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reverential
1. He imagined that through a process of reverential ingestion, a portion of those powers might somehow come to belong to him
2. She could see that he tried to eat slowly with an almost desperately reverential cast to his features
3. Christ died for us while we were sinners, how much more should we be unafraid to draw near to God as His righteous children in the midst of our weaknesses and shortcomings! For a child of God the fear of the Lord is more of a reverential fear that recognizes the awesomeness and capableness of God’s power, therefore causing us to be even more drawn to Him
4. They are shrewd in business, acute in reasoning, thrifty, religious, sober, charitable, obedient to parents, reverential to old age, amiable, law-abiding, compassionate towards the helpless and patient under suffering
5. Mark gave a thoughtful and reverential sermon about honoring one’s adversaries and respecting them in death
6. Those He has chosen will have a reverential fear of God and
7. Thank you for also providing me with a number of wonderful spiritual directors over the years so that I am not leading myself, but being accountable to you through the ministry of others who listen to my life experience and provide valuable feedback and reverential guidance
8. That the Quran is recited in Arabic the world over, its ayats rendered to rhythm would have no more than a reverential impact on the majority of the Musalmans
9. spoken of this creature in reverential terms
10. Then, there are those with genuine prejudices too, and these had much to do with the denunciations of Islam that were carried out in Europe during the Crusades, which passed on from generation to generation, and Karen Armstrong has written on the same in her very balanced biography of Prophet Muhammad, in which she has also critiqued the prophet on some points, and as a reviewer has put it, she has been “respectful but not reverential”
11. referred to Jesus Christ in a way which seemed almost reverential
12. The power was so pure and reverential, he fell to his knees at the foot
13. She was suffused with reverential delight
14. Barnes looked on at the little domestic scene with reverential sympathy
15. 'Will you kindly present me?' said Brosy to Charlotte, standing reverential and bare-headed before the great man
16. About and around the slabs whereon the human bodies lay, in bottles and in plates, this material which had no place except in the cabinets of a laboratory was inhumanly displayed in profusion, close to corpses for which a morgue is expected to provide some degree of reverential care
17. This time they were miscellaneous, and Miss Entwhistle turned them over with a kind of reverential reluctance
18. reverential attitude is therefore cultivated, encouraging a ritualistic approach to
19. The beast seemed to realize his intentions, for rather than swim forward to meet him in the middle of the bay, it carried Ingrid back to the bank, where it laid her down with a reverential grace that outraged Scott even further
20. What will you do with such a fortune?" asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye
21. Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse?
22. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time
23. at another's board, and endure the life-long chill which must be his lot who seeks to warm himself only at another's fireside, it truly seemed that this sagacious, experienced, benevolent old physician, with his concord of paternal and reverential love for the young pastor, was the very man, of all mankind, to be constantly within reach of his voice
24. No, he merely drew a pocketbook from his pocket, and took from it a paper folded in four, and after having examined it in a manner almost reverential, he said—"Good! I have it still!"
25. The parties engaged in the project being Mr Absolom the writer—a man no overly reverential in his opinion of the law and lords when his clients lost their pleas, which, poor folk, was very often—and some three or four young and inexperienced lads, that were wont to read essays, and debate the kittle points of divinity and other hidden knowledge, in the Cross-Keys monthly, denying the existence of the soul of man, as Dr Sinney told me, till they were deprived of all rationality by foreign or British spirits
26. The body, however, was but a pompous trifle, and I had for many a day held his observes and admonishments in no very reverential
27. It was again that expression of reverential ecstasy which had so worked upon her the day before
28. In delivering it she gave also Clare's accent and manner with reverential faithfulness
29. " He had nothing to say against the last four; but he regarded them as a reverential pagan regarded other gods than his own
30. In fact, he had a reverential soul with a strong practical intelligence
31. Bonfons (sometimes ironically spoken of as mademoiselle) inspires for the most part reverential respect: and yet that noble heart, beating only with tenderest emotions, has been, from first to last, subjected to the calculations of human selfishness; money has cast its frigid influence upon that hallowed life and taught distrust of feelings to a woman who is all feeling
32. “Tandy Angel,” he said, in an almost reverential, hushed way
33. The soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats
34. Jessie’s voice became almost reverential
35. Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel
36. Though the need of a change of life is preached by the religious leaders and recognized and realized by the most intelligent men, the majority, in spite of their reverential attitude to their leaders, that is, their faith in their teaching, continue to be guided by the old theory of life in their present complex existence
37. All the clerks were motionless, in reverential expectation
38. The hand he laid on young Carrington’s arm was almost reverential in its touch