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  • One afternoon, Paul made his way to the venerable bank building in Altona's old town.†   (source)
  • Harry ate breakfast each morning in the Leaky Cauldron, where he liked watching the other guests: funny little witches from the country, up for a day's shopping; venerable-looking wizards arguing over the latest article in Transfiguration Today; wild-looking warlocks; raucous dwarfs; and once, what looked suspiciously like a hag, who ordered a plate of raw liver from behind a thick woollen balaclava.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bell was the retired chairman of the Savannah Bank, former president of the venerable Oglethorpe Club, and a respected historian.†   (source)
  • The Venerable Bede had once written that the hole in the Pantheon's roof had been bored by demons trying to escape the building when it was consecrated by Boniface IV.†   (source)
  • That night Finny began to talk abstractedly about it, as though it were a venerable, entrenched institution of the Devon School.†   (source)
  • These were awesome occasions worthy of the ancient silver service; the venerable great-uncles and —aunts and grandparents were Victorians, from their mother's side of the family, a baffled and severe folk, a lost tribe who arrived at the house in black cloaks having wandered peevishly for two decades in an alien, frivolous century.†   (source)
  • At base, it is a simple dichotomy: there are the coerlfolc, the teeming mass of common people who make up humanity's great bulk, and there is the hidden branch—the crypto-sapiens, if you will—who are called syndrigast, or "peculiar spirit" in the venerable language of my ancestors.†   (source)
  • ANNE DE LARMESSIN — KITSEY'S godmother—was hosting our party at a private club which even Hobie had never set foot in, but knew all about: its history (venerable), its architects (illustrious), and its membership (stellar, running the gamut from Aaron Burr to the Whartons).†   (source)
  • "The Very Longe Poeme of the Venerable Mariner" was one of them.†   (source)
  • Don Baithazar thought that the venerable Daton was a fraud, that Salmud Brevy and Robert Frost should have hanged themselves with their own entrails, that Wordsworth was a fool, and that anything less than Shakespeare's sonnets was a profanation of the language.†   (source)
  • Unquestionably they were five of the greatest architects America had produced, but of the five, three were from the land of "unclean beasts" itself: George B. Post, Charles McKim, and Richard M. Hunt, the nation's most venerable architect.†   (source)
  • He regarded sermons as interesting only to venerable relics like his mother and me.†   (source)
  • The more venerable families, especially, cling to the old times, when Downworlders were for killing.†   (source)
  • Her stylish attire did not seem appropriate for a venerable grandmother, but it suited her figure--long-boned and still slender and erect, her resilient hands without a single age spot, her steel-blue hair bobbed on a slant at her cheek.†   (source)
  • Although she realized that the monk had to be Alberto Knox, she regretted her outburst in this venerable place f worship.†   (source)
  • Just after 9:00 she walked two blocks to the venerable Zimmertal Hotel, where she booked a room in Monica Sholes' name.†   (source)
  • Green fumbled, and seemed to accidentally shut the Bible, whereupon the visiting legal dignitaries grinned and nudged each other, for this was a venerable court-room ploy-the lawyer who while reading from the Scriptures pretends to lose his place, and then remarks, as Green now did, "Never mind.†   (source)
  • Although the role of chief was a venerable and esteemed one, it had, even seventy-five years ago, become debased by the control of an unsympathetic white government.†   (source)
  • Rosemont was there, waiting to meet Seabiscuit in the venerable Brooklyn Handicap.†   (source)
  • Venerable he seemed as a king crowned with many winters, and yet hale as a tried warrior in the fulness of his strength.†   (source)
  • …of Rome, where he was wounded in the eye by a flower fired at him from close range by a seedy, cackling, intoxicated old man, who, like Satan himself, had then bounded up on Major — de Coverley's car with malicious glee, seized him roughly and contemptuously by his venerable white head and kissed him mockingly on each cheek with a mouth reeking with sour fumes of wine, cheese and garlic, before dropping back into the joyous celebrating throngs with a hollow, dry, excoriating laugh.†   (source)
  • It was a two-story venerable Victorian, old and weathered with peeling white paint and decades worth of vines sleeping along the doors and windows.†   (source)
  • One was an old, venerable white-haired guy with bifocals, another was some young brilliant Jewish guy, like one of the teachers he had at Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Her teachers wore full saris while the venerable headmistress, Mrs. Hood, wore a skirt.†   (source)
  • The council of war convened in his office as scheduled the next morning—three major generals, including the venerable Israel Putnam, and four brigadiers.†   (source)
  • A few feet away is the venerable old Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where a Klansman's bomb killed four little girls.†   (source)
  • And apparently—in spite of the fact that she was not yet thirty—Hazel Benson Boon had recently joined Rowan's most venerable faction of Mystics, the Promethean Scholars.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to study the history of South Carolina without encountering the venerable Huguenot name of St. Croix again and again.†   (source)
