"Statelily" Quotes from Famous Books
... was in her chamber; her sins were on her head; She looked the spirits up and down and statelily she said: 'Backwards and forwards and sideways though I've been, Yet I am Harry's daughter and I am England's Queen!' And she faced the looking-glass (and whatever else there was), And she saw her day was over and ... — Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... to see the girl of Dunbwy Stepping the mountain statelily— Though ragged her gown, and naked her feet, No lady in Ireland to match ... — Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... whispered, "and we'll be happy in France—in Switzerland—in Holland—I want to see the park at the Hague again; and the tall trees with their straight big trunks green with moss; and the boughs meeting over the canals and making the clear water so black; and the snow-white swans sailing statelily about." ... — The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips) |