fashion, that from its cushioned pew has listened with stately devotion to the words of the Redeemer, has taught her that to redeem the fallen is beneath her caste.
Scattered here and there were the humble dwellings of the forester and husbandman, and, from their midst, towering above them, like Jupiter among the demigods, stately and stern rose the old castle of the house of Stramen.
They no longer stayed to desolate the humble dwellings in their path, but swept on against the stately castle which seemed to bid them defiance.
Everything around this stately edifice bespoke the magnificence of its ancient possessors and the taste of its present master.
Something of the girl's stately and exquisite poise forsook her.
Very stately in his long, black cape, and with his pensive Dantesque face, Forrest continued on his slow progress to the open door and went out of the dining-room.
The first pannel held two full-length portraits; a stately pair of olden time, in old-time dress; the founders of the house.
Yet she was very affectionate to Primrose, a littlestately to Mrs. Coles; and gave Dr.
Prim found her very stately over reports, after this; and even good Dr.
Duchess,' said he with stately form, 'Primrose's cousin Kitty desires to be recommended to your grace.
He walked on, till at last he came to a great and stately mansion with a crowd of builders at work upon it, and they were roofing it with a thatch made of the wings of strange birds.
One day when Conan and certain others of the Fianna were hunting in the forest they came to a stately Dún, white-walled, with coloured thatching on the roof, and they entered it to seek hospitality.
Illustration: "They rode up to a stately palace"] At last the sky gloomed above them, and Niam urged their steed faster.
Oh, sweet and stately words, revealing, through their calm reserve, the inmost secret of a life that did not flare with transient enthusiasm but glowed with unquenchable devotion to a cause!
The log cabin has no monopoly of it, nor is it an immovable fixture of the stately pillared mansion.
In the next I see myself dwelling in some stately apartments that formed the antechambers to the great prison.
Bowing to me in a stately fashion, they withdrew, leaving us alone.
He it was who had been in command at Mechlin--entrusted by General de Noircarmes with the hideous task of destroying the stately city--and he had done it with a will.
The Spaniards occupy one side of the aisle, the Flemings, with the women and children, are on the other, and crowd every corner of the stately edifice.
He already saw the spires of stately cathedrals, the domes of palaces, vineyards, gardens, and groves.
Instead of the decorous tread and stately mien of the cavaliers of the former vision, they came pushing, bustling, panting, and swaggering.
A stately merchantman with snowy canvas was entering the Gate.
Stately clippers swept into the Gate, and merchantmen went by with colors flying, and the welcoming gun of the steamer often reverberated among the hills.
Miss Tompkins to herself, glancing at the stately Pike as he bent over his paddle to conceal his emotion.
So they moved on solemnly toward the sea, where, in the distance, Father Jose sawstately caravels, bearing the same familiar banner, awaiting them.
Away from the glare of the red road, how deliciously cool was the damp breath and twilight dimness of the stately pines.
The two ladies made very stately salutations to each other, and the stranger sat down, and then there was a dead pause.
Mary put out her hand, looking stately and firm as she did so--but in truth it was done half groping, out of a sudden mist that had come up about her.
Mary sat at the foot of the table as stately as a queen, showing the guest only such attentions as were absolutely necessary.
If she could not be married to him with statelypropriety in her parish church, she would manage to marry him somehow in any irregular way, and she would by no means hesitate to say so or shrink from the responsibility.
They kissed Mary, and shook hands with Aunt Agatha; and then Mrs. Kirkman stopped short, and looked at Winnie, and made her a most stately curtsey.
Who that ever saw them can forget that stately bearing, that Jove-like brow, that sublime air of omniscience and omnipotence?
In Hanover Square, Chantrey's statelystatue of William Pitt has looked down on a century of aristocratic weddings, ascending and descending the steps of St. George's Church.
All these buildings followed the same general plan, consisting of a reading-room and more or less ample book stores; the former was either rectangular or semi-circular in shape and was approached under a stately portico and colonnade.
A number of stately old dowagers sat in a row on one side, and old gentlemen on the other.
And together we composed the letter which led to my sitting, two days later, in stately conference at his club with Mr Arnold Abney, M.
Chapter 14 I At the receipt of custom behind the bar sat Miss Benjafield, stately as ever, relaxing her massive mind over a penny novelette.
On a beautiful hill Baltimore has erected a stately monument to the memory of the man who linked her name with the majestic anthem which gives fitting voice to our national hopes.
Her gardens were stately with oleanders and pomegranates, brilliant with jonquils and hyacinths, myrtle and gardenia.
Duncan Lodge, now an industrial home, was then a stately mansion, shaded by magnificent trees.
It was a two-story building with spacious rooms and appointments that suggested the taste of the cultivated mistress of the stately dwelling.
To-day the patriot soldiers asleep in Magnolia, and their poet alike, have stately testimonials of the loving memory of their people.
The impression that he was the inmate of a stately mansion, where he was trained to extravagance which wrought disaster in later years, is not borne out by the evidence.
Majestic old live-oaks with twilight veils of gray moss were like tall and stately nuns pausing suddenly to count their beads to the music of vesper bells.
Under that stately tree he Seemed to drink the sunset like strong wine Or, hushed in trance divine, Hailed the first shy and timorous glance from far Of evening's virgin star.
Mrs. Villars, taking a light, requested Mabel to follow her, with stately kindness.
The stately importance, or smiling dignity, with which she received her levy of morning callers, or evening guests, showed no wavering conscience, or doubtful heart.
