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Quotes about Stately

There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:
- Proverbs 30:29
against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
- Isaiah 2:16
Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is an added grandeur. A nose to the whale would have been impertinent.
- Herman Melville
upon the tarnished head-boards, nearby, appeared, in stately capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, SAN DOMINICK, each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds, dark festoons of sea-grass slimily swept to and fro over the name, with every hearse-like roll of the hull.
- Herman Melville
A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.
- John Bunyan