Examples of stately

• This expansion slows down the pace, making it more earnest and allowing for subsequent accelerations without undoing the stately tone.

• It abounds in fruits, and has good baths and stately palaces.

• Copies in circulating libraries probably gained more readers than those in stately homes.

• Then is she kind and cruel, stately and unassuming, various, beautifully wilful.

• This dispute was not done in rapid fire, was not the sort of intellectual firestorm that now agitates the correspondence columns of literary reviews, but was enacted in stately leisure.

• The result is a stately circulating movement of minuet-like character; whenever the creatures touch they become obstacles and withdraw but are attracted again in rhythmic fashion.

• How far removed they are from the stately dignity of our highly intelligent badge messengers.

• In other countries, setts are protected as we would protect our stately homes.

• Although the rubric phrases it in somewhat stately terms, virtually the object appears to be to settle certain bad debts by writing them off.

• The other was to a comprehensive school which had taken over a stately home—a rather unlikely start you might have thought.

• You desecrate a national treasure, no less than by turning a stately home into an auto parts warehouse.

• Subsection (7) is a technical amplification of when a building, such as a stately home, is considered open to the public.

• We should not accept the idea that in order to exploit tourism one requires the presence of a castle or stately home.

• Is there no "stately home" that might be acquired in the meantime?

• But after that they visit a stately home.