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All the great social questions were closely analyzed by men who were fast becoming insensible to them. When he was too far gone to play the mild, sedate philosopher, he began that monotonous singing whose music carried him back to the days when the shadow of the white man never darkened the forests, and the Indian canoe alone rippled the tranquil waters. Should this man be thus lost?
Colonel Fortescue himself, by way of setting an example, would do a sedate waltz with some matron of the post, or select a rosebud girl for a solemn set of lancers quadrilles. Mrs. Fortescue still held the palm as the prettiest waltzer at the post, none the less gay for being dignified.
Major George was an Indian crony of Uncle Elliston's; considerably younger, however, than the latter, and, as the spinsters remarked sententiously, only sallow enough to be interesting, and only old enough to be sedate!
It puts me in mind of two proverbial sentences which are full of admirable meaning. What, pray, Miss, are they? I love to hear you talk, when you are so sedate as you seem now to be. The one is to the purpose we are speaking of: Poverty is the mother of health.
The other guest of the house was a sedate, long-bearded traveler for some Philadelphia house, and in the evening he and the landlord fell into a conversation upon what Socrates calls the disadvantage of the pursuit of wealth to the exclusion of all noble objects, and they let their fancy play about Vanderbilt, who was agreed to be the richest man in the world, or that ever lived.
She listened to her eager flow of unintelligible words, wondering whether she could ever teach her pupil with her grandmother's help if need should be to cultivate a more sedate and Greek demeanor. At this juncture Paula came down the path.
"Business, Dr. Kennon, is not the sole property of age." "Nor is a veterinary degree," Kennon replied. "True. But one thinks of a Betan as someone ancient and sedate." "Ours is an old planet but we still have new generations." "A fact most of us outsiders find hard to believe," Alexander said.
"Yes, in a way," said the other, sore to think the game had been lost. "She'd never make an actress, though. Just another chorus girl that's all." This little experience nearly destroyed her ambition to call upon the manager at the Chicago Opera House, but she decided to do so after a time. He was of a more sedate turn of mind.
'Well you struck me as being a little dowdy. 'Dowdy! I had a nice new frock on. I don't think I could have looked dowdy, and among the dreadful old rags that the girls wear here. 'It had nothing to do with the clothes you wore. It was a little quiet, sedate air. 'I wasn't in good spirits when I came down here. 'No, you weren't. I thought you might be a bore.
I had, occasion, in one of my visits to the depot, to repair to the tent of one of the embalmers. He was a sedate, grave person, and when I saw him, standing over the nude, hard corpse, he reminded me of the implacable vulture, looking into the eyes of Prometheus. His battery and tube were pulsing, like one's heart and lungs, and the subject was being drained at the neck.
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