  • For the great priestesses, the venerable Druids, the noble pagans believed that here the spirits walked—†   (source)
  • It made him feel like an old-timer, venerable.†   (source)
  • But even the venerable Post, with its many sources inside the U.S. intelligence community, was unaware of the true nature of the peril hanging over the city.†   (source)
  • The place was crowded with people, most of them elderly, spooning their borscht and munching at potato pirogen; and a great noise of Yiddish—a venerable roar—filled the dank and redolent air with unfathomable gutturals, as of many wattled old throats gargling on chicken fat.†   (source)
  • I patted the scars, the stains on the venerable surface before me.†   (source)
  • Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.†   (source)
  • The hills falling away to Alexander, the railroad track cutting through the fields a half-mile back of the house, the rails gleaming like newly sheared tin, ties black and neat as a logical argument fully understood, the woods in the distance yellowgreen with spring, like the grass in the cemetery, and above the woods a sky of mottled clouds as pure and venerable as his father's stone.†   (source)
  • He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.   (source)
    venerable = respected (worthy of respect)
  • I pray you, my venerable brother, let not this thing be!   (source)
    venerable = respected
  • the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to its original beauty, and thus giving that impression of permanence which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment.   (source)
    venerableness = worthiness of respect and admiration (coming from age)
  • Good old Deacon Gookin had arrived, and waited at the skirts of that venerable saint, his revered pastor.   (source)
    venerable = respected
  • I must plead guilty to the charge of abbreviating the official breath of more than one of these venerable servants of the republic.   (source)
  • The venerable Father Wilson continued to step slowly onward, looking carefully at the muddy pathway before his feet, and never once turning his head towards the guilty platform.   (source)
  • More frequently, however, on ascending the steps, you would discern—in the entry if it were summer time, or in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers—a row of venerable figures, sitting in old-fashioned chairs, which were tipped on their hind legs back against the wall.   (source)
    venerable = elderly and respected
  • Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this venerable witch-lady had heard Mr. Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.   (source)
  • It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the new Surveyor was not a politician, and though a faithful Democrat in principle, neither received nor held his office with any reference to political services.   (source)
    venerable = long respected
  • Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.   (source)
    venerable = respected
  • Might it not, in the tedious lapse of official life that lay before me, finally be with me as it was with this venerable friend—to make the dinner-hour the nucleus of the day, and to spend the rest of it, as an old dog spends it, asleep in the sunshine or in the shade?   (source)
    venerable = elderly and respected
  • As the Reverend Mr. Wilson passed beside the scaffold, closely muffling his Geneva cloak about him with one arm, and holding the lantern before his breast with the other, the minister could hardly restrain himself from speaking— "A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson."   (source)
    venerable = a respectful form of address for a minister
  • The new abode of the two friends was with a pious widow, of good social rank, who dwelt in a house covering pretty nearly the site on which the venerable structure of King's Chapel has since been built.   (source)
    venerable = respected
  • But, on examining the papers which the parchment commission served to envelop, I found more traces of Mr. Pue's mental part, and the internal operations of his head, than the frizzled wig had contained of the venerable skull itself.   (source)
  • He, moving proudly past, enveloped as it were, in the rich music, with the procession of majestic and venerable fathers; he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him!   (source)
  • One of his clerical brethren—it was the venerable John Wilson—observing the state in which Mr. Dimmesdale was left by the retiring wave of intellect and sensibility, stepped forward hastily to offer his support.   (source)
  • In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.   (source)
  • This creed was never taught, for instance, by the venerable pastor, John Wilson, whose beard, white as a snow-drift, was seen over Governor Bellingham's shoulders, while its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalised in the New England climate, and that purple grapes might possibly be compelled to flourish against the sunny garden-wall.   (source)
  • The good old man addressed him with the paternal affection and patriarchal privilege which his venerable age, his upright and holy character, and his station in the church, entitled him to use and, conjoined with this, the deep, almost worshipping respect, which the minister's professional and private claims alike demanded.   (source)
  • Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.   (source)
