Meditations like mine assumed somewhat of a biographical character.
Then again in the gray of the morning Solomon was at his meditations upon the housetop.
There in his meditations he thought to himself that the Queen of Sheba had paid him great honor and that he ought in courtesy to send her a suitable present.
With such meditations I endeavoured to beguile the time and cheat myself into forgetfulness of the lameness of my horse, and the dripping wetness of his rider.
What the thoughts of Sor Juana were like in her ordinary religious life we understand partly from a number of daily exercises and meditations which have come down to us.
It containsmeditations on each phrase of the Litany from the Kyrie eleison to the Agnus Dei.
These meditations are of suitable length for May devotions, and are admirable for their solidity no less than for their piety.
A man's thoughts are only stirred by sorrow, and theirmeditations by grief.
He was devout, and loved longmeditations and long prayers; sometimes he had ecstasies.
What have been the fruits of theirmeditations and of their arguments?
Anxious meditations upon an object impossible to grasp, and which, however, is supposed to be very important to him, can but put a man into bad humor, and produce in his brain dangerous transports.
Their peaceable ignorance, is it not more advantageous than these extravagant meditations and these futile investigations which render you miserable, and for which you are driven to murdering beings of your own noble kind?
All my meditationshowever only terminated in the conviction that it was my duty to continue to use my best exertions under such adverse circumstances.
My own meditations were of a more melancholy character, for I feared that the days of some of the light-hearted group were already numbered and would soon be brought to a close.
His best-known work is 'Judas Iscariot; or, Meditations on the Good in its relation to Evil.
This volume consists of certain brief meditations of Pere Jean Nicholas Grou on some of the deepest realities of the spiritual life.
The tenderness, strength, and good cheer of many of the personal meditations are helpful.
With exceedingly few exceptions, there is nothing in these meditations which would determine the ecclesiastical position of the writer.
Indeed, I was so engrossed with meditations upon the curious ease with which a man's life is let out of him, that I quite forgot for some seconds to continue firing.
The inner life and meditations of the Blessed Angela were written down from her lips, and were read over to her by the confessor.
So deep, so engrossing, were her meditations and sensations, that Mr. Amos who had come up to congratulate her on the approaching termination of the voyage, spoke to her once and again without being heard.
Eleanor blushed and thought she might as well leave his meditations alone.
His meditations were interrupted by a whisper at his elbow.
Startled from its meditations by his sudden propinquity to the object that he had unwittingly approached, he now, for the first time, examined the lonely abode before him with real attention.
His secret meditations had thus occupied him for some time longer, when the sound of a footstep was audible outside the door.
Here, for a short space of time, the Pagan rested his weary frame, and aroused himself insensibly from the enthralling meditations which had hitherto blinded him to the troubled aspect of the world around him.
With the first breath of the new morning, the delighting meditations which had occupied him by his watchfire during the darkness of the night had begun to subside.
Saddening and impressive as was the prospect thus presented to the eyes of the young Goth, it failed to weaken the powerful influence that his evening's meditations yet held over his mind.
This, whence to me returneth thy regard, The light is of a spirit unto whom In his grave meditations death seemed slow.
Meditations and Considerations for a Retreat of One Day in each Month.
Her prayers and meditations may be used with advantage for spiritual reading.
The exercises consist of three meditations and a "consideration," for each month in the year, arranged after the manner of the exercises of St. Ignatius.
Retreat, Meditations and Considerations for a, 720.
Being Meditationsand Spiritual Readings for daily use.
Another series is promised, which will contain suitable meditations for the ecclesiastical year, and the feasts of the Blessed Virgin and the saints.
Do you think,' said I, 'that St. Francis in his meditations became sometimes a little distrait?
Yet the meditations are not merely beautiful, they are also very practical.
This volume consists of a series of meditations drawn from the Holy Scripture and modern spiritual writers.
It is not, however, a book containing meditationsfor the entire year, as one would be led to imagine from its title.
I must call on him this afternoon; for he ought to be stirring himself up by hymns and prayers, and by meditations on the beauty of saints and angels, for so goodly a work.
At length my meditations were disturbed by the approach of the little player, who seemed quite contented with his fate.
We shall here close our meditations upon this most profound and precious book.
We shall here close our meditations upon one of the richest sections in the whole canon of inspiration.
But this evening, instead of his usual thoughts and meditationsupon official details, his thoughts were absorbed by his wife and something disagreeable connected with her.
His meditationswere of the most complex and diverse character.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meditations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
