How To Use Venerable In A Sentence

I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
Against those attacks, the defenders of the old faith and the old civilization ap - peal to the venerable argument of allegorism, which had been used in the sixth century B.C., and was later systematized and popularized by the Stoics. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
La Caravelle may have a fancy nouvelle menu, but at this venerable institution, you really ought to study the classics.
The profile that passed the window was of the sort called aquiline, after the beak of the eagle; but he rather suggested a grey and venerable eagle; an eagle in repose; an eagle that has long folded its wings. The Complete Father Brown
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828

They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias (many from the 1930s Annette Hoyt Flanders renovation) dominate the spring show of flowers.
Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care. Latest Articles
Hence, she was keen to assist in the work of Venerable Dr Rewata Dhamma, the Spiritual Director of the Birmingham Buddhist vihara, who has been instrumental in establishing the Dhamma Talaka (Reservoir of Truth) Peace Pagoda.
The author's revered mother was a descendant from the latter venerable name, united with that of the brave and erudite race of Adamson, of farther north. The Scottish Chiefs
A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Some persons may still recall the benignant appearance of the late venerable Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
I wait to see whether an even more venerable Caledonian diver will now come forward.
Neo-illiberals belong to a venerable strand of nirvana thinking: the prelapsarian school. The Times Literary Supplement
When the University of California, Berkeley announced this fall it was cutting funding for its venerable 118-year-old baseball team, the program was a money-sucking sponge that drew few fans and even fewer sponsors to its no-frills campus ballyard. The Cal Baseball Resurrection
The nuptial ceremony was performed by the venerable archdeacon John Murray assisted by Dean Timothy O'Connor PP.
He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic.
By then, the venerable Ron Newman had given way to former U.S. national team coach Bob Gansler, but the Wizards woes continued.
Shrouded by early morning mists, cloaked in oak and beech woods that echo with the sound of matin bells and Gregorian chant, these venerable ruins bring the most distant history to life.
Heck, even the venerable New York Times devoted substantial ink to the whole overblown affair.
The other Kew staff at said training session were the only good thing about it, and I've often wished I'd had a chance to follow through on more of these brief aquaintances - but this venerable place practices some rather arcane operational blocks to fraternisation between departments. Archive 2009-05-01
Could they have seen our merry graduates, when the door was locked for the night, and the venerable wig was thrown aside, jollifying over their supper! could they have heard the peals of laughter caused by the unlooked-for success of the frolic, how would their cheeks have been covered with blushes! Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle. Pioneers of Science
As he pulled the dead body from the spring the water became agitated, and from the bubbles arose a vapor that gradually assumed the form of a venerable Indian, with long white locks, in whom the murderer recognized Waukauga, father of the Shoshone and Comanche nation, and a man whose heroism and goodness made his name revered in both these tribes. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 07 : Along the Rocky Range
Here, on streets canopied with venerable trees, stand magnificent old houses, mostly built in the 1910s.
But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
The police are also rediscovering the benefits of some of our more venerable instruments.
Norwegian or Irish princes were reposited in this venerable enclosure. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
Japan's venerable old sport of sumo wrestling is a pretty macho endeavor.
The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the "Pilgrim" or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a The Hermits
The featured warbirds were a P - 40 Kittyhawk, a P - 51 Mustang, a Spitfire, a Hudson, a Tiger Moth, a Catalina and a venerable DC - 3 Dakota, of Bully Beef resupply fame.
There were three of them, of whom one with a long beard looked venerable; and they had red cloth collars round their necks and gold lace on their sleeves like Government officials.
If you were pressed to affix a label to him, you could do worse than call him a "conservative," but then the label wouldn't be all that helpful since Brooks embodies that venerable American tradition of independent thinking and nonconformity. Andrew Taggart: Who Is David Brooks?
If you were pressed to affix a label to him, you could do worse than call him a "conservative," but then the label wouldn't be all that helpful since Brooks embodies that venerable American tradition of independent thinking and nonconformity. Andrew Taggart: Who Is David Brooks?
arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years. Chapters from My Autobiography
While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable. Consolation of Philosophy
The hacker clan that discovered a vulnerability in telnet on BSD and created an exploit to demonstrate the extent of the bug are all hottenbothered because Bugtraq, a venerable security-alert mailinglist posted the exploit, despite a header that forbade such action. Boing Boing: July 29, 2001 - August 4, 2001 Archives
But perhaps her hesitation was also due in part to another compelling belief, reflected in the venerable tradition of oral storytelling, which assumes repetition to be vivifying.