    venerable = respected through time
  • Once more, therefore, the train of venerable and majestic fathers were seen moving through a broad pathway of the people, who drew back reverently, on either side, as the Governor and magistrates, the old and wise men, the holy ministers, and all that were eminent and renowned, advanced into the midst of them.   (source)
    venerable = respected
  • The old Inspector—who, by-the-bye, I regret to say, was overthrown and killed by a horse some time ago, else he would certainly have lived for ever—he, and all those other venerable personages who sat with him at the receipt of custom, are but shadows in my view: white-headed and wrinkled images, which my fancy used to sport with, and has now flung aside for ever.   (source)
  • In that old day the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence was strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age—on long-tried integrity—on solid wisdom and sad-coloured experience—on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gave the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability.   (source)
  • This was sufficient for me to judge of the bravery of my venerable and patriotic Adams.†   (source)
  • The news shows Mayor De Roos venerably bowing his head at a press conference.†   (source)
  • They come from a venerable sweet shop in my hometown, which is famous throughout the province.†   (source)
  • Quoth Siddhartha: "One thing, oh most venerable one, I have admired in your teachings most of all.†   (source)
  • Does it please the venerable one to listen to me for one moment longer?†   (source)
  • "As you please," the venerable one spoke politely.†   (source)
  • Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one?†   (source)
  • Never once had he imagined Dumbledore's childhood or youth; it was as though he had sprung into being as Harry had known him, venerable and silver-haired and old.†   (source)
  • The sister was coming at a sharp pace from her end of the ward, her heels resounding in the venerable space.†   (source)
  • Ever since the days when Willem was studying church history, I had remembered the venerable fourth-century church father, Eusebius.†   (source)
  • Some of the young ones turned into venerable patriarchs with so much haste that no one could explain how they had time to grow old.†   (source)
  • They also built a wooden dais for a woodwind band whose program was limited to contradances and national waltzes, and for a string quartet from the School of Fine Arts, which was Senora de Olivella's surprise for her husband's venerable teacher, who would preside over the luncheon.†   (source)
  • In the Plaza of the Cathedral, where the statue of The Liberator was almost hidden among the African palm trees and the globes of the new streetlights, traffic was congested because Mass had ended, and not a seat was empty in the venerable and noisy Parish Cafe.†   (source)
  • She behaved like what she was, a girl ready to learn about life under the guidance of a venerable old man who was not shocked by anything, and he chose to behave like what he had most feared being in his life: a senile lover.†   (source)
  • When he was promoted to his first important position in the R.C.C., he had clothes made to order in the same style as those of his father, whom he recalled as an old man who had died at Christ's venerable age of thirty-three.†   (source)
  • So very venerable.†   (source)
  • He learned that they were of the Broadbrim clan, that their chieftain was the venerable Plumpka, and that the Broadbrims had driven off all the other goblins within the region.†   (source)
  • The old bookseller, knowing about Aureliano's love for books that had been read only by the Venerable Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testament, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour…†   (source)
  • He was interested, however, to hear that Dain was still King under the Mountain, and was now old (having passed his two hundred and fiftieth year), venerable, and fabulously rich.†   (source)
  • "My aged and venerable mother is drawing near the close of a virtuous and industrious life," he wrote to Nabby.†   (source)
  • It was a venerable profession.†   (source)
  • Nately's father — and everyone else's father Nately had ever met — was dignified, wise and venerable; this old man was utterly repellent, and Nately plunged back into debate with him, determined to repudiate his vile logic and insinuations with an ambitious vengeance that would capture the attention of the bored, phlegmatic girl he had fallen so intensely in love with and win her admiration forever.†   (source)
  • "Blessed St. Gabriel, St. Michael, and all the other saints," she continued in Amharic, confident he would understand, "for I prayed for master to be a new man, for him to one day give up his dooriye ways, but I was wrong, your venerable holinesses."†   (source)
  • Max gazed up at the venerable gray building with her shale roof and squat chimneys puffing white smoke into the wintry air.†   (source)
  • The upstart West had the new Santa Anita Handicap, but the East, seat of racing's elite governing bodies and home to all of America's venerable old races and stables, had prestige.†   (source)
  • It is an unnerving thing, but when I was underneath the water, gliding in that black chill, my mind's eye suddenly seemed to carry to a perspective high above, from where I could see the exacting, telling shapes of all: the spartan surfaces of the pool deck, the tight-clipped manicures of the garden, the venerable house and trees, the fetching, narrow street.†   (source)
