godship

Example Sentences

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Mr. Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, lost no opportunity to flout with indignity the claims of Victor Hugo to his supreme literary godship.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

And in a spring that rises out of the sea near the shore he was able at last to mingle his waters with those of the one for whom he had lost his godship.

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

And after Brahm� has spent his modest day everything is destroyed and his godship spends an equal period in sleep and rest.

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

And in his godship I will honour him— Not much as man.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

His godship was a little injured in his transit; but he was very perfect in deformity before, and his ugliness could not, by any accident, be improved.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry