There was a stateliness and solidity about this rebuke which seemed to impress even my headstrong antagonist.

But there was a stateliness in this man amounting almost to consciousness of dignity; and I was a little bewildered.

There was a stateliness in the movement of his intellect, and an evidence of power, that oppressed you at times with wonder.

In the ecclesiastic's bearing there was a stateliness befitting a dignitary of the Church; and the episcopal violet hue already appeared in his dress.

There was a stateliness in his manner that grieved me, for when a man meets a rebuff with silence and dignity he is aging.