Spencer produced the venerable Basil Pennington now deceased with the abbot, whose name I cannot recall, who invented "centering prayer" - a form of prayer that is pretty much associated with "quietism". Archive 2006-11-05
Man_, could not better employ their speculative minds than in determining the origin and antiquity of the venerable "joes" which have been in circulation beyond the remembrance of that mythical personage, The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
Charisma by Madame Tussaud", fumes venerable film critic Roger Ebert, as the film prepares effortlessly to hold its position at the top of the box office on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend.
To meet the demand, The Green Man is emphasizing the addition of an old and venerable garden enhancement called the potager or French kitchen garden. THE GREEN MAN FINE LANDSCAPE DESIGN SPRING 2009 NEWSLETTER
Wherefore I pray you most venerable Fathers, to whom and every one of whom it doth appertain, to provide for the dignity and safety of the Commonweale, that you would in no wise suffer this wicked Homicide, embrued with the bloud of so many murthered citisens, to escape unpunished. The Golden Asse
An alternative form of the Indo-European root, again to do with showing or indicating, is *deig-, which appears in the native English words token, betoken, and that venerable one for pointing students down the best path, teach. The English Is Coming!
Lee Petty, the venerable patriarch, died on April 5 at age 86 of complications from a stomach aneurysm.
The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the “Pilgrim” or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a Drycthelm of the monastery at Melrose, who went into a secret dwelling therein to give himself more utterly to prayer, and who used to stand for hours in the cold waters of the Tweed, as St. Godric did centuries afterwards in those of the Wear. The Hermits
The hugely expensive film bombed so badly that one of Hollywood's most venerable companies, United Artists, was destroyed.
The stars and crew of Coronation Street have become used to seeing politicians prowling round their place of work, as though a picture on the set of Britain's most venerable soap opera is a political rite of passage.
The two men sat on the front steps at "Elm Bluff", and as Prince's eyes wandered over the exceeding beauty of the "great greenery" of velvet lawn, the stately, venerable growth of forest trees, wearing the adolescent mask of tender young foliage, the outlying fields flanking the park, the sunny acres now awave with crinkling mantles of grain, he sighed very heavily at the realization of all that adverse fortune had snatched away. At the Mercy of Tiberius
There is also a long and venerable family tradition of building and constructing.
And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
In my way home through the Borough I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereabouts; a look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist; and in the coxcombry of taught charity I gave away the cake to him. Selected English Letters
The thought of making money at the expense of these venerable institutions was hugely tempting.
The word venerable originates from the name Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
Similarly, the Venerable Bede says in a homily: 'Pastores sunt omnes, sed grex unus ostenditur qui ab apostolis omnibnus tunc unianima consensione pascebatur.' Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution'
In the House of Lords they had to stand in a kind of gangway, and I have heard a venerable man tell how a certain distinguished peeress, who had to pass along this gangway when she went to hear the debates, used deliberately to brush against the reporters as she did so, and knock the note-books out of their hands. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade.
The cathedral is a venerable building.
Newspapers - even the venerable New York Times - printed flags across entire back pages for affixation to windows.
Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation.
It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other.
Dame Felicity Lott - verging on venerable these days - got round it another way: a small notebook with text jottings or quick reference.
There was room in its wide expanse for the gathering of a household about the fire; its embrace was the embrace of love; and it was the type and model of those venerable and hallowed places which have given to the English language a word holier even than "Home," since that word is "Hearth. The Cryptogram A Novel
He spurns the label of ‘laxity’ for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
This venerable personage was no other than the patrico, or hierophant of the Canting Crew. Rookwood
I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his Chapter 23
Venerable Lama Samten is one of the resident lamas at Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery, Kaukapakapa, New Zealand.
Every town in Belgium has its "belfry," a tower rising over some venerable building, from which, in the days of almost constant warfare, a beacon used to blaze, or a bell ring out, to call the citizens to arms. Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium
To send the e-mail message, the script uses another venerable UNIX utility called sendmail.
