How To Use Reverently In A Sentence
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Wearing simple habits of black tunics, hooded scapulars, and long-sleeved cuculas or robes, the monks walk reverently through a glass-lined hallway - called a slype - that connects the monastery and the church, then bow before the altar, and take their places in high-backed choir stalls where they pray, sing, chant, and recite the liturgy.
Sunday Reading
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Meanwhile, railing judgments, though spoken with truth, against dignities, as being uttered irreverently, are of the nature of "blasphemies" (Greek, 1Co 4: 4, 5).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The Wanderers of other sects hereupon reverently saluted the Lord from afar, and went off on their way.
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The old didapper," began Bildad, somewhat irreverently, "infested this here house about twenty year.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Our prayer is that this will bring back many ofthe clergy and lay faithful who have gravitated to schismatic groups in reaction to serious abuses committed bysome priests who have irreverently celebrated the new Mass in English since the Vatican II.
Archive 2007-08-01
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These broken instruments of fertility were afterwards reverently wrapt up and buried in the earth or in subterranean chambers sacred to Cybele, where, like the offering of blood, they may have been deemed instrumental in recalling Attis to life and hastening the general resurrection of nature, which was then bursting into leaf and blossom in the vernal sunshine.
Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
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After a hectic day of bickering and money-making, the gang reverently enters an elaborate boardroom where Trump presides.
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She stood up and returned the picks to their sack; then carefully - almost reverently - replaced the koto on the shelf.
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Let us now very reverently examine ourselves as we partake of the bread and wine.
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He speaks reverently about his fans and their dedication to his music, and he's a genuine crowd-pleaser when it comes to playing the songs they want to hear.
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Although irreverently trivialized in the Western world -- perceived by outsiders as uncultivated or lacking structure -- dances like Lamba from the Bambara people of Mali could rival any French derived Grand rond de jambe.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop
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A doblon, with the head of Carlos Tercero, hung round his neck, and was ever in his hand, being reverently kissed every few miles.
Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Almost reverently I unwrapped the package carefully to find a small beautifully carved wooden box.
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In the three months since the election, Clinton and Republican leaders have repeatedly and even reverently recited the appropriate rhetoric.
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As soon as this is begun, the queen rises from her faldstool, and, being supported by the two bishops, and attended as before, goes up to the theatre: as she approaches the king, she bows herself reverently to his majesty sitting upon his throne; and so is conducted to her own throne on the left hand of the king, where she reposes till the anthem is ended.
Coronation Anecdotes
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It was the althea-bud that grew in the summer-time of eighteen years ago, that had been Mary's, -- and my heart beat fast as I looked upon the silent voicefulness that spake up to me, and said, "To you, who have restored him to himself, he offers the same tribute;" and I lifted up the iridescent, flashing cradle of margarite, and reverently touched the ashes of althea it held with my lips.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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She pushed her chair back from the window, replaced the diary reverently in her lockbox, and forced herself from reverie to motion.
PAINT THE WIND
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They were reverently acceptive of every Victorian formula.
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For the foot-fetichist, on the other hand, the foot or the shoe is not a mere instrument, but a true symbol; the focus of his worship, an idealized object which he is content to contemplate or reverently touch.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.
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We feel as if treading on forbidden ground -- and therefore speak reverently; but still we do not fear to say, that between that highest state of contemplative piety which must be mute, down to that lowest state of the same feeling which evanishes and blends into mere human emotion as between creature and creature, there are infinite degrees of emotion which may be all embodied, without offence, in words -- and if so embodied, with sincerity and humility, will be poetry, and poetry too of the most beautiful and affecting kind.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Next came my diamond hoop earrings, my Tiffany tourmaline cuff bracelet, my grossularite and platinum brooch—one by one, almost reverently, I opened the lids and laid the jewelry boxes on the shelf.
Skipping a Beat
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in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used
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There are some that detest them as a kind of sacrilege and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions.
In Praise of Folly
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With an indrawn breath she reverently slid the priceless parchment from its resting place.
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Quoth answering earth, "Bend low; For a earth," Before a lover lover lies here and waits for Hades-tombed bend reverently. "the Resurrection Day.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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His hands folded reverently, he appeared calm and prayerful, despite the repeated flick of his eyes towards the back of the church.
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Jeanie courtesied reverently and withdrew, attended by the
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The title track, which opens the album, slowly introduces the multiple elements of this work, reverently contrasting them to establish a perfect balance of impressions.
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he gazed reverently at the handiwork
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Hatch meanwhile reverently doffed his salet and knelt down.
The Black Arrow
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Then, what can only be described as a sea of flowers, was laid all around, each floral tribute reverently placed by a member of the Civil Defence.
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Most conversations that established coherence amid the onsetting din of mass-slurring hung reverently on these figures.
Alibi Weblog
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Rarely shown and unavailable on video, independent cinema aficionados speak of it reverently.
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the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell
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Statues of unknown saints looked gravely down from their alcoves as Jacques and Marie-Christine knelt reverently before the altar.
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It is reverently displayed and enraptures the museum's Russian visitors.
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And thus, kneeling upon the flower-sprent turf hand in hand and with heads reverently bowed, they were wed, while the six outlaws stared in silent awe and the meek ass cropped the grass busily.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold.
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And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone -- the gay young men 'larked' him irreverently, while the serious youth had a grave pity and wonder at him, which would have been even more painful to bear, had the old gentleman been aware of its extent.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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What remains after completion of the ritual is at once swept up and reverently dispersed.
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larked" him irreverently, whilst the serious youth had a grave pity and wonder at him; which would have been even more painful to bear, had the old gentleman been aware of its extent.
The History of Pendennis
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The women, generally married at fifteen, were old at thirty, and such was the intensity of life in this "water-logged town" -- as F. Hopkinson Smith somewhat irreverently called it upon one occasion -- that a traveller was led to remark: _On ne goûte pas ses plaisirs, on les avale.
Women of the Romance Countries
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Her day has been celebrated most reverently every year, and the day of her translation has been particularly blessed.
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When I turned around again the young lady had somehow osmosed out of her clothes, which were right there on the car seat looking like she had simply passed through the cloth, and there she was in all her glory, and I mean that most seriously and reverently, believe me!
OpEdNews - Diary: On Women, Love, Sex and Art
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Kneeling down he reverently happed him in afresh, then rising with a heart contented, whistled triumphant as a pibroch, and took the airt of
Border Ghost Stories
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This Bach is not as reverently worshiped, it is adored with coyness, sparkle, and a twinkling eye.
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His grave in Amiens cemetery is reverently maintained and restaurants all over the city offer ‘Jules Verne menus’!
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The price of fame
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He'd pull the shirt out of the bag reverently and comment on its features.
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“‘With sandals beaten from the crowns of kings,’” Leo added, murmuring the words reverently, loving them with his lips as his lips formed them and uttered them.
CHAPTER XXIX
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The two churches of Vaccarizza, dark and unclean structures, stand side by side, and I was shown through them by their respective priests, Greek and Catholic, who walked arm in arm in friendly wise, and meekly smiled at a running fire of sarcastic observations on the part of another citizen directed against the "bottega" in general -- the _shop, _ as the church is sometimes irreverently called.
Old Calabria
