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Example sentences for "admires"

Lexicographically close words:
admirations; admire; admired; admirer; admirers; admiring; admiringly; admissibility; admissible; admission
  1. Now, if you really want to know about the lace, I will tell you that I found it perfectly magnificent, and that every one who sees it admires it prodigiously.

  2. The President admires Emerson's poems, and also Longfellow and Sienkiewicz.

  3. She knows Pope and Crabbe by heart, admires Shenstone, and tells me which scenes are considered finest in this or that of Scott's novels.

  4. Next to Moscow, he admires the national songs of Scotland, a great many of which Damrosch played to him on a magnificent Steinway grand.

  5. For example, I am now sitting here, and everyone admires my sacrifice.

  6. The emperor of China has the curiosity to read this book of Cicero; the interpreters translate it; and in consequence he admires at once the book and the Roman Republic.

  7. The man of taste has other eyes, other ears, and another tact from the uncultivated man; he is displeased with the poor draperies of Raphael, but he admires the noble purity of his conception.

  8. He admires indeed the antique ideal of self-contained strength and homely virtue.

  9. But what Pliny admires in him is not so much his philosophy, as his grave ornate style, his pure character, which showed none of that harsh and ostentatious severity which was then so common in his class.

  10. He is the apostle of Greek culture, yet he admires Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics.

  11. I am not a devout woman, my sublime beloved, I am only the woman who loves and admires and reverences you.

  12. The roses he thought faded and scattered, she admires in full bloom; she can still breathe their perfume.

  13. The same thing is true of the little girl and what she admires and aspires to.

  14. He admires these qualities in other boys; a feeling of his inner nature, in accord with his conscience, tells him he would like to be that kind of a boy, himself.

  15. This looks sweeping, but on reference to his epigrammatic epitaphs, one finds that he admires the Old "Gang" and deplores the New.

  16. That is from Africa, where he rides through marshes swarming with cruel life and admires the sickly beauty of the fever tree, but always as an alien.

  17. They say Madame Critois never speaks; so I suppose she admires his conversation too much to interrupt it.

  18. Jean always admires what my husband does," observed Margot to her acquaintance Jacques.

  19. You have already wearied Fortune so, She cannot farther be your friend or foe; But sits all breathless, and admires to feel A fate so weighty, that it stops our wheel.

  20. What sport it is to see an old country justice, with his eager chaplain at his elbow, putting his barnacles on his nose; bless us, how he gapes and admires Nat.

  21. Newcome; "why am I blind to the beauties which he admires so much--and am I unable to comprehend what he evidently understands at his young age?

  22. As long as I was in any doubt about this young man, I gave the criminal the benefit of it, as a man who admires our glorious constitution should do, and kept my own counsel, sir.

  23. She thinks she was attached to Clive formerly, and now she admires him, and is dreadfully afraid of him.

  24. Now Harriet admires everything that Kew says, and that makes her a great deal happier at being with him.

  25. If his wife has a Greek nose, he discovers afterward that what he really admires is pugs.

  26. Who admires not Regio-Montanus his Fly beyond his Eagle, or wonders not more at the operation of two Souls in those little Bodies, than but one in the Trunk of a Cedar?

  27. He admires Manchester for "its admirable tramway, street police, and other traffic arrangements," but there is an amari aliquid in the shape of the Manchester street Arab.

  28. CHLOE, of every coxcomb jealous, Admires how girls can talk with fellows.

  29. I often wonder what has become of those vast in-folios, and if any one ever opens them now and admires as we did the glowing colored plates in which the old ornithologist took such pride.

  30. I wish Rowland Prothero lived at the farm; he was so obliging and pleasant; even Lady Mary Nugent admires him.

  31. He is a man that admires beauty and talent, wherever it is to be found.

  32. All the qualities she most admires she finds in him.

  33. The high-school girl needs from the earnest lips of a woman she admires the weekly word of warning, and the oft-repeated plea to keep herself pure and fine.

  34. She will instil into it all those traits of character and qualities that Braine loves and admires most, if she can.

  35. She says with a little deprecation in her tone, and a little entreaty in her eyes; "He only admires me as he does other nice looking women, Ed.

  36. Monsieur le Capitaine, he with the one arm, who admires Mademoiselle.

  37. These things he admires on the shield of Vulcan, his mother's gift, and rejoicing in the portraiture of unknown history, lifts on his shoulder the destined glories of his children.

  38. Aeneas admires and turns his eyes lightly round about, pleased with the country; and gladly on spot after spot inquires and hears of the memorials of earlier men.


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