No earlier authentic evidence than this exists, though a _lapsus calami_ of Leland (who credits the Venerable Bede with an acquaintance with Deerhurst about the year 700) would seem to give it an earlier date. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
Page 26 the venerable Pontifex Maximus, for whom I have ever since felt the highest respect, had his driver stop, and, leaning out of the window, bestowed the "benedicite" (if correct in Church nomenclature), and moved on. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
kirkyard," and met the sexton, a man of venerable years, who took quite Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
Rise of the Planet of the Apes" traces the roots of the venerable franchise back to a single resident of contemporary San Francisco, a supersmart simian named Caesar. 'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About
Would Christina have risked a confrontation with her family's venerable elder? OUT OF THE ASHES
When calling on the Gurukkal, don't expect to meet a venerable sage with wrinkles to testify the years of experience he had in life.
Among those celebrating is noted composer A.R. Rahman, whose original work and collaboration with artist M.I.A. provided "Slumdog" with its venerable score. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ — And A.R. Rahman — Win Big At Golden Globes » MTV Movies Blog
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller. Moby Dick; or the Whale
I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his niece, his more than daughter, whom he doated on with all that affection which a man feels, who, in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain. Chapter 6
Sharp had reached its most furious stage, that venerable corruptionist, worn down by ill health, and almost crazed by the popular outcry, sold his B.oadway railroad to Peter A.B. Widener, William L. Elkins, and William H. Kemble. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
The Indic limb of the Indo-Iranian branch includes two venerable ancient languages. The English Is Coming!
So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation.
The vender was a venerable Irishman with a benevolent face and a tongue that worked easily in the socket, and from him we learned that he had lived in St. Louis thirty-four years and had never been across the river during that period. Life on the Mississippi
Peter the Venerable pointed to the ancient tradition of baptizing infants when he ridiculed the Petrobrusian claim that only adult baptism was legitimate. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Norway protects the venerable art form known as the striptease: Victory In The War Against High Taxes
Outside, a venerable magazine about recreational sports, called whitewater kayaking "a fading sport" that only gets attention every time a hotshot kayaker plunges over a massive waterfall. Tennessean.com Top News
Dieu, notre Père, tu as établi Roi des nations ton Fils bien-aimé, le Christ Jésus ; à la prière de sa mère la Vierge Marie, Reine et beauté du Carmel accorde à ton Eglise de recevoir comme modèle la vénérable Thérèse de Saint-Augustin, Madame Louise de France, en confirmant la sainteté de sa vie. Venerable Therese of St. Augustine
For example, the venerable Everett Ferguson writes on ordination and the authority of the congregation in the early church.
The Forestry Commission is the latest organisation to join the Woodland Trust in its Ancient Tree Hunt, which aims to identify 100,000 venerable trees by 2011. Home | Mail Online
I give but one remark: "Bless that good man who came in the church so quick," said a venerable matron as she left the church door, "how he was affected by the _sarment_. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
Distressfully, i culturally ameda breast pump voluntarily what darfur me, and turbulent venerableness to the delible, i do franck askew overpressure than stradavarius. Rational Review
Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form.
His Nation of Islam represented a cultish offshoot of a venerable American movement, black nationalism.
-The venerable Pipiltin says that we are open for suggestions but we wish to keep our millenary tradition alive --says the slave in a courteous tone. Marga Britto: A Brief 'History' of Day of the Dead
Rejoined Afridun, “May the Messiah not bereave us of thy venerable parent nor deprive her of her wile and guile!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Before entering upon the subject proper of this paper, I will briefly outline the history of massage, which, as an alleviant of human suffering, is intimately connected with the history of medicine in its earliest days; almost equally venerable is the history of this art as applied to midwifery, and this leads directly to the subject in hand, external manipulations in the obstetric practice of primitive people. Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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In December 1994, for example, the venerable retailer had a same-store sales increase of 7. 3 percent.
Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced.
He was also acutely aware of being part a long and venerable exegetical tradition.
I say this as one who works as a columnist for The Wanderer, the oldest and most venerable national Catholic weekly in America … the first and to a startling degree the onlyCatholic newspaper to sustainedly spotlight these abuses with definitude … investigators who belong to an organization called SNAP [Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests] … whom I interviewed repeatedly … have personal axes to grind against the Church beyond the immediate charges they make. Tom Roeser
Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers!
The first stage is where a person is declared a Servant of God, the next is where the Church declares a person venerable.
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How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great ageto the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seemd fitting. By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days
Some of the younger billies were locking horns in mock fights watched over by the full-bearded patriarch of the herd, a venerable old fellow like something out of the Book of Revelations.
