I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.
A stately pleasure-dome decree.
She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow of surface from the temples over the cheek is exactly like the carving of a Phidean goddess
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.
We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.
I became one of the stately homos of England.
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.
Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
