He was a grown man, neither wise nor clever; but with a man's sedateness of spirit and a man's hopes.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"Father says," Deirdre said, a quaint air of sedateness settling down on her, "that he's 'shamed to send me without stockings or a wedding garment, Mrs. Cameron.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
"I aims to be," he asserted stoutly, "but it wouldn't skeercely be charitable to be the cause of your breakin' an arm or"-he paused an instant before adding with sedateness-"or a limb."
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck