hold in respect
Example Sentences
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Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
He could not hold in respect the man who, it seemed to him, had betrayed his friends.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
Jesuits recognize only one creed, Freemasons hold in respect all honest convictions.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
The run of luck did not hold in respect to this; there was no key; and the combination dial was smug with ill-grounded confidence in its own inviolable integrity.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
Paris, the impregnable, vanquished by famine, is no longer able to hold in respect the German hordes.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
