They were dismayed at beholdingno guide of the kind, and thought there must be some prominent swelling of the earth, which hid the pole from their view.
I saw the daybreak; I was full of emotion in beholding the peace of Nature, and I realised the contrast between the pettiness of human violence and the majesty of the surroundings.
I have six-and-thirty years been in the service of Austria, unrewarded, and beholding the repeated and generous efforts I made effectually to serve that state, unnoticed.
The gracious monarch himself gave tokens of pleasure at beholding me thus surrounded.
Beholding him thus set forth and praised in a public print, he seemed suddenly to have been distantly removed from her, to have reacquired at a bound the dizzy importance he had possessed for her before she became his stenographer.
On beholding him, said the father: "Think not of me, my son.
Both schools of thought conceive of God as sitting upon a marble throne, eternally young, eternally beautiful, beholding with quiet indifference from afar how man, with infinite blunderings, sufferings and tears makes his way forward.
My father was seated in a remote corner, conversing with some person when I entered, and on beholding me, at once came forward and embraced me with every token of affection.
The Aga started back in amazement atbeholding such a display of beauty, and all his anger vanished like snow beneath a sunbeam.
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?
A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries announcing their coming.
If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
These eyes of mine look into the very eye that is even now beholding him; aye, and into the eye that is even now equally beholding the objects on the unknown, thither side of thee, thou sun!
Aylmer raised his eyes hastily, and at first reddened, then grew paler than ever, on beholding Georgiana.
This result was the making of his fortune; ever afterwards he was in the habit of giving very profitable audiences to all curious travellers who were desirous of beholding the man who had eaten the great navigator's great toe.
Then beholding Pierre ironed and helpless, Paul burst out in a hysterical laugh, which was followed by frantic appeals for protection against his father's imagined wrath.
Lifted thus above nine choirs of angels, she elicits vast admiration, and beholding from the height of heaven St. Thomas, who could not arrive in time to assist at her death and receive her last benediction, she throws him her girdle.
The Pointed Hearts (a tribe which shall ever be dear to me) came to meet us, and great was the joy on both sides, on beholding one another again.
In the evening, however, he assembled the people, and great was their astonishment on beholding the decorations of the chapel.
In a few years you will enjoy the glory and consolation of beholding through your means all the savages residing on the head waters of the Columbia, ranging themselves under the standard of the Cross.
On beholding the conflict we fancied that all the winds had been let loose from the four points of the compass.
They, in return, made me the fairest promises; and having expressed the pride they felt on beholding me in their country, took their leave.
After beholding the highest, there are only two things left us--sleep and music.
Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no means suffer?
The proudest of you all Have been beholding to him in his life; Yet none of you would once beg for his life.
They are wise, beholding What you think scorn to look on, the Courts bravery: Would you have run away so slily Lady, And not have seen me?
You are once more welcom, Your Master's a right honest man; and one I am much beholding to, and must very shortly Trouble his love again.
Acrasia: I am so beholding to you, your potion wrought exceedingly; the Senses were so mad: did not you see how they raged about the woods?
Marry, even the more joy on him, and he's one that I am very much beholding to: but here comes your daughter.
Master Churms, I am so exceedingly beholding to you, I cannot tell how I shall requite your kindness.
I tell thee, Anamnestes, thou hast not so much as a point, but thou art beholding to me for it.
As for the academy, it is beholding to me for adding the eighth province unto the noble Heptarchy of the liberal sciences.
Kate opened it and was greatly surprised at beholding her visitor, who seldom came there.
Mrs. Cameron’s first emotion, onbeholding Fanny and the flattering attentions she everywhere received, was one of intense mortification, to think she had not been first to notice and chaperone her.
On entering the room how surprised she was at beholding Frank Cameron.
The flush which dyed his brow on beholding his cousin's promised wife was evidence enough of this.
The interruption was indeed caused by Oswald, who had opened the glass-door leading from the terrace, and now, as he came in, appeared much surprised at beholding his aunt and cousin.
She advanced valiantly a few steps, then stopped on beholding another carriage drawn up just before her own.
Fancy his rapture on beholding this lovely spot, and these charming American faces!
It was what Isabel had said twelve years before, on first beholding the lake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beholding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
