Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres?
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
For four years he saw her only in the summers, and each year she had seemed taller, statelier, further from him.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
He was reconciled with himself, and walked on to the Future with a bolder step and a statelier crest.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton