What is "sedately"

Usage examples of "sedately".

Jonathan was walking sedately to the post-office, holding his dripping umbrella at a wonderful slant of exactness, without regard to the wind, thereby getting the soft drive of the rain full in his face, which became, as it were, bedewed with tears, entirely outside any cause of his own emotions.

Ole Golly said this steadily and sedately, then leaned back in her chair with a satisfied look at Sport.

The see-saw bridged the gap between two types of space, and La Cucaracha yawed wildly down it, an indignity for an old lady who, at her age, should ride sedately through free void-but she was a hyper ship first and a lady second.

Amin Lim leading, weeping silently, continued sedately along the path.

He spun round nervily to find himself confronted by a venerable and wicked-looking jackdaw, who balanced himself sedately on the high back of a chair and regarded the visitor, his head cocked on one side.

Juliette was left with nothing to do but gather up the reins and urge Oriflamme sedately from the stableyard.

Scores of Louis XIIIs, XIVs, XVs, and XVIs were dancing sedately with Annes of Austria and Marie Antoinettes to the strains of rhumba and cha-cha.

Holding her head high, squeezing her gardenia bouquet, she walked sedately down the aisle, refusing to glance tother side, refusing to admit that she felt queasy.

We would drive to the bottling plant, we would not break in, there would be plentiful evidence of legal prosperity and we would drive sedately home.

Hundreds of ships had blown their overdrive coils and rewound them in space and gone sedately on about their lawful occasions.

But in a moment Alfred reappeared, stepping smartly, followed by Julie dressed sedately in blue gingham.

Their speed came down, and soon they were cruising along sedately with the beakhead barely pitching.

Outside, Dolley tripped along the path sedately until she reached the woods, afraid he might be watching.

McCoy was sitting up in the center seat, gazing at the sedately turning shape of Flyspeck underneath them.

The hobbies stood in a semicircle about him, looking on and rocking most sedately and while they had no expression on their carven faces, I thought that I detected in them a sense of satisfaction at having made so good a haul.