#stately

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle. ↗

— Charles Perrault

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Build thee more stately mansions. ↗

— Amy Marcy Beach

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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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