Permanent rebellion, the disorder of a life without some loving reverent resolve, was not possible to her; but she was now in an interval when the very force of her nature heightened its confusion.
There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire.
Anne took the dress and looked at it in reverent silence.
Anne walked through it on her way to school with reverent steps and worshiping eyes, as if she trod on holy ground.
"Why, I felt just as reverent as could be.
If we wish to be friends we must seek them out and win them by frequent, reverent visits at all hours; by morning, by noon, and by night; and at all seasons, in spring, in summer, in autumn, in winter.
Then quite a group of boys and girls—playmates of Tom's and Joe's—came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!
Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe?
Be reverent before each dawning day.
" "These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression.
Be reverent before each dawning day.
Walking the tea-horse ancient road might allow one to see reverent pilgrims heading to holy city Lhasa.
Then he raised his bow to quiet the crowd and said , not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone, "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made.
