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It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAJESTIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
majestic
 a.  stately; royal; relating to a monarch
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
7  "Woman, I could well-nigh pity thee," said Roger Chillingworth, unable to restrain a thrill of admiration too, for there was a quality almost majestic in the despair which she expressed.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
8  And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
9  Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
10  "I will not be interfered with by Jane," said Mrs. Pocket, with a majestic glance at that innocent little offender.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
11  Matvy Ilyitch approached her with a majestic air and ingratiating speeches.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Matvy Ilyitch Kolyazin, happening to be in temporary opposition, paid him a majestic visit; while the natives, with whom, however, he is very little seen, positively grovel before him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
14  It shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face of the majestic Emperor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
15  At the Olmutz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed brighter and more energetic.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree.
2  From majestic mountains and valleys of GREen to crystal clear waters so blue, this wish is coming to you.
3  The great ship looked majestic in her new colours.
4  The Rockies are majestic in size.
5  And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon the entire house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur.
6  And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon all the house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur -- for he was "showing off," too.