"Reverential" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Was the world flooded with a serene and tender light? Was the moaning ocean filled with the wondrous music of immortal love and longing, reaching out to glad fruition? Was that sudden rare peace, creating a reverential atmosphere about him, an earnest of days to come? He experienced a vivid lightness as if he were being borne on clouds, while fragments of delicious remembrances floated through his brain. The very refinement of his nature seemed to ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... that carolled there, Sat down upon a post, And with a reverential caw, Gave up its ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... before the palace of the Duke of Courland, and with an humble and reverential mien Munnich ascended the stairs to the brilliant apartments ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach
... philosophic quite, and began to regale the two friends with some curious circumstances relating to the private history of the several prisoners, as they happened to come in. At length a gentleman entered; at sight of whom the clergyman rose up, and saluted him with a most reverential bow, which was graciously returned by the stranger, who, with a young man that attended him, retired to the other end of the room. They were no sooner out of hearing, than the communicative priest desired his company to take ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... many preachers since that time—not powerful; merely Christian, unaffected, and reverential—and I have had many such preachers on my roll of friends. But, it was not to hear these, any more than the powerful class, that I made my Sunday journeys. They were journeys of curiosity to the numerous churches in the City of London. ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
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