How To Use Behold In A Sentence

I clicked the 'Live Chat' button, and lo and behold, I was deposited in a chat room with what sounded suspiciously like a chatbot.
Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
He accepts it and, lo and behold, is still an ID proponent. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
This past week in the forest park, the fiery foliage set against cobalt skies was a sight to behold.
However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.

The effect of my statement upon my husband was terrible to behold. LION IN THE VALLEY
Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep. Oliver Twist
Lessard leads a double life as a wrestler in the Ontario wrestling circuit and a UW grad student in CS; certainly a feat to behold.
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Lo and behold, get a bit of nicotine down him and a nice cappuccino, and you can't get a word in edgeways.
Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head. Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel! Sketches — Volume 05
Tall mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
It was a grand sight to behold him in his dressing-gown composing a menu.
In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
I finished work today, go to pick the car up and lo and behold some scruffy twoccers have smashed the window, nicked the stereo which is no good because I kept the face with me and completely ripped all the ignition out.
'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka. The Pool in the Desert
Her exercises, done with spellbinding precision and timing are a joy to behold.
Such are your own and your friends’ impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery — too volatile and versatile — too flowery and coloury. Villette
Ooh, now that was a beautiful sight to behold. Times, Sunday Times
And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
The language is a wild mixture of vaquero-cowboy Spanglish and the King James Bible — you ' ll find words like " pulverulence " and " sudorific, " and one character says, without a shred of irony: " Lo, would you behold what has arrived? Southwestern Gothic
Behold the domesticated guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press.
The only good of worldly riches to the possessor is the beholding them with the eyes. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
May this missive find its beholder sound of shank and in good kidney.
It has been said that art is a tryst , for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
A tussle with an eel is a sight to behold. Times, Sunday Times
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the allure of affordable-luxury businesses such as day spas and beauty salons is positively irresistible.
Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
He hoped some of the Fists might perhaps behold that gesture with joy.
It seemed that every trades-man in the county, from the black-smith to the chandler, came out of the wood-work to proclaim that he was beholden to them.
It is equally impossible that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
And behold, Sharrkan and his men charged down upon the Infidels and cut off their retreat and wheeled and tourneyed among the ranks; when lo! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It is a popular field of collecting, pleasant to behold and with a spice of magic about it.
Such are your own and your friends 'impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery -- too volatile and versatile -- too flowery and coloury. Villette
I consider Sister Stephanie to be a saint, and I feel great pleasure in beholding the merits of Sister Casilda, and the favours which our Lord bestows upon her ever since she put on the habit. The Letters of St. Teresa
Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
The buildings were dilapidating yet splendid to behold.
In that same year Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, saw in the dances of the Indians a near and dangerous temptation, for after once being in their Houses, and beholding what their worship was, I durst never be an eye witnesse . . . lest I should have been partaker of Satans inventions and worships, contrary to Ephes. A Renegade History of the United States
It enables people to grow their own food and develop local economies not beholden to either home-grown tyrants or multinational corporations.
Crippled effectivity is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Texas Faith: Should the next Supreme Court justice be a Protestant? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company. Carmen
There, I took off the coat and stepped around a corner to behold rows upon rows of Starfleet cadets in formation, uniforms perfect, expertly coifed. The Fifth Color | Reach for the Stars | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
His achievement is not in his emotional impact on the beholder.
And having deduced 'that good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit,' he returns 'to that good of man which respects and beholds society,' which he terms DUTY, because the term of duty is more proper to a mind well framed and disposed towards others, as the term of VIRTUE is applied to a mind well formed and composed in itself; though neither can a man understand _virtue, without some relation to society_, nor _duty, without an inward disposition_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The enormous outpouring of love, kindness, caring, generosity and courage was amazing to behold.
Does he need an overmighty sidekick personally beholden to him as well? Times, Sunday Times
It is as if, in the midnoon of a god-given day of golden spring, they should hug a black umbrella down about their heads and cry aloud, "Behold, there is no sun! The Theory of the Theatre
He was startled to behold their beauty, and at once felt a rush of love for these creatures, blessing them as the only other living things in his damnable world.
