Example Sentences

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Here ceremonial might be viewed in its finest flower, and we conducted ourselves, like Queen Elizabeth when she trod the measure, 'high and disposedly.'

From The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth

It had cost Mr. McEachern some pains to learn this lesson, but he had done it; and he proceeded on the present occasion to conduct himself high and disposedly, according to instructions from headquarters.

From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Very disposedly we paraded the length of the walk and at her request backed again.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

Among them sport Ares, and the keen-eyed Bane of Argos, while Phœbus Apollo steps high and disposedly, playing the lyre, and the light issues round him from twinkling feet and fair-woven raiment. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

I answered, the queen danced not so high or disposedly as she did.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy