Katanji tore his eyes away from stately tall ships, the graceful galleys, the scurrying small craft.

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand.

He would come back entranced to his own home: 'from the window, right across the housetops, I could see the masts and sprays of tall stately ships.

They part before her, like waves before the prow of a stately ship.

A few days have elapsed, and a stately ship is out at sea, spreading its white wings to the favouring wind.

Her husband holds her to his heart, and they are very quiet, and the stately ship goes on serenely.

Hip hotel references are even finding their way into stately and more conservative ships like Cunard's Queen Mary 2.

This 'Oceana' is a stately big ship, luxuriously appointed.

It soon became apparent that the stately old ship was in a poor condition.

And the tall clouds sail over Malmaison like a procession of stately ships bound for the moon.