Adjective : a sedate party; a sedate horse. From Dictionary.com.
He climbs in sedately and fills the seat with his well-built person, his large Circassian moustaches standing out before him. From Wordnik.com. [Naguib Mahfouz - Prose] Reference
"Let's move on," she recommended, rising sedately. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Judith followed sedately with her head in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Soberly and sedately do we pass our morning hours. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Silence! oh, people! keep your mouths sedately shut!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Janice could not walk sedately -- she fairly skipped. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
The girl smiled sedately, and they went off together. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
With them, but more sedately and meekly, Elizabeth Hadden. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
Hood tripped sedately to the imaginary door, and knocked. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The rain had stopped, a few stars sedately decked the sky. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
For such a caffeinated conversation, it starts sedately enough. From Wordnik.com. [Coffeehouse Stories: Two decades of wisdom in Del Ray] Reference
The girls sit sedately on the carpet and wait for instructions. From Wordnik.com. [Separate but equal: More schools are dividing classes by gender] Reference
Down the valley it moved sedately and across the little mountain city. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Mrs. Quirk flew to the window, while the old man followed more sedately. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Anna started off very sedately, measuring her steps and holding her head. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
If the old gentleman took it sedately and placidly, it was just the reverse with her. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
McSherry, who was coming sedately along the footpath in an opposite direction to her own. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
I received it sedately, and dismist him with the compunction so worthy a gentleman merited. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
"I should think it would be a very good thing for you to try, Miss Pat," she said sedately. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
"Dinner is served, madame," said the soft voice at the door, and they all walked out sedately. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
Sarah did not swing sedately -- she must do that as she did everything else, fast and furiously. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
They went sedately, in all seeming, for the mountain folk are chary in demonstrations of affection. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Behold the river now, coursing as sedately as the high-road, between two interminable lines of poplars. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Through the mist he could see two cows 'coming home' on the haugh below slowly and sedately to their milking. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Graceful couples moved sedately on a polished floor, diners sat at tables, black-clad waiters moving among them. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
So Dora went, sedately for the first few steps, afterwards with a happy rush, the curls dancing on her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Looking out of the window, I beheld the strange spectacle of a cow walking sedately down the middle of the street. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
He speaks with emphasis, on these occasions, and then reverts, more sedately than ever, to his accustomed silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
'Where is us going to, Theo?' sedately inquired Queenie, after she had settled her family to her mind in the boat. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Celestials moved sedately along, slow, persistent, sure to gain the goal in good time, -- that was China all over. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Our numbers will advance more rapidly by the use of short feet, and more coolly and sedately by the use of long ones. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
The rural citizen has elbow-room to take his politics sedately and order his going with temperate pulse and judicial mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
The streets, to be quite truthful, were as sedately quiet as any thoroughfares could well be, and proudly call themselves boulevards. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Cyndi Lauper, sporting hair from a similar dye vat, showed up at the same party, where she schmoozed with the more sedately coiffed Al B. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand Night For Singing] Reference
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