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Example sentences for "grace"

Lexicographically close words:
grabber; grabbers; grabbing; grabe; grabs; graced; graceful; gracefull; gracefully; gracefulness
  1. This later version contains many spirited lines, but lacks the grace of the original.

  2. And he to me: "The honourable name, That sounds of them above there in thy life, Wins grace in Heaven, that so advances them.

  3. Still in the world can he restore thy fame; Because he lives, and still expects long life, If to itself Grace call him not untimely.

  4. Something there was of ultimate grace in the salutation, which made remembrance still more clear, and sent a pang of resentment through many of those present that this perfection should no longer be public property.

  5. Even if nothing else came of the King's grace save the permission to challenge the world on his behalf from her secluded silence, that in itself was gain.

  6. Sure, my father, the grace of God must work in the end--and Akbar is so close to the Kingdom!

  7. Twould but make him and his advice grow in grace with my father, as do all folk who die in sanctity.

  8. So the King hath his own again, and Salim hath more grace than the scapegrace deserves.

  9. But no grace descended on her soul,--no warm ray unlocked the ice of the well.

  10. Oh, ‘with all the ineffable grace of a derrick!

  11. Uncle Israel folded his big, bony hands on the edge of the red cloth, bent his head, and said grace in his rumbling voice.

  12. One cannot with grace explain being routed by a ghost.

  13. And Harkness found time in the instant of her coming to admire her grace of movement, and the carriage that was almost stately.

  14. So he made use of the money collected during the days of grace to repay any sums he had borrowed from the public cash during the preceding month.

  15. The sergeant was a Londoner, and knew more about the private habits of his Grace than I did.

  16. Then I took my brush; the pale spring beauties grew beneath its touch, and lay with careless grace on the soft, damp moss.

  17. He seems to have understood so well the power of his mind, that he never ventured beyond his depth, but sustained himself through all his years of authorship with the same grace and elegance.

  18. And the first prayer he ever learned comes to his mind with a grace and a meaning and a power that he never felt before.

  19. This custom, she said, we should have to observe, until we received my first wife's consent to our marriage, which would give my second the right to repeat the Bazawa grace before food.

  20. Not infrequently it happened that his grace and myself would be the only two left at the table--we being able to stand more than the others.

  21. His grace did not stir; his snores continued with unabated vigor.

  22. Although her grace took no further notice of me, I saw my way clear for the future.

  23. This document dispatched, I believed the question of the prohibitory sword between me and Zeib Alnissa settled; but I was mistaken; she did not repeat Bazawa's grace at supper.

  24. It might come to pass, however, that the obsequies of his grace might precede those of the duchess.

  25. I had no difficulty drinking his grace under the table; and from that hour I became an important member of his household.

  26. An adherent of the Siva faith may even take a foreigner to wife; he may eat at the same table with his wife, or wives, after the grace before food, prescribed by the Prophet Bazawa, has been repeated.

  27. However, I contented myself with giving you a sound rap on the head and straightway communicated to his grace what you had confessed.

  28. Her grace continued to treat me with extreme reserve; she never lifted her eyes to mine when she spoke to me, but always kept them lowered, as if she were addressing her remarks to my boots.

  29. That all this was unknown to his grace was certain, else the reception accorded to me, whom he believed to be his former boon companion, would not have been so cordial.

  30. I'm not much good at making apologies," he began, with rather less grace than becomes an apologist; but it was more than enough for me from Bob.

  31. Now, young men about town, on two walking-sticks, in the year of grace 1900, meant only one thing.

  32. It was after this that policies and wagers were carried on to such an incredible degree in the trial of her Grace of Kingston.

  33. Upon this foot Mr. Milton, to grace his Poem, and give room for his Towring Fancy, has gone a length beyond all that ever went before him, since Ovid in his Metamorphosis.

  34. However hard you may take my denial, be it known to you, if the father and mother whom I loved and honoured were alive and made such requests, I should have the grace to say nay.

  35. Twm’s attention was almost entirely taken up with the sweet and unaffected grace of the lady; but we must be impartial and take some notice of her husband.

  36. It is the seal of the diviner Eden grace which only comes with the after Eden pain.

  37. Her lithe grace never showed to more advantage.

  38. As for Jess, she did not even colour; she simply withdrew with the quickness and feline grace which were characteristic of her, without a flush or a tremor.

  39. I have indeed served the Marrow kirk in her true and only protesting section for twenty-five years; but I am only kept in my position by the good grace of two men--of your father and of Walter Skirving.

  40. All the figures are in the Venetian costume; the colouring is splendid, and the grace and harmony of the whole composition is even the more enchanting from the naïveté of the conception.

  41. His pictures occasionally show dignity of composition in combination with grace and daintiness; but he could be guilty of exaggerated vehemence of expression.

  42. Watteau's gifts were his grace and brilliance on a small scale.

  43. Among the companions of Proserpine the figure of Diana is conspicuous for grace and beauty.

  44. Rubens was famous for the loveliness and grace of his paintings of children.

  45. But we must not fall into the grave mistake of imagining that there was any want of vigour and variety in Raphael's grace and tenderness, or that he could not in his greatest works rise into a grandeur in keeping with his subject.

  46. In the series of the Life of the Virgin there is a 'Repose in Egypt,' which has a naïve homeliness in its grace and serenity.

  47. The Madonna turns her back to Christ, and bends her head over her shoulder to receive the crown, the arms being folded with studied grace over the bosom.

  48. I do not care for grace in man, woman, or animal, which is obtained (as in the old German painters) at the expense of honest flesh and blood.

