"Your tears will not restore your son to you," sententiously observed Olivier.
"The King, Monsieur, never dies," said Cadoux sententiously.
"Whatever his Lordship agrees to," the gardener replied, sententiously.
"Coffee is better without sugar," said Charles-Norton, sententiously.
"Well, take care you don't wait too long," said Hoare, sententiously.
"Read it, and you 'll know all," said the other, sententiously.
“Nothing but Indians and buffalo,” said Younkins, sententiously.
"The downfall of an enemy is the consolation of the unfortunate," said Babalatchi, sententiously.
"A man always wants money, sir," said M'Caskey, sententiously.
"He was wise when he knew it," said she, sententiously, and continued her work.
mid-15c., "full of meaning," from Middle French sententieux, from Latin sententiosus "full of meaning, pithy," from sententia "thought; expression of a thought" (see sentence (n.)). Meaning "addicted to pompous moralizing" first recorded 1590s. Related: Sententiously; sententiousness.