Only the worshippers of Buddha now behold the gleam of the Oriental Sun on the golden roofs of the lamasery; the great caravans from the city of the Dalai Lama pass through the border town with no one to tell the pilgrims of the "Heavenly Ruler. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Quality, in any case, is in the eye of the beholder.
Beholders prefer inaccessible locations that earthbound foes can reach only with difficulty.
I saw signs of newly dug graves, and then I imagined to myself, "O God, he has been buried, and I shall never again behold him! The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
But there is no man in the world so hardy, Christian man ne other, but that he would be adread to behold it, and that it would seem him to die for dread, so is it hideous for to behold. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Behold him next assuming the reins of government at a time when every other mind on earth would have shrunk aghast from the fearful task, or sunk beneath its complicated perils. The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
Remember that beauty is the eye of the beholder and people see pretty much what they want to see. SOMEBODY
Ghirlandaio uses the gesture to address the beholder at the beginning of both triads of heroes.
Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society," but it was done with a propriety which was edifying to behold. Scarlet Stockings
The largest sailing ship on Earth is something to behold. Times, Sunday Times
Behold thoroughly dimensional characters, quirky and flawed and utterly believable whether human or nonhuman.
Heh, I finally finished typing my post so if you went to that link and saw nothin, well, sorry! was blabbing! done now! you may now behold the blab that is my frustration! The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
A partial answer to this is that mere things only present themselves to mere beholding, but mere beholding is only a deficient mode of concern or engagement.
'I hold fast by the Saviour,' Behold another wonder; the idolatress in an ecstasy of joy. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
Never had any doctrine or reading of canon law prevented him from beholding a religion's pure and numinous core. THE BROKEN GOD
They should remember, what they uniformly and universally forget, that we are not invited, upon the rising of the curtain to behold a cosmorama, or picture of the world, but a representation of that part of it called Vanity Fair. The Potiphar Papers
Behold, here there begins an eternal craving and continual yearning in eternal insatiableness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
The temple was beautiful to behold, with its golden walls glittering in the sunshine. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
Zau al-Makan thanked him therefor, and the slogan arose and the sabre was drawn; but, as things stood thus, behold, there came forth a cavalier from the ranks of Roum; and, as he drew near, they saw that he was mounted on a slow paced she mule, fleeing with her master from the shock of swords. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He called the minister of the interior and, lo and behold, within about an hour, the prisoners were released.
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
Lo and behold, our backyard came with an orange tree and a Meyer lemon tree.
But this was a scene playing on the international stage, for the world to behold.
Suppose thou beholdest her in a frosty morning, in cold weather, in some passion or perturbation of mind, weeping, chafing, etc., riveled and ill-favored to behold .... An Odd Sort of Popular Book
And whether one is a 'scofflaw' is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder. Questions and Concerns about Foreigners in Mexico
So the Kitchener weighed it out to him and the good-for-naught entered the shop, whereupon the man set the food before him and he ate till he had gobbled up the whole and licked the saucers and sat perplexed, knowing not how he should do with the Cook concerning the price of that he had eaten, and turning his eyes about upon everything in the shop; and as he looked, behold, he caught sight of an earthen pan lying arsy-versy upon its mouth; so he raised it from the ground and found under it a horse's tail, freshly cut off and the blood oozing from it; whereby he knew that the Cook adulterated his meat with horseflesh. Arabian nights. English
Behold how gracious and beneficent smiles the roseate morn!
Lo and behold, (and abracadabra too), it worked!
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And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days: Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
Nay, we hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish!
They are commodities that, in their mere visible presence veil the production process, and - like mood pictures - encourage their beholders to identify them with subjective fantasies and dreams.
Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them. Clover
But feeling a kind of protuberance on its head, he blew the feathers apart, and behold! the head of a pin! Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
Good people and worthy citizens of this town," he might say, "behold in me the great master ... prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer. German Culture Past and Present
PROPHECY: “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14 NASB. Can America Survive?
Drawing up our full psychic powers we somehow reached into the ethereal plane and lo and behold the stylus began to move on the board.
Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
In the spring wild grasses are a sight to behold and there is wildlife and birdsong to enjoy.
