But now she was ashamed of her inability to profess Christ.
Did I profess to teach them the conduct befitting ladies?
She esteemed him hideously plain, and used to profess herself frightened almost into hysterics at the sound of his step or voice.
When an article disappeared whose value rendered restitution necessary, she would profess to think that Désirée had taken it away in play, and beg her to restore it.
" "Well, I don't profess to understand it yet.
" "Yes, it becomes you to profess affection for your father, when you have despised his strongest feelings.
" "Farebrother says, he doesn't believe Brooke would get elected if the opportunity came: the very men who profess to be for him would bring another member out of the bag at the right moment.
He does not profess to have more than second-hand knowledge there.
" "I will not profess bravery," said Lydgate, smiling, "but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting, and I should not care for my profession, if I did not believe that better methods were to be found and enforced there as well as everywhere else.
"I don't profess to understand every young lady's taste.
And, of course, there is the way all the young, scruffy entrepreneurs on "Silicon Valley" profess to be in business to "make the world a better place" rather than get rich.
As some strict down-looked men pretend to fast, Who yet in closets eat; So lovers who profess they spirits taste, Feed yet on grosser meet; I know they boast they souls to souls convey, Howe'er they meet, the body is the way.
History and music professors can expect to earn less than accounting profess, ors.
If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979 The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
