How To Use Beholding In A Sentence
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The bride elect held her head very erect; the red spots in her cheeks glowed like double peonies; her two thin curls, done in oil for the occasion, hung straight and stiff like pendant icicles nigrescent; her sparkling black eyes looked apparently into vacuity, while they were really beholding the acme of all her hopes.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You
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I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retszch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.
The Man of the Crowd
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But she looked again, guiltily, for the joy that was hers in beholding what she knew must be sinful to behold.
Chapter 4
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I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.
Tales.
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The lady, beholding this and seeing herself alone, fell into that same appetite which had gotten hold of her nuns, and arousing Masetto, carried him to her chamber, where, to the no small miscontent of the others, who complained loudly that the gardener came not to till the hortyard, she kept him several days, proving and reproving that delight which she had erst been wont to blame in others.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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But we must remember that the dull vision of mortal man cannot pierce the veil of futurity, which is as crystal to the all-beholding eye of the First
The Skylark of Space
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She beholding the witnesse standing by, who was also present at her receyving them: durst not make deniall, but thus answered.
The Decameron
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I feel a particular pleasure in beholding the great favours our Lord bestows upon you, by employing you in such good works: I was also quite pleased to receive the poor young woman.
The Letters of St. Teresa
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At that time all England beholding your most honorable cariage of your selfe in that so weightie seruice, began to cast an extraordinarie eie vpon your lordship, and deeply to conceiue that singular hope which since by your most worthie & wonderfull seruice, your L. hath more then fully satisfied.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord.
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As such the film evokes the pleasure of beholding an actor perform a part with nothing forced in it, one that Michael Caine dons like a favorite suit.
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Instead of sending him, as it is customary to send culprits, in the boats to witness the execution of his shipmates, he ordered him into his cabin, and having represented in the mildest and most feeling terms the heinousness of the crime which he was known to have committed, he assured him that it was his intention to spare him the anguish he must endure of beholding his late companions suffering the last penalty of the law for the very crime of which he had been guilty.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
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Mammy sighed resignedly, beholding herself outguessed.
Gone with the Wind
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I could not bear to think of losing it, of never again beholding Kona.
The Sheriff of Kona
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…Fill thy spirit with the ghostly bemeaning of it without any special beholding to any of His works—whether they be good, better, or best of all.
Born to Believe
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the _Gandiva_ as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from _Kamyaka_) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.
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They crowded into the doorway while little Jimmy gazed upward, his expression suffused with such undisguised wonder that he might have been beholding one of Nature’s marvels: the snowcapped peaks of the mighty Rocky Mountains, for example, or the roaring cataracts of Niagara.
Nevermore
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For once, my Victorian reading came to the rescue, and I realized that what I was beholding was none other than the remains of an old custom no longer in use, the echo of an era when the homes of the wealthy had mannequins made to measure for different members of the family, used for tailoring their dresses and trousseaux.
The Shadow of the Wind
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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
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The aspect of the whole band may be described in the language of Sandy Black, who, beholding his friends after the fray, remarked that they were all "dirty and drookit.
The Settler and the Savage
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Never had any doctrine or reading of canon law prevented him from beholding a religion's pure and numinous core.
THE BROKEN GOD
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It is particolored and it shimmers; it is lovely to behold and even lovelier to imagine beholding.
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Beholding that chastiser of foes made steedless and driverless,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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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
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[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
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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
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The only good of worldly riches to the possessor is the beholding them with the eyes.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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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
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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
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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
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Marechal, beholding this, passed suddenly from unbelief to perfect faith in aerostatics and in the capacity of the human mind, fell on his knees, and, with his eyes bathed in tears, moaned out pitifully the words,
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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Beholding that feat of Shalya and reflecting upon the fact that the hero who had been allotted to him as his share still remained unslain, the son of Pandu firmly set his heart upon accomplishing that which
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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It will be so from that visive power or faculty of beholding the glory of Christ which we shall then receive.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
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But if you have still enough of human feeling (or, as my husband would call it, '"Minerva Press" tendency') about you, to feel yourself commoved by such phenomena, it may interest you to know that, on opening your letter the other day, and beholding the little 'feminine contrivance' inside, I suddenly and unaccountably fell a-crying, as if I had gained a loss.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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One of these is to drive ten nails into the door in a pentagonal form -- a very effectual barrier; for the doppie, on beholding it, can neither advance nor recede, but remains there literally spell-bound till the witching-time of night is past, vainly endeavouring to reckon the number of nails, but unable to get beyond the fifth.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852