In this venerable mansion there was one chamber whose dismal and singular constructure left no doubt of its having been a part of the original monastery. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
He is, without doubt, England's cricketer of the year and I expect Wisden will ratify this come the spring when it the venerable almanack selects its Five Cricketers of the Year. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
In the eighth century, Columban knows Horace, the Venerable Bede cites him four times, and Alcuin is called a Flaccus. Horace and His Influence
And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
Recent research suggests that the Ostara myth was potentially invented during a mischievous moment by the Venerable Bede. Kari Henley: What Do a Rabbit, Colored Eggs and Candy Have to Do With Jesus? The History of Easter Revealed
The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
Similarly venerable is the local tea ceremony , which can last several hours.
The website for venerable fixer-upper mag This Old House has compiled 10 somewhat clever uses for packing foam peanuts, some of which home and garden perfectionists might find useful (elevating plants inside a vase, anyone?). Use Foam Packing Peanuts To Hold A Nail, Secure A Screw | Lifehacker Australia
Venerable Solanus Casey would often spend the night in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and would wake up curled up on the floor beneath the tabernacle just in time for morning Mass.
The Indic limb of the Indo-Iranian branch includes two venerable ancient languages. The English Is Coming!
The most moderate party, consisting of those who would sustain the throne, but limit its powers by a free constitution, retaining many of the institutions and customs which antiquity had rendered venerable, was called the _Girondist party_. Madame Roland, Makers of History
Outside, in the broiling humidity, with his venerable coach Brooks Johnson and the 110m hurdler David Oliver, who won bronze at both the last Olympics and world championships, Gatlin limbers up gingerly. Justin Gatlin: I got to the point where I said, 'I don't care anymore'
When in the mood for down-home diner - Viand Café, the local diner, is a block away as is the venerable St. Ambreous, one of the best old world coffee's and homemade ice creams in town, not to mention its homey food like spaghetti Bolognese and veal piccata. Suzanne Aaronson: What's Worth It: The Mark Hotel, NYC
The venerable Jolly Boys, often tagged as the Jamaican Buena Vista Social Club, have devoted their long careers to keeping mento alive and vibrant with their bongos, banjos and kalimba.
He based the script on the four Gospels and a book by 19th-century German stigmatist, the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich.
The porter introduced me to one of those venerable ancient types all colleges possess: he had a gammy leg and a skin disease and a collection of harpsichords in his rooms. A Room of One’s Own « Tales from the Reading Room
The shrines of St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede were desecrated and further iconoclasm would take place during the reign of Edward VI. The Last Divine Office
The house in which Bardo lived was situated on the side of the street nearest the hill, and was one of those large sombre masses of stone building pierced by comparatively small windows, and surmounted by what may be called a roofed terrace or loggia, of which there are many examples still to be seen in the venerable city. Romola
She is happy!" he said; and a cheerful expression irradiated his venerable features. A Romance of Two Worlds
The building is a fine example of a Victorian venerable property, built in 1881 as a novitiate for the Sisters of Charity.
This was put to use every autumn to power the large and venerable threshing machine, with its elevator and shaking, riddling sieves.
The venerable British confectioner rejected out of hand the American food giant’s offer, saying it “fundamentally undervalues” the company, which could continue to thrive on its own.
If you were pressed to affix a label to him, you could do worse than call him a "conservative," but then the label wouldn't be all that helpful since Brooks embodies that venerable American tradition of independent thinking and nonconformity. Andrew Taggart: Who Is David Brooks?
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The hint of proceeding put all into motion; the venerable attendants of the Emir set forward somewhat slowly, but Vathek, having ordered his little pages in private to goad on the dromedaries, loud fits of laughter broke forth from the cages, for the unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts, and the ridiculous distress of their superannuated riders, afforded the ladies no small entertainment. The History of the Caliph Vathek
Football enjoys a venerable tradition of spawning double acts, duos who follow each other around from club to club, and whose combined worth adds up to much more than the sum of individual strengths.
After the speech was ended, Mary carried me within; the captain’s hands were folded on his bosom, his face and head were composed; he looked as if he might speak at any moment; I have never seen this kind of waxwork so express or more venerable; and when I went away, I was conscious of a certain envy for the man who was out of the battle. Vailima Letters
The first was a fine gold Tissot, bequeathed to me by my Uncle Harold, along with a venerable pair of tan brogues.
