hosanna

Example Sentences

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According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas.

From Time Magazine Archive

That hosannah in the skies really wasn't bad, was it?

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

But nothing but hosannah is not enough for life, the hosannah must be tried in the crucible of doubt and so on, in the same style.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

"That doesn't sound like a glad hosannah to me!"

From You Can Search Me by McHugh, Hugh

No one was ever killed by a street hosannah, no one was ever hurt by hearing a hallelujah.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)