  • They didn't appear much different to me than they did twenty years before; they looked just as tall, as venerable, the capital of my father's life.†   (source)
  • Live—live, my venerable friend.†   (source)
  • I know all about that fine and terrible ordering, how it variously casts you as the golden child, the slave-son or daughter, the venerable father, the long-dead god.†   (source)
  • His "venerable colleague" Franklin, he noted, had the enviable privilege, because of his advanced age, to embrace the ladies as much as he pleased and to be "perpetually" embraced by them in return.†   (source)
  • The obituary that appeared in the Boston papers, noted that Susanna Boylston Adams Hall, mother of the President of the United States, who died in the eighty-ninth year of her life, had "afforded the present generation a living example of that simplicity of manners and godly sincerity for which the venerable settlers of this country were so justly esteemed.†   (source)
  • Bennington represented a dying part of the South: the venerable, hoary-maned administrator who tended his district with the same care and paternalism the master once rendered to his plantation.†   (source)
  • It is only fitting, therefore, that we fallen ones take umbrage within the pale of another venerable tradition.†   (source)
  • To burn this ancient wood. as venerable as the Forest of Arden, seemed almost an act of sacrilege to me.†   (source)
  • The religion by which you rule is very ancient, goddess, but my protest is also that of a venerable tradition.†   (source)
  • I also remember a certain venerable frayed and patterned afghan which in cold weather she used to cover her lap and the imprisoned leg.†   (source)
  • It was a genuine remnant of the Old South, with rocking chairs on high verandahs and venerable octogenarians and their aristocratic progeny carrying on the myth and legend which ended reluctantly at Appomattox Courthouse.†   (source)
  • From its fittings—its badly worn but still comfortable seats, the ornate and now tarnished chandeliers—Sophie could tell that the venerable coach had once carried people first-class; save for a singular difference, it might have been one of those cars of her girlhood in which her father—always the stylish voyager—had taken the family to Vienna or Bozen or Berlin.†   (source)
  • She always felt somewhat more at peace here than in other parts of Brooklyn; though this college bore as much resemblance to the venerable Jagiellonian University of her past as does a shiny chronometer to a mossy old sundial, its splendidly casual and carefree mob of students, its hustling between-classes pace, its academic look and feel made Sophie comfortable, relaxed, at home.†   (source)
  • The venerable German shorthand method (Gabelsberger) which she had learned at the age of sixteen in Cracow, and had employed so often in the service of her father, had come back to her with remarkable ease after several years' disuse; her speed and skill surprised her, and she breathed a small prayer of thanks to her father, who, though in his grave at Sachsenhausen, had provided for her this measure of salvation.†   (source)
  • "I wish," the venerable one spoke slowly, "that your thoughts shall not be in error, that you shall reach the goal!†   (source)
  • Siddhartha knew many venerable Brahmans, chiefly his father, the pure one, the scholar, the most venerable one.†   (source)
  • What, oh Siddhartha, what would then become of all of this what is holy, what is precious, what is venerable on earth?†   (source)
  • Quoth Siddhartha, smiling from his old eyes: "Do you call yourself a searcher, oh venerable one, though you are already of an old in years and are wearing the robe of Gotama's monks?†   (source)
  • Quoth Siddhartha: "A long time ago, oh venerable one, many years ago, you've once before been at this river and have found a sleeping man by the river, and have sat down with him to guard his sleep.†   (source)
  • You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment!†   (source)
  • You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes.†   (source)
  • I have never before seen a person glance and smile, sit and walk this way, he thought; truly, I wish to be able to glance and smile, sit and walk this way, too, thus free, thus venerable, thus concealed, thus open, thus child-like and mysterious.†   (source)
  • Then he happened to meet Gotama, the exalted one, and when he greeted him with respect and the Buddha's glance was so full of kindness and calm, the young man summoned his courage and asked the venerable one for the permission to talk to him.†   (source)
  • How could it be that among so many learned men, among so many Brahmans, among so many austere and venerable Samanas, among so many who are searching, so many who are eagerly trying, so many holy men, no one will find the path of paths?†   (source)
  • But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.†   (source)
  • , the venerable one spoke.†   (source)
  • He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied.†   (source)
  • If I merely were one of your disciples, oh venerable one, I'd fear that it might happen to me that only seemingly, only deceptively my self would be calm and be redeemed, but that in truth it would live on and grow, for then I had replaced my self with the teachings, my duty to follow you, my love for you, and the community of the monks!†   (source)
