Both Uses

sage
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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His notable little wife ... had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
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sagely = wisely
When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old Van Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.†

Definitions:

(1) (sage as in: sage advice)
profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
(2) (sage as in: the growing sage)
a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush

or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)