sedately quotes

Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.27,'Good and Bad Children', stanza1.

I kissed her slender hand, She took the kiss sedately; Maud is not seventeen, But she is tall and stately.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.12, stanza 4, l.424^7.