  • And arriving at Savathi, in the very first house, before the door of which they stopped to beg, food has been offered to them, and they accepted the food, and Siddhartha asked the woman, who handed them the food: "We would like to know, oh charitable one, where the Buddha dwells, the most venerable one, for we are two Samanas from the forest and have come, to see him, the perfected one, and to hear the teachings from his mouth."†   (source)
  • And just consider: what would become of the sanctity of prayer, what of the venerability of the Brahmans' caste, what of the holiness of the Samanas, if it was as you say, if there was no learning?†   (source)
  • I have a good deal against his venerable pomposity myself.†   (source)
  • The old stone looked very white and venerable.†   (source)
  • Bernard was handsome in person and of unusual mentality, had in himself the fineness to reverence all that was fine in his venerable Superior.†   (source)
  • The venerable idea of deporting emancipated Negroes, fantastic though it was, grew logically out of a caste psychology in a competitive labor market.†   (source)
  • College on their left and, on their right, the School Community Singery reared their venerable piles of ferro-concrete and vita-glass.†   (source)
  • It didn't Padilla, with his stiff nose of Gizeh's mummy and livid eye-patches, his narrow vault of shoulders and back, and his hard, sharp step on the getting-to-be-venerable stones.†   (source)
  • A soft light flooded the land below them, and the slow river wound between venerable abbey and stately castle, while the flaming water of sunset reflected spires and turrets and pennoncells hanging motionless in the calm air.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Reverend Sir," said the venerable Ananda to The Blessed One in assent, and spread the couch with its head to the north between twin sal-trees.†   (source)
  • In the Cornmarket a party of tourists stood on the steps of the Clarendon Hotel discussing a road map with their chauffeur, while opposite, through the venerable arch of the Golden Cross, I greeted a group of undergraduates from my college who had breakfasted there and now lingered with their pipes in the creeper-hung courtyard.†   (source)
  • Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep for ever.†   (source)
  • It was a disguise; it was the refuge of a man afraid to own his own feelings, who could not say, This is what I like—this is what I am; and rather pitiable and distasteful to William Bankes and Lily Briscoe, who wondered why such concealments should be necessary; why he needed always praise; why so brave a man in thought should be so timid in life; how strangely he was venerable and laughable at one and the same time.†   (source)
  • He began the Consecration of the Host (he had finished the wafers long ago - it was a piece of bread from Maria's oven); impatience abruptly died away: everything in time became a routine but this - 'Who the day before he suffered took Bread into his holy and venerable hands …'†   (source)
  • Thereupon the venerable Ananda spoke to the venerable Anuruddha as follows: "Reverend Anuruddha, The Blessed One has passed into Nirvana."†   (source)
  • When they called aloud, a venerable Mexican, clad in sheepskins, came out and greeted them kindly, asking them to stay the night.†   (source)
  • We might have been exploring or writing; mooning about the venerable places of the earth; sitting contemplative on the steps of the Parthenon, or going at ten to an office and coming home comfortably at half-past four to write a little poetry.†   (source)
  • And certain dispositions are found in the universe, according to those thirteen dispositions which depend from that venerable beard, and they are opened out into the thirteen gates of mercies.†   (source)
  • Old stories of old deans and old dons came back to mind, but before I had summoned up courage to whistle—it used to be said that at the sound of a whistle old Professor —— instantly broke into a gallop—the venerable congregation had gone inside.†   (source)
  • "Reverend Sir," he said, "what, pray, was the reason, and what was the cause, that The Blessed One was harsh to the venerable Upavana, saying, 'Step aside, 0 priest; stand not in front of me'?"†   (source)
  • During the conversations which then took place, as The Tathagata lay like a lion on his side, a large priest, the venerable Upavana, stood in front, fanning him.†   (source)
  • An amusing Chinese myth personifies these emanating elements as five venerable sages, who come stepping out of a ball of chaos, suspended in the void: Before heaven and earth had become separated from each other, everything was a great ball of mist, called chaos.†   (source)
  • The Blessed One, accompanied by a large congregation of priests, drew near to the further bank of the Hirannavati river, and to the city of Kusinara and the sal-tree grove Upavattana of the Mallas; and having drawn near, he addressed the venerable Ananda: "Be so good, Ananda, as to spread me a couch with its head to the north between twin sal-trees.†   (source)
  • He is a man of venerable appearance and of saintly life.†   (source)
  • One of them appeared to be very old and venerable, and walked with a stick.†   (source)
  • They had expected a venerable and dignified monument.†   (source)
  • Illness has something more or less venerable about it, if I may put it that way.†   (source)
  • His squaw followed him, and she was as venerable as he.†   (source)
  • In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the lama was a great and venerable curiosity.†   (source)
