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  • Also 'Sedate' which means composed, free from agitation or hurry.

    Women at Home 2007

  • "Sedate," Reed said, standing aside to let the H'ratoi pass.

    Rosetta Stern, Dave 2006

  • Sedate enthusiasm is the proper role for a proper San Franciscan.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • Sedate and solemn were the score of rubbers in which Mr. Pickwick and the old lady played together; uproarious was the mirth of the round table.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are seen as insensitive in South Africa.", this "Strap Him Down and Sedate Him - Fast

    George Bush is a moron Not a sheep 2007

  • With Mad Howard locked in Tom Harkin's spare bedroom and Nice Howard busy at his son's hockey practice, Joe Trippi rolled out his latest product upgrade, Dean 3.0, which is being marketed as Sedate Howard.

    Archive 2004-01-01 2004

  • With Mad Howard locked in Tom Harkin's spare bedroom and Nice Howard busy at his son's hockey practice, Joe Trippi rolled out his latest product upgrade, Dean 3.0, which is being marketed as Sedate Howard.

    Time to celebrate! 2004

  • Although in the unpublished version of Narrative Stedman privately fears that his observations "will be highly censured by the Sedate European Matrons" (1790; 47), he nevertheless candidly remarks, in a published passage worth quoting at length, that in colonial Surinam most European men acquire female slave-mistresses.

    Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

  • Sedate the brain, settle the stomach, mellow the nerves.

    Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

  • The Count him is a most agreable Man, Sedate, polite, affible with a dignity that is lost in Ease yet his brow at times would be overclouded with cares and anxieties so like a dear absent Friends

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 October 1778, draft 1973

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