The rulers were afraid to do any harm to Peter and John, because they knew that the people praised God for the good work that they had done; and they would be angry to have harm come to them.
When his wife Elizabeth found that God was soon to give her a child, she was very happy, and praised the Lord.
Saul the king became very jealous of David because the people praised him after his fight with Goliath.
You will be praised By everybody if you pardon us.
Yet I had thought you were of those that praised Whatever life could make the pulse run quickly, Even though it were brief, and that you held That a free gift was better than a forced.
I have heard youpraised For giving gifts; and you will pardon us, Although I cannot go into your house.
With chastity praised from the pulpits and whores the length of London.
Nominal Muslim though he was, Prince Jadar downed a generous portion of the boar and praised the flavor.
How They Praised Melicent The conqueror and the conquered sat together upon the prow of Perion's ship.
They repeated his happy answers in all quarters, praised his behavior, pitied his sufferings, and reviled and ridiculed his enemies.
When he died he was spoken of as an amateur, and praised as a cricketer of some merit.
Rafael, who had been praised and petted (and forgiven) for his exploit on the mountainside until he was in no small danger of self-conceit, detected something that he did not like in this allusion and looked up sharply.
And all that saw them praised them; they lauded man and horse As mated well and rivalless for gallantry and force; Ne'er had they looked on horseman might to this knight come near, Nor on other charger worthy of such a cavalier.
You look sweet, every one of you," praised Judith.
I could not sleep, but praised the Father all that night.
He praised God for such a person who was willing to work among that class of people.
When they saw me alight at their door, they shouted and praised the Lord.
I had such victory in my soul that I just shouted and praised the Lord.
Another woman in the same prison was also prayed for and was instantly healed by the Lord, of a large tumor, and ran and praised God for what He had done for her.
My Dear Mother: How many, many times I have thanked our kind Father above and praised His Holy Name for sending you to our prison gate on that November night in 1888.
John Hunt, in the Examiner, was 'trumpeting' Bentham and Romilly in 1812, and was praised accordingly.
It was highly praised by Thomas Reid,[253] and by the Monthly Review; it was translated into various languages, and became one of the sacred books of the Economists.
They praised the stateliness of his domes, and extolled the honour of his family.
Marcus Aurelius embodied some of the precepts of his philosophy in a book which has been praised by wise and learned men.
But John, to be sopraised and honoured, to have hosts of soldiers under your command, and to have the pages of history filled with the fame of your victories, how can you be blind to such glory as that?
I shall find you delightful; I think you're enchanting just as you are," replied Isabel, who often praised profusely.
Ralph Touchett had praised his cousin for being morally inflammable, that is for being quick to take a hint that was meant as good advice.
And I havepraised the Play and flattered my Lady's Judgment to such a Degree of Pride and Obstinancy as will never bear Contradiction again.
Well, but allowing it all [it] deserves, why must it be praised so very much?
I have praisedyour singing until everybody is wild to hear you.
And when the King came back, he rejoiced to find his brother whole and sound and merry, as Ailill had ever been, and he praised Etain for her gentleness and care.
The conduct of Moreau, in placing himself in the ranks of the Allies, will be praised or condemned, according as men judge him to have been swayed by patriotic motives, or by those of personal resentment and ambition.
But He blamed them not because they praised Him with their voice, but because their hearts felt not what their lips uttered.
Near the close of the debate Mr. Calhoun made a strong speech in favor of ratification, in which he praised both Lord Ashburton and Mr. Webster.
Bambi chuckled as she read, and patted the part which praised her.
She condemned certain parts, praised others, flashed new thoughts upon him, forced him to new viewpoints.
He took pleasure in promoting my consequence at the theatre; he praised my talents, and he interested himself in my domestic comforts.
My clothes were sent for from London; my fancy was indulged to the extent of its caprices; I was flattered and praised into a belief that I was a being of superior order.
She was doing a little picture, and it had been praised at the studio.
It's all very well, Miss Sheba," he had said once, when she praised the skill with which he employed his scant resources.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