  49. Winnebago, who, seeing that some grace was to be allowed him, burst into the argument that multitudes of his people have used before and since.

  50. He seemed to be about eighteen or twenty years of age, and was the picture of manly grace and beauty.

  51. I can do them little good, I fear, but the grace of God can do all.

  52. I confidently relied on the goodness of my Creator” (Study of Maria Edgeworth, by Grace A.

  53. Surrounded by aged politicians, statesmen, and soldiers, she presides over them all with the grace and dignity associated with a complete absence of affectation and self-consciousness.

  54. There are some people who appear to grow very fast, but they have water on the brain, and are out of due proportion; but he who truly grows in grace does not say, "Dear me!

  55. When Paul spoke or wrote to the churches in his epistles he employed few parables, because he addressed those who were advanced in grace and willing to learn.

  56. To my mind, the two facts are perfectly reconcilable; and so is it, I believe, with some of the doctrines of grace that perplex certain people.

  57. I believe that growth in grace is very much after the same fashion.

  58. This would show that the grace and goodness of God do not lead his children to licentiousness; but, on the contrary, they restrain them from sin.

  59. Certainly a gracious discourse is none the better for being bereft of every grace of language.

  60. You cannot do without the grace of God when you come to die.

  61. Also we must, as I have said before, allow that man in that stage must have had the same sort of grace and perfection of form and movement as we admire in the (wild) animals now.

  62. THAT birth certainly was sleep and a forgetting; the grace and intuition and instinctive perfection of the animals was lost.

  63. But surely there is enough good sense and appreciation of grace and fitness in the average human mind for it to be able to liberate the body from senseless concealment, and give it its due expression.

  64. I have a wrist is smooth and brown, I have a shoulder smooth and white, I have my grace in any gown By sun or moon or candle-light.

  65. He drew the chariot where Briscambril sat arrayed as a king, and making him hold a box of diamonds in his hand, he presented it with a becoming grace to the princess.

  66. The queen saluted the people with the utmost grace and condescension, which caused such immoderate joy, that she was almost stifled by the pressure of the crowd: but the guards gently kept them at a distance, and the procession passed on.

  67. Then Little Two Eyes said the shortest grace that she knew, "Lord God, be our guest at all times.

  68. And those two counties I will undertake Your Grace shall well and quietly enjoy.

  69. We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.

  70. Cousin of York, we institute your Grace To be our Regent in these parts of France.

  71. What answer makes your Grace unto my suit?

  72. Your Grace may starve, perhaps, before that time.

  73. And York as fast upon your Grace exclaims, Swearing that you withhold his levied host, Collected for this expedition.

  74. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship; Not whom we will, but whom his Grace affects, Must be companion of his nuptial bed.

  75. Upon the last question, the opinion of his Grace was satisfactory.

  76. A mixture of majesty and sweetness diffused itself in her looks, and her feebleness added to that soft and feminine grace which attracts the sympathy, and engages the protection of every humane beholder.

  77. Such as you describe this happy fair, was once my Serafina, rich in every grace of mind and body which nature could bestow.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; absolution; acknowledgment; address; adorn; agape; altruism; amnesty; appeal; arabesque; array; artfulness; artistry; beads; beatification; beatitude; beautify; become; bedeck; benediction; benefaction; beneficence; benefit; benevolence; benignity; blazon; bless; blessing; bloom; boon; bravura; breeding; brilliance; cadence; cadenza; capability; capacity; censor; charity; charm; chastity; clarity; class; clemency; cleverness; cogency; cognizance; collect; color; coloratura; comeliness; command; communion; compassion; competence; condolence; conscience; consecration; contemplation; control; coordination; courtesy; craft; craftsmanship; credit; cultivation; culture; cunning; daintiness; deck; decorate; dedication; deftness; delicacy; desert; devotion; devotions; dexterity; dignify; dignity; diplomacy; directness; discrimination; distinction; distinguish; dizen; dress; ease; efficiency; elegance; embellish; embellishment; emblazon; embroider; enchantment; enrich; entreaty; exaltation; excellence; exculpation; excuse; exemption; exoneration; expedience; expertise; facility; fairness; favor; feeling; felicity; finesse; finish; flight; flourish; flow; fluency; forbearance; forgiveness; furbish; garnish; generosity; giving; glamour; glorification; glow; goodness; goodwill; grace; grip; harmony; healthiness; honor; horsemanship; humanitarianism; humanity; hymn; immunity; incidental; indemnity; ingenuity; intercession; invocation; justification; kindness; leniency; litany; love; loveliness; lucidity; luxury; manna; marksmanship; mastership; mastery; meditation; mercy; merit; mitigation; naturalness; neatness; nicety; obligation; office; order; orison; ornament; paean; paint; pardon; passage; pathos; perspicuity; petition; philanthropy; piety; plainness; pleasantness; poetry; poise; praise; prank; prayer; preen; proficiency; propriety; prowess; purification; purity; quality; quarter; quickness; readiness; recognition; redemption; refinement; relief; remission; reprieve; resource; respite; restraint; rosary; run; sainthood; sanctity; savvy; seamanship; sectarian; service; shrift; signalize; simplicity; sophistication; soundness; sparing; style; subtlety; suit; superiority; supplication; sympathy; tact; taste; technique; thanks; thanksgiving; timing; trim; turn; usefulness; validity; value; virtue; virtuosity; wholeness; wit; witchery; wizardry; workmanship


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grace and; grace through; grace unto; grace would