Both Uses of
sedate
in
Bleak House
- By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars (there, not without a glance at Hanging-Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far-famed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he,…†
Chpt 25-27
- He is sedately satisfied.†
Chpt 40-42 *
Definition:
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(sedate as in: she is sedate) calm -- possibly also dignified