Majestically

Examples

• I meant no harm, young man,' observed Mr. Bumble, majestically. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The door was softly shut again; then after another interval it swung majestically open, and a murmur ran through the church: The family! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Dora--' 'Miss Spenlow, if you please,' said her father, majestically. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You would have better reasons than these for slighting so respectable a class of men, said Mrs. Farebrother, majestically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No; the great magician who majestically works out the appointed order of the Creator, never reverses his transformations. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Sir Leicester is majestically wroth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And she went slowly and majestically out of the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Sir Leicester, deeming it time to dismiss the officer, here majestically interposes with the words, Very good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Following it came another, and another, and another, until twenty of them, swinging low above the ground, sailed slowly and majestically toward us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And she majestically walked to and fro along their disconsolate and impatient line, like a little Bonaparte in a mouse-coloured silk gown. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is evident to the whole company, though nobody can see him, that Sir Leicester is staring majestically. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I heard her say the same thing myself, said Lady Chettam, majestically, as if this were royal evidence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sir,' said she, majestically. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Sir, said Jos, majestically, when I want money, I know where to ask for it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The green woods waved their boughs majestically, while the dying were spread beneath their shade, answering the solemn melody with inharmonious cries. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They are very like their mamma, Sir,' said Mr. Pott, majestically. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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