Or we read in the 37th chapter of the _Book of Ezekiel_ of that weird valley that was full of bones -- "_and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to bone_," surely one of the most wonderful visions of the imagination in all literature. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Last summer I toyed briefly with the idea of becoming a tour guide - lo and behold, here were my potential customers… anyway, there was the entertainment of watching a woman struggle with a friendly poodle she claimed wasn't hers.
In these actions we apparently behold as perfect a transmission of will in the zoophyte, though composed of thousands of distinct polypi, as in any single animal. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Then he called and lo and behold, I ended up looking like a goof.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
From Mount Ampenan, and over the rocky coastline and long golden beaches is a sight to behold.
Abraham answered, ‘Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.’
Constrained, therefore, to behold objects in their more genuine hues, their deformity is by degrees less painful to us. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5). 'Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman
There is a mystic beauty lurking in its vales and dells, which lifts the soul above the realms of time and space, and makes the beholder sense the presence of the divine.
And if there's a food place with a good write up in the independent travellers' bible, lo and behold, many food shops change their names to match.
It is particolored and it shimmers; it is lovely to behold and even lovelier to imagine beholding.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
Fortunately, after I bought my venti coffee and apple fritter aka the Doom of Mankind, I rounded the corner to my office, and what did my wondering eyes behold? Crankiness is an Asset
And he abode bewildered about his case and knew not what to do, but, as he was thus behold, in came Abd al-Rahman from his lurking place without the door and said to him, “No harm shall befal thee, for indeed thou deserves” safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Beauty is in the beholder’s eye.
PROPHECY: “Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son and, and she will call His name Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14 NASB. Can America Survive?
I had not fully declared these words, when as behold all the servants of the house were assembled with weapons to drive me away, one buffeted me about the face, another about the shoulders, some strook me in the sides, some kicked me, and some tare my garments, and so I was handled amongst them and driven from the house, as the proud young man The Golden Asse
Enter King Kong Vs. Godzilla, his first colour feature, and lo and behold, the radiation spawn is charcoal gray. Godzilla King | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
And although that icon is not a full-faced depiction of the Baptist, as you will sometimes see in iconography, what you see is John the Baptist in relation to and communion with Christ and therefore opening himself to the communication of Christ through him to the beholder. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
There are some truly breathtaking sights to behold. Times, Sunday Times
Behold that [city] Babylon, haughty in the flower and pride of impiousness, and its inhabitants completely given over to sin of every description. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
She repeated these words to her husband and they waited till the appointed time, when the King bade his Marids bring out to them a great litter of red gold, set with pearls and jewels and covered with a canopy of green silk, purfled in a profusion of colours and embroidered with precious stones, dazzling with its goodliness the eyes of every beholder. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were rows of sheds, railways, travelling-cranes, a street of cottages, an iron house for the resident engineer, wooden bothies for the men, a stage where the courses of the tower were put together experimentally, and behind the settlement a great gash in the hillside where granite was quarried. Memories and Portraits
The close control is something to behold. The Sun
The king loses his grip when he becomes obsessed - and this is a sight to behold - with a giant flea. Times, Sunday Times
The second woman turns outward to the beholder to elicit our negative opinion of this misbehavior.
So Abdullah entered and the Merman cried out, saying, “Ho, daughter mine!” when behold, there came to him a damsel with a face like the rondure of the moon and hair long, hips heavy, eyes black-edged and waist slender; but she was naked and had a tail. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. The Ten Books on Architecture
I am upstate and the lack of light pollution makes the eclipse a sight to behold.
Beholding that chastiser of foes made steedless and driverless, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The interaction between the rhythm section and the rest of the group is beauteous to behold.
I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise. The Confessions
We are not beholden therefore to any past political history or any particular business gimmick. Thinking the Unthinkable
beholdeth" (so vieweth) the Son as to believe on Him shall have everlasting life; and, that none of Him be lost, "I will raise him up at the last day. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Howsomever, lo and behold, what was clecking downstairs. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
Such images, the writer thought, could encourage beholders to accomplish noble deeds.
Then, lay out the ground lines of the length and breadth of the work proposed, and when once we have determined its size, let the construction follow this with due regard to beauty of proportion, so that the beholder may feel no doubt of the eurythmy of its effect. The Ten Books on Architecture
But the next spring he dights his ship for Denmark, and there he was for another winter, and was well beholden withal, though tidings be not told thereof.
