reverencing
Example Sentences
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In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is picturesque,—that conception of a great, sincere man and of a world reverencing him and begging to be led by him.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss
On such ground we tread lightly, reverencing the great and mighty dead.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope
They reverently bore them—reverencing the beauty, and above all reverencing them as the work of One who had given him aid to think of their creation, and to embody them according to the pure conception.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Almore, Casper
Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.—Æschylus.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
