She served coffee with great stateliness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a stately home. From Dictionary.com.
… She had a dignity so natural and certain that it deserved the name of stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
The difficulty, of course, isn't the "stateliness", it's the money. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Analysts] Reference
He isn't pompous, but he's acquired a kind of stateliness of manner that's made. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
There were observations about the "stateliness" of events at the White House and the propriety of Florence Harding's wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He was a tall, lounging fellow, rather clumsy in his movements, but with a kind of stateliness about him; he looked, and was, old for his years. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College] Reference
"I am not at all angry," said Margaret, with stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Perhaps gaining in stateliness what he loses in clearness. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He replied, however, with his usual honest stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
The addition wanted the stateliness of the original fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
However, it has a deliberative stateliness and a certain monarchal tone. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
For Keineth the simple stateliness of the place had an atmosphere of romance. From Wordnik.com. [Keineth] Reference
Brera and Florence Academy pictures, but with an added stateliness and gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
The members of the Court acquire a certain stateliness by their lofty fellowship. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I think my pride in her lent stateliness to my steps as I led her out in the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
That she was dignified, even to stateliness, is shown us by the statement made by Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Noble writing, it certainly is, though its stateliness is a shade too self-conscious, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Mohamedoo, awaiting my arrival with as much stateliness as if he had been a scion of civilized royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Entering the room with an air of stateliness she deems necessary to the position she desires to maintain. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
She therefore measured the man with her woman's and mother's eye, and said, with a little stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
The moment I entered the apartment, the fat gentleman held out his hand, and shook mine with much stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Nor even in their oxen is found the usual stateliness, no more than the natural ornaments and grandeur of head. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
He has more than once, 'the old soldier went on with a certain stateliness,' expressed a certain regard for me. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
The calm old mansion with its delicate outlines, its dreamy exquisite stateliness, spoke of rest and sweet serenity. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
With Cora a renewal of tenderness toward "Dear John," and an increased stateliness toward Miss Arthur and the servants. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"I am sorry to have troubled you," said Janetta, not without stateliness, although her lips trembled a little as she spoke. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Between the swiftness of the Swallow and the stateliness of the birds of prey, the whole range of bird-motion seems included. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
In severe dignity of features and stateliness of carriage the Armenian females are not unlike the Circassian and the Georgian. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
All that we know of Burke exhibits him as inspired by a resolute pride, a certain stateliness and imperious elevation of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He possessed no capricious dislikes, and his kindly heart, in spite of a stateliness of bearing, won all the people who came near him. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It combines the solidity and stateliness of the standard hymns of the ages, with the life and sprightliness of the modern gospel song. From Wordnik.com. [The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship] Reference
He came from the ruins of ancient Egypt, and looked in his calm stateliness as though he might have gazed upon the Pharaohs themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Her eyes rested levelly on his; in her bearing there was something aloofly proud -- an undiminished stateliness, almost regal in its calm inviolability. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
This will reveal to him the differences between his work and the original; and bring into relief the peculiarity of each author's style -- the stateliness of De. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
There had been something of a mother's tenderness in her love for Bertie, which made her appear more than her real age and gave decision and stateliness to her manner. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"You are a very forward little boy," she was about to say, but the words faltered on her lips, and she merely turned away, overwhelming poor Joseph with her stateliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
What think you of callas -- their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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