There are some truly breathtaking sights to behold. Times, Sunday Times
How painful to behold in a family once happy, the father become a sot; the mother in tears, and the children lamenting or imitating the vices of the parent.
The side Kenkenes approached sloped sharply from the dromos toward the river, and the rearmost spectators had small opportunity to behold the pageant. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
Detail is sharp and clear, contrast is nicely managed, and deep black levels make this pleasing to behold - visually.
Bloggers decocted the effects of beauty on the beholder and the holder. Debrahlee Lorenzana Asks Human Rights Officials To Investigate Citibank (VIDEO)
TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
It is a discourse of engaged beholders - quite literally a colloquy of amateurs - and need be nothing more.
I am He that liveth and was dead and behold, I am alive forever more amen.
“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—” What Would Betty Do?
In the marshy districts is seen the large elater, which displays both red and green lights; the red glare, like that of a lamp, alternately flashing on the beholder, then concealed as the insect turns his body in flight, but the ruddy reflection on the grass beneath being constantly visible as it leisurely pursues its course. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
It might not have struck every beholder, for it looked old and smoke-dried; but a connoisseur, on inspecting it closely, would have pronounced it to be a judgment of Paris, and a masterpiece of the Flemish school. Lavengro
According to this savant, all existing archaeological evidence should be destroyed and a sign installed in its place: ‘Behold the fate of idolaters!’
Behold the songster at work - a process found in early Armstrong, Guthrie and Robert Johnson.
And if he can telle mee of a citie on earthe where one can see more prettye, tiny feete, in neater shoos or gaytered bootes, thann hee may then beholde, I wolde fayne knowe where itt is, thatt I maye go there too. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
For evil purposes are, perchance, due to the imperfection of human nature; that it should be possible for scoundrels to carry out their worst schemes against the innocent, while God beholdeth, is verily monstrous. Consolation of Philosophy
Your editorial today is a nicely written spray, which makes good use of your unbeholden position - a very timely contrast to The Age!
Blending wood and steel together, artfully, is something to behold. Some Peeves from a Gunsmith
behold Christ!
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own.
Even the seemingly goodhearted politicians are irrevocably beholden to their big buck backers.
The ebb and flow of the sea is certainly a sight to behold.
I just happened upon an old SB phase 1 round up page of yours via someone else's link, was thinking you weren't really doing them anymore but also thought "I'll see what's new in the kitchen" and lo and behold, a round up! we're not actually doing south beach over at the puku... hmm, maybe we should think about it? definitely lots of inspiration here! South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-up: March 2008
The king loses his grip when he becomes obsessed - and this is a sight to behold - with a giant flea. Times, Sunday Times
They couldn't be more different - the pair of them massaging each other will be a sight to behold. The Sun
The most logical conclusion was that today's version was cross-dressing, wearing a strange hodgepodge of crinoline, fishnet, and pleather that was too ghastly to properly behold.
It is fortunate, and not to be wondered at, that the Scotsman so seldom goes home: for he is never so attractive as when, five hundred or five thousand miles away from them, he is agreeably engaged in beholding the Hebrides. Try Anything Twice
The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Les Miserables
This is particularly true of Britain, where the structure remains beholden to an ideal with little of its original significance. Times, Sunday Times
[2728] Harvey remarks, "The Valentinian Saviour being an aggregation of all the aeonic perfections, the images of them were reproduced by the spiritual conception of Achamoth beholding the glory of Soter. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
In that same year Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, saw in the dances of the Indians a near and dangerous temptation, for after once being in their Houses, and beholding what their worship was, I durst never be an eye witnesse . . . lest I should have been partaker of Satans inventions and worships, contrary to Ephes. A Renegade History of the United States
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
Then the king kept silence and looked at the ground, and at length said to him in kingly fashion: "Behold, oh bishop, the poor people of this land are brought to shame, and I would rather fall in battle so that my people can continued to possess their land. Time To Ditch St. George
That beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a truism the beauty giants are all too aware of as they cash in on the hang-ups of different races. Changing faces: cosmetics firms are forced to find a new image as beauty goes truly global
My heart leapt at beholding this mighty figure of a man-killer and slave-driver, it is true, but who sprang first into the teeth of danger so that his slaves might follow, and who emerged with a half-drowned slave in either hand. CHAPTER XXX
An thou be in love with one of these boys,312 by Allah, there is not among them a comelier than thou, for they are each and every as the dust at thy feet; and behold, they are all thy slaves and at thy command. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations - the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn. Chapter 20
a joy to behold
He sensed that a patient had excess energy, so he grounded the patient's big toe to a drainpipe with copper wire, and - lo and behold - it worked!
