Samuel Egerton Brydges gives a pleasing account of the character of Andrew Willet, whom Fuller ranks among England’s worthies (vol.
These worthies constitute a religious police; and you always know them by the great white diapers they wear.
He stands pre-eminent among theworthies who originated and conducted the revival of practical religion which took place in the last century.
Among the worthies celebrated in the memorial windows of the Plymouth town hall is “William Cookworthy, Chemist and Potter, the discoverer of the English China-clay, and the first maker in England of true Porcelain.
Before these worthies they had made full confession of their misdeeds, but to what an extent they had been drawn on by leading questions appears from the procès verbal of these examinations.
If this were a book of Minor Worthies of Devon, I should hesitate about admitting one who was in nothing worthy, but possessed wit caustic and cutting.
Do they believe that there were any worthies at all in England before the steam-engine and political economy were discovered?
We hope honestly that he may be as successful in his next volumes as he has been in these, in vindicating the worthiesof the sixteenth century.
It is very fitting that his memory should be especially cherished with that of Hopkins and Berkeley in the beautiful island to which the common residence of those worthies has lent additional charms and interest.
As I look over the list of the excellent worthies of the first emigrations, I find no one who, in all respects, occupies a nobler place in the early colonial history of Massachusetts than John Winthrop.
His companions, as frightened as himself, rushed after him, and the three worthies drove furiously back to the city.
In connection with the Medical School of Edinburgh were several worthies who have been made immortal by the graphic pen of Leighton.
One of these worthies I will name, as he not only took a big swath in the evening's entertainment, but he was a man more generally known than our worthy President, James K.
All, all the godlikeworthies that adorn This realm, she flies: Phaeacia is her scorn.
But say, upon the dark and dismal coast, Saw'st thou the worthies of the Grecian host?
Virgil, Ovid, and other worthies were of this opinion.
And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive, These four will change habits and present the other five.
Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthiesmake one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
O Lord, sir, they would know Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no?
But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.
Pardon me, Proteus; all I can is nothing To her, whose worth makes otherworthies nothing; She is alone.
Having each turned off a couple of horns of their good host's home-brewed, the conversation between the two worthiesbegan to assume a lively, desultory character.
Those worthies had remained at their windows awaiting their master's entrance to carry out a little surprise which François had devised.
So without more ado I started:-- Once there came a mighty thirsty drought (So old worthies tell).
This song started sincerely and cheerfully enough:-- Once there came a mighty furious wind (So old worthies tell).
These worthiesare not to be "abused with profane wit or low buffoonery.
He asked the permission of the Chinese, but those worthies were as dilatory as usual, and Mouravieff could not wait.
The merchant traveler drinks enormous quantities, and I have seen a couple of these worthies empty a twenty cup samovar with no appearance of surfeit.
The council wanted a portrait of one of its mayors for St. Andrew’s Hall—that Valhalla of Norwich municipal worthies which still strikes the stranger as well-nigh unique in the city life of England.
And thus Mayor Hawkes came to be painted by Benjamin Haydon, and his portrait may be found, not without diligent search, among the many municipal worthies that figure on the walls of that most picturesque old Hall in Norwich.
Such was the outset of the worthies of the renewed Covenant, in their war with the first Charles.
Footnote 34: Two worthies who had abandoned public life, owing to the state of the times.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worthies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
