Majestic

Examples

• The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Beggin' your pardon, Sir,' replied Mrs. Cluppins, in a majestic manner, 'I would scorn the haction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I will not be interfered with by Jane, said Mrs. Pocket, with a majestic glance at that innocent little offender. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My son's choice shall be mine, said Mrs. Farebrother, with majestic discretion, and a wife would be most welcome, Camden. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was something grand and majestic in her motions, but nothing persuasive, nothing amiable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sir Leicester directs his majestic glance down one side of the long drawing-room and up the other before he can believe that he is awake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Our misery took its majestic shape and colouring from the vast ruin, that accompanied and made one with it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here in brilliant Paris, under this majestic Arch of Triumph, the First Century greets the Nineteenth! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Slowly and with majestic grace the battleship dropped until she rested on the water. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange; but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river, that I never before saw equalled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If he liked the majestic, she was the very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Majestic gloom and tragic pomp attended the decease of wretched humanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To whom presenting himself, she delivered the brief but majestic charge, 'Miss Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The law in its majestic equality, writes Anatole France, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep in the streets and to steal bread. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here, for the judgment of the reader, is an example of these majestic utterances, from the recent orthodox translation by the Maulvi Muhammad Ali. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mrs. Nupkins was a majestic female in a pink gauze turban and a light brown wig. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I forgot him, as I swiftly darted through the open portal, and up the majestic stairs of this castle of victories--heard Adrian's voice--O fool! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mrs. Pell was a tall figure,' said Pell, 'a splendid woman, with a noble shape, and a nose, gentlemen, formed to command and be majestic. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They had a majestic foundation, though they were far from being majestic; and they had a ground-work of assurance, but they were not assured. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I found her a fine woman, in the style of Blanche Ingram: tall, dark, and majestic. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If there be any man of letters, art, or science among these little dealers, how noble in him to support the feeble sisters on such majestic crutches! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We shall remember, always, how we saw majestic Gibraltar glorified with the rich coloring of a Spanish sunset and swimming in a sea of rainbows. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She pointed to the majestic block of white marble behind her, and there was deeply sculptured the one word Θε?ν. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• None but a compatriot, his Excellency declared, could have performed that majestic dance in such a way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her lord being cherubic, she was necessarily majestic, according to the principle which matrimonially unites contrasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mrs Wilfer bent her head in a distant manner to her lady visitor, and with majestic monotony replied to the gentleman: 'Pardon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind, and causing me to forget the passing cares of life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Upon a low-hanging branch sat Tarzan directly above the majestic, supple body as it forged silently through the thick jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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