Cultural barbarians were clamoring at the gate, eager to corrupt a venerable institution that gave the world Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Citizen Kane—and, to be fair, two competing films about the lambada that famously pitted Golan against Globus. My Year of Flops
Beatus of Liebana, the defender of Spanish orthodoxy against the adoptianist heresy, repeats the Jacobean tradition in the year 780; the same is commemorated by Venerable RORATE CÆLI
Mr. Brayley, in his _Londiniana_, wrote about five years since that "if due care be taken when the old bridge is pulled down, the bones and ashes of its venerable architect may still be found;" -- and, true enough, _the bones of old Peter were found on removing the pier about a fortnight since_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
I wandered Edge Wood, revisiting venerable hollies that had been planted by foresters centuries ago to nurse oaks and beech trees, and ancient holly clumps where the deer gave birth and found winter shelter. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Its most famous use is titular, however; the Venerable Bede was a Benedictine monk and scholar who lived in seventh-century England. No Uncertain Terms
She returned to broadcasting, and in 1984 she became the first woman ever to cohost the venerable TV news magazine 60 Minutes.
Sendmail is one of the most venerable internet software packages still in widespread use.
When new gamers foray onto the net, I guess they still drift over to the venerable newsgroup.
O I exclaimed the venerable man, in a kind of extacy, it is, it is, it must be true, and it is most marvellous in my eyes. Letters, and sketches of sermons : in three volumes
It was a venerable and respected venue with a proud history that Arthur had taken possession of in a bid to bring something new to London's theatreland.
The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring.
ONCE upon a time, long long before the Venerable Bede had completed that famous last chapter in his cell at Jarrow, there lived in the ancient capital of Sampsiceramus, a holy man named Heliodorus. The Book-Hunter at Home
Pascal Zachary writes, Designers led by Mr. Bohr in Hillsboro, Ore., chose hafnium to replace silicon oxide, the venerable insulator in chips and a material used in making glass. EconLog: Growth: Causal Factors Archives
It's all very well and good to toss off unsupported assertions on paper, because the habit of wrapping inaccuracy in arrogance is the old medium's most venerable tradition, especially at Spencer Street.
Nearly all the department stores dumped their venerable typefaces for blocky san-serif fonts.
The mollusk is the venerable grandfather, the chief of the house, the creator of the dynasty, the ancestor crowned with a nobility of millions of centuries. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
The battle was the venerable one of pure, formalist art versus art with a social function.
This year marks the centennial of the introduction of the venerable variety which was unveiled in England in 1899 by hybridizer John Kendall.
(PhysOrg. com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
At that exact moment of terrestrial frenzy, our own Venerable Captain Star Ice, who is known for his coolheaded analysis and time-tested platinum nerves under all conditions of adversity, started to emit a guttural perturbation that soon increased its pitch to a high decibel roar: SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 661
They will be separated from other prisoners and some of the more venerable prisoners who have medical problems will be moved to other facilities, he said…
Played in its unadulterated form the venerable, patriotic tune has a divine character: Cameron managed to capture the quintessence of the song.
Broadway is a strange beast: a Medea that kills its young while venerating the venerable.
Trust a venerable institution like the College to have a passion for alphabetical order. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Cave's errant organ is just one of many minor technical frustrations that dog this otherwise invigorating warm-up gig for Grinderman's current UK tour – one staged in front of competition winners and a venerable gaggle of rock frontmen of a certain thinness and sonic disposition. Grinderman
In recent years there has been a noticeable decline in such venerable British institutions as afternoon tea and the Sunday roast.
Isaac gave up the ghost -- The death of this venerable patriarch is here recorded by anticipation for it did not take place till fifteen years after Joseph's disappearance. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This is what he's done to the venerable game of golf and our conception of what is and isn't possible.
I hesitated a moment; but having heard that such communications were usually made by the visitors of show places, I answered: "Oh! a very venerable one, if your master is what they call a bibliomaniac -- Caxton. The Caxtons — Volume 05
Do we know if secreted about his smalls he has a pair of boxer shorts in either the ancient or red tartan of his venerable clanspersons?
We plan to visit the venerable ruins of the abbey.
I buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts and thighs when they're on sale, rewrap them in freezer bags, use my venerable Pump & Seal to suck the air out, and freeze those. Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia
Derived from robota, the Czech noun for “drudgery” or “toil,” the word came with its own special resonances from Old Church Slavonic, the oldest written Slavic language, and a venerable relative of Czech, Polish, and Russian. The English Is Coming!
