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Example sentences for "reverences"

Lexicographically close words:
reverberatory; revere; revered; reverence; reverenced; reverencing; reverend; reverendo; reverens; reverent
  1. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man.

  2. And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of.

  3. Their Reverences the Canons would lay the whole bishopric under an interdict if Jacqueline brought a complaint of the smallest damage.

  4. As they passed through the chambers, the title of Don Fernando was forwarded on by servants stationed at every door; and every where produced the most profound reverences and courtesies.

  5. This ceremony over, the king got up, and with similar reverences returned to his stall.

  6. Thus having passed half an hour in discourse, I took my leave of her Majesty and the Empress, making reverences to all the ladies in passing.

  7. Duc rose, and having made his reverences to the King forgot to sit down and cover himself to speak, according to the uninterrupted right and usage of the peers of France; therefore not one of us rose.

  8. Reverences were repeated here, in silence, however, so they did very well.

  9. I will give you a hurried and imperfect sketch of the conversation.

  10. He was himself destined one day to feel how soon parliamentary reaction may follow a sweeping popular triumph.

  11. Pusey here from 12 to 3 about church building.

  12. Read to my deep sorrow of Anstice's death on Monday.

  13. Certainly my inward experience on these occasions ought to make me humble.

  14. Named the discrepancy between his creed and his imagination as the marring idea of his works, in which description I could not concur.

  15. I ventured to call his attention to that which followed as carrying out the idea: 'And all that mighty heart is lying still.

  16. Roger made his reverences to his royal kinsman, and was directed to seat himself on a velvet settle which faced them.

  17. People of this kind were not expected to have any manners, beyond the indispensable one of making the most obsequious reverences to the meanest dweller in the Castle, or to a priest.

  18. Illustration: 'Roger made his reverences to his royal kinsman, and was directed to seat himself on a velvet settle which faced them.

  19. Ergo, they accorden; and dignites ben good with 10 reverences and honour.

  20. Masonry reverences all reformers, but does not define their Divinity, 525-l.

  21. Instinctively he turns to God and reverences and relies on Him.

  22. Ac eremites that enhabiten hem By the heye weyes, And in borwes among brewesters, And beggen in churches Al that holy eremytes Hateden and despisede, As rychesses and reverences And ryche mennes almesse.

  23. The Reverences did not know how to respond to this interruption.

  24. His Excellency, the Governor General, begs Your Reverences to wait a moment," said the adjutant.

  25. Which of Your Reverences is Father Dámaso?

  26. To-day, at last, I have shown the Reverences that we are not all their playthings.

  27. The ceremony and feelings described are curious, I think; and more so perhaps to a person who was in England only yesterday, and quitted it just as their Graces, Lordships, and Reverences were sitting down to dinner.

  28. When their reverences were gone, the laity were served; and I have no doubt, from the leg of a duck which I got, that the breast and wings must have been very tender.

  29. Tesse made his reverences to him as he descended from his coach, had the honour of dining with him, and of escorting him that very day to Paris.

  30. The reverences just made, and those I shall have occasion to speak of in the course of my description, were the same as are seen at the receptions of the chevaliers of the Saint-Esprit, and in all grand ceremonies.

  31. They had not the strength to address their thanks to the king, who himself cut short their solemn reverences by entrenching himself suddenly behind the fauteuil.

  32. They all bowed down before the king, making their reverences very orderly, and formed as fine a shew of beasts as I had ever seen.

  33. When these were put on, and mutual salams or reverences given, they again sat down, like so many painted images, dressed up in coats of coarse gold and silver velvet.

  34. No man reverences true women more than I do.

  35. No man reverences women as I do; but I reverence them as women.

  36. After the salute, the commissioner and Sir James Saumarez stood up, and walked to the front of the Pavilion, made three reverences to the King's state, and the procession returned to the Convent.

  37. I stand before your reverences this day a professed Lutheran, despairing of mercy from man, but full of confidence in the mercy of God.

  38. I dared to say that their reverences had dealt somewhat hardly with me, and the like.

  39. Prisoners always come before their reverences with uncovered head and feet.

  40. But their honours and reverences had not seen my bills.

  41. He might have been a statue of stone but for a sad, tranquil smile, and the grave courtesy of the salute with which he returned the reverences of the judges.

  42. Three formal reverences are their salutation, the queen taking off her hat as Ferdinand approaches and formally kisses her on the cheek.

  43. Katty had sent several of the gorsoons "to see if they could see any sight of the clargy," but hitherto their Reverences were invisible.

  44. He who reads these noble records of a past age, salutes and reverences the great spirits who adorn it.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reverences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.