A boy's sheepishness is by no means a sign of overmastering reverence; and while you are making encouraging advances to him under the idea that he is overwhelmed by a sense of your age and wisdom, ten to one he is thinking you extremely queer.
Those words of Lydgate's were like a sad milestone marking how far he had travelled from his old dreamland, in which Rosamond Vincy appeared to be that perfect piece of womanhood who would reverence her husband's mind after the fashion of an accomplished mermaid, using her comb and looking-glass and singing her song for the relaxation of his adored wisdom alone.
" Caleb was very fond of music, and when he could afford it went to hear an oratorio that came within his reach, returning from it with a profound reverence for this mighty structure of tones, which made him sit meditatively, looking on the floor and throwing much unutterable language into his outstretched hands.
Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing fo
Now she would be able to devote herself to large yet definite duties; now she would be allowed to live continually in the light of a mind that she could reverence.
He had that old-fashioned chivalrous reverence for women, that—Eureka!
So these were the people she had always held in reverence and fear.
Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
He would rather become a traveling physician for ordinary people, who in turn held him in great reverence.
Reverence for the beauty an preciousness of the earth, and a sense of responsibility to do what I can to make it a habitation of health and plenty for all men.
The menu of Shanghai's Hakkasan restaurant boasts a strong Chinese identity and a reverence for local ingredients.
Still, others argue that reverence for the fourth finger began as an early Christian ritual.
Still, others argue that reverence for the fourth finger began as an early Christian ritual.
She said: 'I felt good about myself and felt people treated me with more reverence and smiled at me more.
In ancient times,when people practised divination,prayed for rainfall,or worshipped deities and ghosts,wine was often used to show reverence.
"I have endeavoured to proceed with a scholar's reverence for antiquity,and a grammarian's regard to the genius of our tongue,"he wrote.
" Donor choices reflect in large part a traditional reverence for education and the fact that top universities such as Peking or Tsinghua are trying to mimic their US counterparts in tapping graduates' largesse.
-Laurent-du-Maroni, a small border town in northwest French Guiana so that she could visit the ruins of a French prison colony — because Genet had once written about the place with reverence, and she wanted to retrieve some stones from the site and deliver them to him.
We treat the large states with reverence and courtesy, and the small states with respect and care.
We treat the large states with reverence and courtesy, and the small states with respect and care.