sedateness

• “No wifely sedateness in this other, nor calm strength of control; but rather the waywardness of mutable desires, rough-shod imperiousness and strange moods.”

  THE PROPER “GIRLIE”

• “No longer puppies, vaguely proud of the sedateness of maturity, they strove to be proud and sedate while all their impulse was to rush together in a frantic ecstasy.”

  CHAPTER XXIV

• “My guess would be that in a society without much in the way of leash laws or big backyards, dogs with anti-social habits are dealt with, summarily, and that selects for pro-social habits of sedateness among the survivors.”

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• “But it never takes Americans long to conquer sedateness, and soon roadside restaurants were being built in the shapes of giant oranges and milk cartons and upside-down ice cream cones.”

  Newsweek: At The Table On The Road

• “The rubber was conducted with all that gravity of deportment and sedateness of demeanour which befit the pursuit entitled”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “But, indeed, she only to make a face at me, so that I did be near like to shake her unto sedateness.”

  The Night Land

• “Born of a good family in Toulouse, and allied by marriage to the minister who first took him under his protection, Ernest had that air of good-breeding which comes of an education begun in the cradle; and the habit of managing business affairs gave him a certain sedateness which was not pedantic, — though pedantry is the natural outgrowth of premature gravity.”

  Modeste Mignon

• “But I was taken by that air of cold And statuesque sedateness, when she said 'I'm going'; lit a taper, bowed her head, And went, as with the stride of Pallas bold.”

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• ““You alarm me exceedingly, by this moving sedateness.””

  Pamela

• “The sedateness of her aspect and her kind compliance in this meeting gave me hopes.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

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