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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Stately

Stately as a column.
—Æschylus

Stately as a Roman legion.
—Anonymous

Stately as an oak.
—Anonymous

Stately as a steeple.
—Anonymous

Tall and stately as a pine.
—Anonymous

Stately as a forest monarch.
—Anonymous

Stately and pure as the swan on the lake.
—Sir Samuel Ferguson

Stately as a deer with antlers.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Stately as a palm-tree standing before the moon.
—George Meredith

Stately as a ship under full sail.
—Owen Meredith

Stately like the stars.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Stately as a queen.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Stately as a King.
—Walter Thornbury