Debating groups like this are a common feature in Italian trecento and quattrocento narratives and usually serve to comment on scenes in the margin of which they appear, thus inviting the beholder to engage with what is represented.
Age after age has passed away, for no other purpose than to behold their wretchedness. Thomas Paine
The athletes in the league now are mouthier, he says, and are less beholden to the idea that all team business should be handled in the locker room. Who Forgot to Turn Off the NFL?
During the campaign, many people worried that Gray would be beholden to certain constituencies that supported him. Go to Gray's town halls
Those nations however, who did not of themselves raise up their eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to their Maker, nor wished to behold the light of truth, but who were like blind mice concealed in the depths of ignorance, the word justly reckons "as waste water from a sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance -- in fact, as nothing; ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
At the dinner-hour there were none to be met upon the stairs but honest folks, who, after having seen the Dauphiness take her soup, went to see the Princes eat their bouilli, and then ran themselves out of breath to behold Mesdames at their dessert. Dining in Public
The hotel is a sight to behold, with acres of Italian marble now covering the old town house. The Sun
It is the Church of God which we must oversee - that Church for which the world is chiefly upheld, which is sanctified by the Holy Ghost, which is the mystical body of Christ, that Church with which angels are present, and on which they attend as ministering spirits, whose little ones have their angels beholding the face of God in heaven. The Reformed Pastor
Tonight the look of love and pity in Marion 's dark eyes was terrible to behold. 52449_CLARA
It was an uncomfortable sight to behold. Times, Sunday Times
Chapter 27 1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
They think that we can't do it because we are so beholden to the special interests.
Their doubt is, in part, determined; and yet their vexation is increased by another messenger, who brings them word that their prisoners are preaching in the temple (v. 25): "Behold, the men whom you put in prison, and have sent for to your bar, are now hard by you here, standing in the temple, under your nose and in defiance of you, teaching the people. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
How unusual and refreshing it is to witness individuals so unbeholden to busy. Lynn Casteel Harper: The Elimination Of Busy: The Spiritual Discipline Of Being Present
Behold him now, his huge body astride of an enormous horse -- for, although the grenadier was a foot-soldier, he could still ride after a fashion -- plodding along through the mud and the wet and the cold on the mission which, if successful, would perhaps enable Napoleon to save the army and France, to say nothing of his throne and his family. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo
First off, what was immediately shocking to me was that I wasn't even aware of Luwian tawa- 'eye' when I supplied the value of 'to see, to behold' and also 'to make see; to show' to the apparent verb root *tau. The Minoan word for 'eye'
His breastplate was the aegis, awful to behold; his bird was the eagle, his tree the oak.
No one beholding the proud bearing of the new monarch would have supposed that his family emblem, the lowly broom-plant (_Planta genista_), from which came the name Plantagenet, had been adopted by an ancestor of Richard's in token of humility. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds
There was a certain insolent quality in her beauty, as if it flaunted itself somewhat too defiantly in the beholder's eye. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
His face was not a pleasant sight to behold.
I behold the _corozo_ -- of the same genus with the _palma real_ -- its light feathery frondage streaming outwards and bending downwards, as if to protect from the hot sun the globe-shaped nuts that hang in grape-like clusters beneath. The Rifle Rangers
The commies in the former USSR and present day China wanted to communize America, and put a sinister plan in place decades ago that consisted of promoting pornography and excessive video game playing to corrupt our youth and make us all beholden to "Big Brother" government. You said it | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
But it is very fine, and gives the beholder the idea of vastness, which seems harder to attain than anything else. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.

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