meetness

Example Sentences

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Did they sit in that dim sweetness Of attained love's after-calm, Marking not the world—its meetness, Marking Time not, nor his fleetness, Only happy, palm to palm?

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin

Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.

From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan

The rose is the fairest of earthly flowers— It is all of beauty and of sweetness— So my dear maid, in the heavenly bowers, Excels in beauty and in meetness.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various

Be it ours, like Lazarus, to attain a meetness for heaven, by becoming more and more like Lazarus’ Redeemer!

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

“And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?” demanded the little girl, laughing.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah