"Sedate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bearing their importunity very calmly for some time, suddenly turned round, and with the most serious face thus addressed them—'I have often heard of the sovereignty of the people; I suppose your highnesses are in Court mourning,' We can well imagine the effect of this sedate speech on the ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... Elizabethan pit with the rough London apprentices and the Elizabethan boxes with superfine gallants and courtiers; why he has been a delight equally to the worldling, to whom always "the play's the thing," and to the sedate scholar, who has perchance never set foot in a theatre, and to whom a play is a dramatic poem printed in a book. Yet the reason is simple. It is because Shakespeare's gifts are numerous and varied enough to appeal to populace and gallant, to worldling and student; they meet to the full ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker
... the lofty group sedate, I see Great Franklin muse where Truth had locked her stores, Holding within his steady hand the key ...
— A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves • James Barron Hope
... make no "silence in the hills;" for the Pamet, as I saw it, is far too sedate a stream ever to be caught "babbling." It has only some three miles to run, and seems to know perfectly well that it ...
— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey
... left him with the group of elders who closed the proceedings and locked up the school. But after this, further delay was impossible. The whole party moved out into the moonlight, and the Rector and his son, the schoolmaster and the teachers, commenced a sedate parish gossip, while Bill trotted behind, wondering whether any possible or impossible business would take one of them his way. But when the turning-point was reached, the Rector destroyed ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade
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