He bumped into trees and stumbled over logs in a way that to say the least was not at all dignified.
Sober, and especially dignified, wearing a rusty black frock coat which he never put on any other day of the week.
I am going to try not to fight with Ilse any more because I don't think it is dignified, although quite interesting.
But Emily was too much at home with words to be floored so easily; she grew angry too, but in the cool, dignified, Murray way which was more exasperating than violence.
I don't think I'd like Aunt Elizabeth's, but He is a dignified God at least, and Ellen's isn't.
The memory of old days had been evoked, and the daily life of a pious and venerated father called to mind; the Sawyer name had been publicly dignified and praised; Rebecca had comported herself as the granddaughter of Deacon Israel Sawyer should, and showed conclusively that she was not "all Randall," as had been supposed.
Her aunt Miranda saw no wisdom in cultivating such a talent, and could not conceive that any money could ever be earned by its exercise, "Hand painted pictures" were held in little esteem in Riverboro, where the cheerful chromo or the dignified steel engraving were respected and valued.
He fell right over on his back, which wasn't at all dignified, and made Buster Bear laugh.
The venerable but not dignified town lay below them, a huddled medley of brown brick under a thick black cloud of smoke.
Mynors told her all he knew; how Willie had discovered his father with his toes actually touching the floor, leaning slightly forward, quite dead; how he had then cut the rope and fetched Mynors, who went with him to the police-station; how they had tied up the head of the corpse, and then waited till night to wheel the body on a hand-cart from Edward Street to the mortuary chamber at the police-station; how the police had telephoned to the coroner, and settled at once that the inquest should be
Its furniture included a dresser of the simple and dignified kind which is now assiduously collected by amateurs of old oak.
Looking very calm, very dignified, with his legs in the air, came Eeyore from beneath the bridge.
How often has she taunted me with lack of dignified reserve and needful caution!
Not that true contentment dignified this infatuated resignation: my work had neither charm for my taste, nor hold on my interest; but it seemed to me a great thing to be without heavy anxiety, and relieved from intimate trial: the negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know.
She was certainly very tall and dignified and imposing—altogether a great-aunt to be respected.
She was afraid that the dignified Miss Cuthbert would think Leslie quite terrible.
No doubt I shall be dignified after a time.
And nobody but Miss Cornelia could have looked dignified and suitably garbed in it.
A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness, though too stern for grace.
The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that s
