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“A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter, she was an object of speculation and venerations, gossip and legend,” Ms. Schiff wrote in the opening chapter.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010
His daily prayers mixed traditional Hindu venerations with Buddhist chants, readings from the Koran, a Zoroastrian verse or two and the Christian hymn Lead, Kindly Light.
From Time Magazine Archive
A chutch ought to be damp, and smell solemn like of owd age and venerations.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville
What do you think of that,—with affections, venerations, loves, sympathies, swelling around you like a tide?
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
There are solemnities and venerations that only a top-hat can inspire in the naturally irreverent mind of youth.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
