With wisdom

Usage examples of sagely.

Afterwards, Evermore approached Okoye and asked her if what the boy had said was true and, on being told that it was, nodded sagely.

The rishi nodded sagely, bowing his head and folding his hands to the seer.

I sagely pointed west because the western islands, Takel and Alisalia, seemed like golden mountains of snow and I felt an urge to be closer to them.

Tall and spare, with a narrow, lined face and silvery hair brushed severely back into a tight knot at her nape, Twindle nodded at the pair sagely.

John, people shook their heads sagely and declared that they had known all along that Bedaux was engaged in espionage.

There were no kickshaws, by which term Mr Templecombe scornfully described fondues and trifles and jellies, opining sagely that Philip had no greater liking for them than he had himself.

The Muong Song, in their ocean fastness, nodded sagely about the foolishness of the lowland round-eyes and continued searching for lucrative ways to transport their drugs off-planet.

Warden, who had been praying fervently some office or other would find some outfit or other overstrength or understrength, looked up at Mazzioli sagely when he found it.

That is my last real memory of Al Davis: It was getting dark in Oakland, the rest of the team had already gone into the showers, the coach was inside speaking sagely with a gaggle of local sportswriters, somewhere beyond the field-fence a big jet was cranking up its afterburners on the airport runway.

It begins sufficiently well, but the author has hardly enunciated his preliminary apophthegms, when he conducts into an obscurity where we can hardly grope our way, and when we emerge from that, it is to be bewildered by his gorgeous but unsubstantial pictures of sagely perfection.

Through these halls that people stepped Who through darkling centuries Held the keys Of all wisdom, truth, and art, In a Paradise apart, Lapped in ease, Sagely pondering deathless themes, While, befooled with monkish dreams, Europe slept.

The greatest wonder of all, however, was nothing else than a Freemason's apron, which, as the curator very sagely declared, proved the existence of such an order, whatever some might say.

Norfolk nodded sagely in approval of this scholarly reticence -- that we are apt to neglect Hamlet's declaration -- I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room -- until after the next scene when Hamlet appears, declaring -- Safely stowed.

Marrying a man, or a woman either,' Miss Barrace sagely went on, 'is never the wonder, for any Jack and Jill can bring that off.

As they came up the lift, both the young "men" were chattering away at high speed, with Alex in the middle, nodding sagely from time to time and clearly not catching more than half of what they said.