We have seen how impersonal is his language, the principal medium of communication between one soul and another; how impersonal are the communings of his soul with itself.
The first, perhaps, is more needed in our communings with ourselves, the second in our commerce with others.
Represents the Congregation at communings at Preston, 167.
In sequel of communings such as these Held with himself, Krishna recalled the thought Of the rejected proffer made him late By Paul, of Mary's story of the Christ.
Philip Oldroyd's communings were checked by some very boggy patches, which had to be leaped and skirted, and otherwise avoided; but as soon as he was once more upon firm ground, he resumed where he had left off.
There came no mental answer to this self-put question, and the communings were stopped by Glynne herself, who went on thoughtfully and in the most matter-of-fact way.
They sought access to the Great Spirit, our God as well as theirs, through communings with their ancestral and other spirits.
The justness of this theory of her conduct is demonstrated by the self-communings in "Thraliana;" and she misunderstood them as much as they misunderstood her.
Mother of angels, softly tread, Perchance to thee 'tis given, To hold communings with the dead, Who live and reign in heaven.
His prayers made a deep impression; they were like the communings of a child with his father.
It does not hide the communings of his heart with his heavenly Father.
The striking of a clock roused Dexter from his communingswith his pets, and hastily restoring them to their various habitations, he resumed his jacket, and after a quick glance round descended the steps.
No one told Dexter all this; he learned it in his solitary communings with the animal world.
The twilight went out into thick darkness, leaving the mother and child to their happy communings in the boudoir, amid the blest associations of a cherished past.
Either his early training, his long isolation from ecclesiastical influence, or his communings with Nature had broadened his horizon and spiritualized his beliefs.
Never in those communings with his quiet wisdom beneath the fading crimson of the Indian sunsets had she felt more strongly than now the immortal kinship between them, the reality of their spiritual alliance.
He did full justice to his mother's shrewd observation, and believed that her letter was intended to convey more than appeared on the surface, and his self-communings in reference thereto were not cheerful.
She was glad that she could be much alone with the boy, and held many and sweet communings with that soul she had discovered in his eyes.
Holy thoughts, comfortable meditations, devout longings, and gracious communings will be off and gone if we sluggishly allow the stone wall to get out of repair.
And what was the effect upon me of these communings with the ancestors whose superstitions I have, perhaps, been throughout this narrative treating in a spirit that hardly becomes their descendant?
All questions of internal experience, all delicate shadings of the spiritual history, with which his pastoral communings in his flock made him conversant, he brought to her to be resolved with the purest simplicity of trust.
He recorded honestly in his diary what marvellous freshness of spirit the Lord had given him, and how he seemed to be uplifted in his communings with heaven, without once thinking from the robes of what angel this sweetness had exhaled.
Several men of this class were under the authority of the Inchrule, and their communings were instructive.
It consists in the veritable contents of his private note-books, containing his communings with his own heart and his imagination.
Strange communings had passed within the walls--sordid, yet bitter thoughts, the crushing of all kindly yearnings toward a better state of mind.
Among some communings with herself, written in 1867, there is this entry: "Easter Sunday.
She lived with a pen or pencil ever at her side; and reams of her paper are covered with confessions, self-examinations, communings with God.
The song was occasionally intermitted to give room to certain self-communings which the pastime suggested.
But Henry Martyn worked for his generation and all future ages as well as wrote, so that they who delight in his mystic communings are constrained to follow him in his self-sacrificing service.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