  • The person spoken of was quite venerable in appearance.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry you're out of health," she added, resting her eyes upon her venerable host.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing more venerable possible.†   (source)
  • Copperfield and Dora,' said Miss Mills, with an almost venerable air.†   (source)
  • In truth, it was a dream-like and spirit-soothing place, that venerable old town.†   (source)
  • Innocent and venerable infancy of art and contrivances!†   (source)
  • The venerable baron caught his child to his arms, and shed a wink of joy.†   (source)
  • Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris.†   (source)
  • To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.†   (source)
  • Our venerable instructor was a great deal older, and not improved in appearance.†   (source)
  • The venerable men in front of the portico faced about aghast.†   (source)
  • Nay, venerable hunter, still am I not comprehended.†   (source)
  • I see him now, excellent and venerable old man!†   (source)
  • He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema.†   (source)
  • I should like to know whether, within a few days, you have seen your venerable friend M. Nioche.†   (source)
  • The only use you can put him to," says the venerable sage.†   (source)
  • "Venerable Father Hooper," said he, "the moment of your release is at hand.†   (source)
  • On the box beside the driver sat a venerable old attendant.†   (source)
  • Those venerable personages in the coop, too, seem very affably disposed.†   (source)
  • Here the venerable dame rose and came to the window.†   (source)
  • Now, venerable priest, further into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it.†   (source)
  • "You are so sprightly, Mr. George," returns the venerable grandfather.†   (source)
  • "Venerable venator," he said, mournfully, "this is a most unscientific bark.†   (source)
  • "I don't believe there ever was," answered the venerable man.†   (source)
  • The two lovers were not listening to the venerable dowager.†   (source)
  • It was concluded that some relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop.†   (source)
  • In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of children.†   (source)
  • And they prepare to bear the venerable burden to the Sol's Arms.†   (source)
  • At length one of these, as fat, short, and venerable as himself, came to his rescue.†   (source)
  • This tub, venerable hunter, will never reach the opposite shore in safety.†   (source)
  • He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.†   (source)
  • The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.†   (source)
  • The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden.†   (source)
  • Which is why our venerable head nurse has taken charge of his supply and allows him only a small daily ration.†   (source)
  • 'There,' he said, 'there is the cause of the death of this venerable woman'—(which was a lie, because she had been ill for at least two years)—'there she stands before you, and dares not lift her eyes from the ground, because she knows that the finger of God is upon her.†   (source)
  • Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The house in itself was already an historic document, though not, of course, as venerable as certain other old family houses in University Place and lower Fifth Avenue.†   (source)
  • This lady too (Rezia Warren Smith divined it) had her dwelling in Sir William's heart, though concealed, as she mostly is, under some plausible disguise; some venerable name; love, duty, self sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Evidently some dim knowledge of it has been brought back to your mind by the sight of this venerable caravan.†   (source)
  • Have I not a venerable white beard?†   (source)
  • He and the chief engineer had been cronies for a good few years—serving the same jovial, crafty, old Chinaman, with horn-rimmed goggles and strings of red silk plaited into the venerable grey hairs of his pigtail.†   (source)
  • I shall never forget, in a quaint Norman town not far from Balbec, two charming eighteenth-century houses, dear to me and venerable for many reasons, between which, when one looks up at them from a fine garden which descends in terraces to the river, the gothic spire of a church (itself hidden by the houses) soars into the sky with the effect of crowning and completing their fronts, but in a material so different, so precious, so beringed, so rosy, so polished, that it is at once seen…†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes," said Doctor Dohmler, nodding his venerable head, as if, like Sherlock Holmes, he had expected a valet and only a valet to be introduced at this point.†   (source)
  • Close to this college was another; and a little further on another; and then he began to be encircled as it were with the breath and sentiment of the venerable city.†   (source)
  • We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.†   (source)
  • When he arrived there, the sides of the venerable fortress seemed suddenly rent in a thousand places, and from every rent leaped a red tongue of flame and a white gush of smoke; a deafening explosion followed, which drowned the shoutings of the multitude, and made the ground tremble; the flame-jets, the smoke, and the explosions, were repeated over and over again with marvellous celerity, so that in a few moments the old Tower disappeared in the vast fog of its own smoke, all but the…†   (source)
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