All 10 Uses of
sedate
in
Gone with the Wind
- The more sedate and older sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.†
Chpt 1.1
- Scarlett knew these hurried preenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had ridden sedately home from a call on a neighbor.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- "You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness.†
Chpt 1.5
- Through the open French windows, she caught glimpses of the older women seated in the drawing room, sedate in dark silks as they sat fanning themselves and talking of babies and sicknesses and who had married whom and why.†
Chpt 1.6
- But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.†
Chpt 1.6
- Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.†
Chpt 1.7
- Everyone edged forward, in anticipation, trying to imagine what the sedate doctor could propose that would be shocking.†
Chpt 2.9
- The shiny carriages of Yankee officers' wives and newly rich Carpetbaggers splashed mud on the dilapidated buggies of the townspeople, and gaudy new homes of wealthy strangers crowded in among the sedate dwellings of older citizens.†
Chpt 4.37
- Somehow this handsome, sedately dressed woman sitting in the darkness of the carriage didn't look and talk as she imagined a bad woman, the Madam of a House, should look and talk.†
Chpt 4.46
Definitions:
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(sedate as in: she is sedate) calm -- possibly also dignified
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(sedate as in: sedate her) make calm or drowsy by giving a drug