And now thou knew'st her coming, it was time To get thee wings on, and devoutly climb Unto thy God; for marriage of all states Makes most unhappy, or most fortunates.
How far the temper of the nation and the state of parties might admit of such a coalition he could not decide; but the event, he said, was devoutly to be wished.
There was great occasion for his majesty's advice to the members of parliament, but they were powerless to effect that which he desired, and which was a "consummation devoutly to be wished" by every lover of good order.
But since it has been extracted, we may devoutly thank Almighty God, that it is now excluded from the hearts of men calling themselves Christians, and kept safely bottled up in their creeds and confessions.
I am not certain whether he would not be less indignant to be cruelly massacred by people in a violent transport of rage, than to be devoutly killed for conscience’ sake.
To you my soul Devoutly sighs, for virtue even now To meet the hard emprize that draws me on.
Devoutly as I may, I pray thee hold Converse with me: my will thou seest; and I, More speedily to hear thee, tell it not.
Its conservation is consequently devoutly to be desired.
Freke was a black sheep, and, as Throckmorton devoutly and thankfully remembered, the daughter of General and Mrs. Temple would not be likely to regard a divorced man as a single man.
During all this time Freke had not put in an appearance, for which Judith was devoutly thankful.
From the day of their marriage he had never questioned her decision upon any subject whatever, although an elaborate fiction of marital authority was maintained between them and devoutly believed in by both.
She saw it was some emblem and idol of their faith, devoutly cherished.
We may be sure that the story of Paul Bert's conversion will be devoutly believed by thousands of Christians, and will probably be worked up in pious tracts for the spiritual edification of superstitious sheep.
Beneath this illumination, let us walk the course of life, and at its close devoutly commend our beloved country, the common parent of us all, to the Divine Benignity.
I would have my children attend to doits and farthings as devoutly as the merest Dutchman upon earth, if such attention was necessary to support their independence.
Most devoutlydo we trust that both poets and poetasters will henceforth refrain from including Lucifer in their dramatis personæ.
I devoutly wished I had not said she was my niece.
I devoutly wished I might see his face when he read my letter.
She had never questioned what she devoutly held to be certain divinely-revealed truths.
He sang as if he had been a lay-vicar all his life, and when the Magnificat was ended, and Mr Sharnall could look through the curtains of the organ-loft, the organist saw him with a Bible devoutly following Mr Noot in the second lesson.
Though Mrs Westray senior poured out the vials of her wrath on Anastasia for having refused to become Mrs Westray junior, she was at heart devoutlyglad at the turn events had taken.
Oilier, she writes, devoutly wished she had read the agreement, as the clause ought to have been in it.
Mary, called the Less, occupied by nuns who serve devoutly the Virgin and her Son.
With the true zeal of an editor and a patriot, he devoutly justifies or excuses the characters of his countrymen.
Astonished by this marvellous clemency, the barons bowed their heads; and while they devoutly repeated the oath of allegiance, might whisper a secret, and more sincere, assurance of revenge.
By the gift of the pope, they have acquired the privilege of choosing the Roman emperor; [24] nor is any people more devoutly attached to the faith and obedience of the Latin patriarch.
At times these characters appear rather to belong to that sixteenth century which Beyle studied so devoutly than to the nineteenth.
He remembered the shrine inside the cabin, the sudden appearance of the jester's torch through the mists of night, and longed most devoutly to be back at work on the good brown fields.
The year following, and the day that the father helddevoutly the feast of S.
We'll let him pass, if pass he means, and I hopedevoutly that he does.
Robert hoped most devoutly that they would soon come within the region of friends.
I'm devoutly glad the rocks catch what is intended for us," said Grosvenor, feeling intense relief.
It's very good of you to bother," said Jan, devoutly wishing he would not.
The aged, weakened by infirmity, may be incapable of reciting long prayers, but they will always have sufficient strength to repeat devoutly the Ave Maria.
As the Saint could not excuse himself, he devoutly intoned the Salve with his powerful voice, and was accompanied by all the Monks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devoutly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: earnestly; fervently; fervidly; heartily; intensely; intently; passionately; seriously