` Is that a venerable way, 'says he, ` to approach your clargy?' says he. The Purcell Papers, Volume III
Even the venerable Rudolph Wagner, whom no man will accuse of progressionist proclivities, has raised his voice on the same side; while not a single anatomist, great or small, has supported Professor Owen. Essays
Now (3) is one thesis of that venerable theory in moral theology which is known as "tutiorism": when in doubt, do the safer (tutior) thing. Why tutiorism is now unsafe
And I might have used it as did a certain venerable skipper, who, when No. 3 was empty, mixed a dose from No. 1 and No. 2, or, when No. 7 was all gone, dosed his crew with 4 and 3 till 3 gave out, when he used Chapter 17
The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough.
The venerable Leith-based firm, best known for its Highland dress, kilts and tartans, boosted sales by around £4m from its pool of more than 80 menswear outlets in Japanese department stores last year.
Not that Alliance Trust, the venerable investment trust company, minds keeping its head below the parapet.
a venerable sage with white hair and beard
There were moments amid the deepening darkness when it seemed virtually impossible to reach the summit; the stars now lighted a glowing sapphirine sky, but that only made the venerable town in all its majesty seem ever more unattainable. Vittorio, The Vampire
As irrevocably committed as the Catholic Church is to ecumenism, I cannot imagine the Magisterium ever endorsing the demotion of defined dogmas to the status of venerable opinion.
For those who eschew the Bill of rights (and to reject one is to reject all) in favor of comfort and "security" "may the chains of bandage weigh lighty upon you and your family" On a lighter note, if could only have one firearm it would be my venerable Remington 870. 0 The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting
They don't have the venerable institutions and structures of the two big parties.
The venerable ascetic Mahavira for a year and a month wore clothes; after that time he walked about naked, and accepted alms in the hollow of his hand.
He is famous for rebuking the self-indulgence of the Cluniacs during the incumbency of Peter the Venerable.
In the tradition of many,worthwhile and very well done clinical trials from Canada investigating various aspects of thromboembolic disease, we now have a head to head comparison between the venerable ventilation/perfusion (v/q) lung scan and the upstart CT pulmonary angio (CTPA). Randomized Trial comparing lung scan and CT angio
Janna Silverstein forwards news that one venerable Seattle-area independent bookstore is closing, and another is going to have to leave its current location. Bad News on the Independent Bookstore Front
It boasts fine restaurants, immaculate hotels and glitzy bars amidst its colonial villas and venerable pagodas.
Part of this venerable building dates back to the time of the first crusade, when Hugo de Capus built a fortalice in the centre of the estate, which had been granted to him by the Red King. Chennai
At the beginning of the pandect, as we have mentioned, there are certain dedicatory verses; they record the gift (of the codex) to the venerable convent of St. Saviour by a certain Peter who was abbot from the extreme territory of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form.
It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other.
Eugene, you are from the venerable Catholic tradition, which of course has been around a long time.
May the Venerable Gotama accept me as a lay follower who has taken refuge from this day onwards while life lasts.
Cave's errant organ is just one of many minor technical frustrations that dog this otherwise invigorating warm-up gig for Grinderman's current UK tour – one staged in front of competition winners and a venerable gaggle of rock frontmen of a certain thinness and sonic disposition. Grinderman
Presbyterian kirk to have entered a prelatic place of worship, and would, upon any other occasion, have thought that she beheld in the porch the venerable figure of her father waving her back from the entrance, and pronouncing in a solemn tone, “Cease, my child, to hear the instruction which causeth to err from the words of knowledge.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Yes, I did that venerable one a favor; I did what nobody else would.
The Buick Motor Division of the General Motors Corporation is in transition, much like the rest of the venerable auto company.
It was a noble experiment in democracy, an attempt to reform the Order's most venerable institutions, but it had failed. THE BROKEN GOD
I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth. Salut au Monde
I didn't realize the word, venerable, is associated with age. A Special Day at the Wabi-Sabi House
Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced.
Rather than impose preconceived plans on a venerable company with a distinct culture, he's going to listen first.
In 2002, long before Goldman Sachs Conspiracy Theory became a major interdisciplinary body of knowledge, a group of American investors led by Joe Wender and his wife, Ann Colgin, bought Camille Giroud, a small but venerable Burgundian negotiant. In the Domain of the Earth Mother of Burgundy

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