But in the letters herein mentioned the records of unanswered prayers included many whoprayed for visions of heaven or who wished to see the angels or the face of the Saviour.
He related how, when once he was lost in a thick forest on a cloudy day, he prayed until his "sense of direction" became so clear that he started with closed eyes to take the direction toward which his inward impression impelled him.
A man prayed that he might be protected through the night.
One brother prayed continually, "Oh, for one view of the holy city!
He seemed to forget the past, and I often prayed that the past would forget him.
We were within a week of the race, and grandpapa, in the pink of condition, only hoped and prayed that the law would not put violent hands upon him before Henley Regatta.
For his dear sake I prayed and trusted I might be spared to see him to the end of his complicated existence.
I only hoped and prayed that he would pass, and have done with it.
But this was not all her task, for now she must say farewell to her own little room, where she had so often knelt down and prayed at night--prayed for the time which she hoped was dawning now!
So very weak and spent she felt as she lay down, so very calm and unresisting, that she had no thought of any wants of her own, but prayed that God would raise up some friend for him.
With regard to the staircase of the library, about which so much has been said to me, you may believe that if I could remember how I had arranged it, I should not need to be begged and prayed for information.
Michelangelo knelt, and prayed for pardon in a loud voice, pleading in his excuse that he had not erred through forwardness, but through great distress of mind, having been unable to endure the expulsion he received.
If he blundered, seeing the times in which we live, I am to blame, for I prayed him urgently to write.
Both, however, assert that he was wounded, even to tears, at having to abandon the monument of Julius, and that he prayed in vain to be relieved of the new and uncongenial task.
But when the second and the third were sent, he called Michelangelo and said: 'You have tried a bout with the Pope on which the King of France would not have ventured; therefore you must not go on letting yourself be prayed for.
Oh, I have prayedandprayed and prayed," he replied querulously; "but it does no good.
Had I prayed to the deaf impersonal power which your husband believes in, I could not have been more hopelessly unheard or unheeded.
I have fought with myself, and prayedto God to be delivered from my bondage; but it is in vain.
With a strange light on his white, wasted face, with his gaunt hands folded on the counterpane before him, the old man sat up in bed and prayed in the same loud voice of pain and semi-delirium.
That evening the unbeliever went to the temple and prostrated himself before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
If we do not love God, it is because we have not wished to love Him, tried to love Him, prayed to love Him.
It was known that every Sunday theyprayed for a blessing on the arms of Bonaparte.
It was a sore day for Mrs. Weir; she wept and prayed over the infant backslider until my lord was due from Court, and she must resume that air of tremulous composure with which she always greeted him.
Then Goody, who had nothing said, Her bundle from her lap let fall; And, kneeling on the sticks, she prayed 95 To God that is the judge of all.
Heretofore these societies had prayed and wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western New York!
Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed and prayed over.
You would have done what you prayed for, had it been in your power.
It is certain that at Athens Demades obtained a verdict against one who sold furniture for funerals, by proving that he had prayed for great gains, which he could not obtain without the death of many persons.
What should we say of a pilot who prayed to the gods for dreadful storms and tempests, in order that danger might make his skill more highly esteemed?
One woman prayed for those who would not bow the knee.
As soon as we were seen, a servant of the Magistracy approached us and prayed us to dismount to salute respectfully 'Their Excellencies of Geneva,' who had come to meet us and to bid us welcome.
He fasted till his life was in danger; he prayed seven times and scourged himself thrice daily, but found no peace.
They listened with humility to the exhortations of some of the members of the Synod, who prayed them to use more gentleness in dealing with an undisciplined people.
On the day of the wedding he preached and prayed with a small company of young nobles, twenty in all.
The death Jesus courted came, and when it came he could not face it, but prayedto himself that he might not die.
And heprayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?
The Society was preached against and prayed against until it collapsed; and yet it was simply a society for discovering everything possible about man, prehistoric as well as modern.
He prayed to the only true God to help him when now he wanted to strike a blow for truth.
She snivelled andprayed and, instead of helping me, she just drove me on and on.
I have known about you; I've kept track of you; I've waited and prayed for the time when it would be best for me to see you.
Children, we prayedwith equal breath--no time can soften!
And the Tenor bowed his sunny head and prayed for her earnestly through all the long hours of solitary suffering which closed that day.
I have prayed for you day and night without ceasing, and only just now, as I passed the convent, I went to ask the night portress for tidings of our wandering sheep, and specially mentioned you.
She prayed that he might be an upright man, that he might come to her soon; she even asked for some sign by which she should know him.
She fell on her knees beside the bed, and prayed as she had not often prayed in her brief careless life.
One of Caroline's defenders said that if her name were left out of the Litany, yet still she was prayed for there as one who was desolate and oppressed.
What are ye doing with y'r freedom, the freedom that the children o' light prayedfor and fought for and died for?
When St. Anne saw what he had done she fell upon her knees and prayed to God to punish him.
And now, pine tree, Pine tree, Long enough have I prayed of thee, But I have a brother, A fine shepherd.
When Christ saw this he prayed to God to put as many obstacles in the giant's way as possible, for it was still some time before the sun would set, and he would otherwise quickly finish the cutting of the whole field.
So she prayed that God would punish this impostor, thief, and robber.
Then David prayed for God's mercy and said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
He had eaten of our salt and was our servant; thus he would readily have died for us; but he prayed pardon if we asked him to believe in us.
He told me again that I had been a good boy, and that now, if I prayed and was sorry for my faults, I should be happy and should please God.
She made of me a man, of herself a girl, and prayed love's advocacy to prove the delusion true.
What talks and what nights had we had together; how together had we fallen from heaven and ruefullyprayed for that trick of falling soft!
Alas, poor dear, she knew neither how small the prize was nor how great the price, and her eyes prayed me not to turn her fears to certainty.
Israel Barlow and myself repaired, leaving Brother Thomas Colburn outside to watch and tend the door while we prayed and rebuked the raging wind and boisterous sea.
My aunt dreamed that I returned and laid my hands upon her, prayed for her, and she was made whole, and pursued her journey with the company.
On hearing this news, a number of the brethren met together and prayed to God to overrule the wicked designs of the mob meeting, that they might not have power to agree upon their plans, or to execute their wicked threats.
From this time until the 10th of the month, the Elders came frequently andprayed for my husband.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
