Stateliest

Replied the Prince, ‘Go ye to my father and acquaint him with my case, and fetch us tents, for we will tarry here seven days to rest ourselves till he make ready his retinue to meet us, that we may enter in stateliest state.’ — ❋ Unknown (2006)

No problem, said the architect, and after six months, for a cool million dollars, he produced the stateliest bathroom anyone had ever seen. ❋ Gene Weingarten (2010)

So the kings said that they would give him all things soever that he desired, and therewith was a great army got ready, and all things wrought in the most heedful wise, ships and all war-gear, so that his journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and noblest; richly wrought were their sails, and glorious to look on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Janshah said to the two Mamelukes, ‘Go ye to my sire and acquaint him with my case and fetch us tents, for we will abide here seven days to rest ourselves, till he make ready his retinue to meet us that we may enter in the stateliest state.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

The best work and the worst, the plainest and the richest, the stateliest and the least imposing — both of ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Bigwig family (composed of all the stateliest people thereabouts, and all the noisiest) had undertaken to save him the trouble of thinking for himself, and to manage him and his affairs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Among the graves were those of a young mother and her children, and when I found the place in late summer their graves were set about with a few tall magenta torches of blazing-star, stateliest of prairie flowers. ❋ M-mv (2007)

Only pride and the stateliest resolution looked out of her eyes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Such unity marked their expressions of admiration for the red – brick building that they might have come there for no other purpose than to assure each other that this palace was the stateliest palace in the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Navarre, which bear the coffin of the discoverer in stateliest processional on their shoulders, may be censured for being too boldly superb, too almost swagger, but I will not be the one to censure them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

You saw that at forty, at fifty, she would be one of the stateliest of dames. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was but now that I never more for woes that weighed on me waited help long as I lived, when, laved in blood, stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, — widespread woe for wise men all, who had no hope to hinder ever foes infernal and fiendish sprites from havoc in hall. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He knows that in the whole history of the race of men no single great and high and beneficent thing was ever done for the souls and bodies, the hearts and the brains of the children of this world, but a Mugwump started it and Mugwumps carried it to victory: And their names are the stateliest in history: Washington, Garrison, Galileo, Luther, ❋ Unknown (2003)

Among the timber in these glens were some of the stateliest stringy bark trees that we had ever beheld: in fact, the timber altogether is unusually good. ❋ Unknown (2003)