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  • I commend her dedication.
  • I know she gave a statement to the police, and I want to commend her on her bravery.   (source)
  • I commend the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.   (source)
    commend = praised
  • He informed an important political associate who cherished a commendatory message signed by Taft that his assistant "sent those things out by the dozen" without the Senator even seeing, much less signing them.†   (source)
  • Even the harassed Gottlieb was commendatory, though he could give but little attention and no help.†   (source)
  • Commendingly looking back at the pillow he had improvised, he left them to their hour's repose.†   (source)
  • Thus it happened that at three in the morning Martin was singing to a commendatory audience the ballad he had learned from Gustaf Sondelius: She'd a dark and a roving eye, And her hair hung down in ringlets, A nice girl, a decent girl, But one of the rakish kind.†   (source)
  • The instant the door closed on Miss Temple, Remark able commenced a sort of mysterious, ambiguous discourse, that was neither abusive nor commendatory of the qualities of the absent personage, but which seemed to be drawing nigh, by regular degrees, to a most dissatisfied description.†   (source)
  • But the game usually languished for the aforesaid reason—the dismal privacy which the earthen circle enforced, shutting out every appreciative passer's vision, every commendatory remark from outsiders—everything, except the sky; and to play at games in such circumstances was like acting to an empty house.†   (source)
  • At those times, when he is not visited by Mr. Guppy or by a small light in his likeness quenched in a dark hat, he comes out of his dull room—where he has inherited the deal wilderness of desk bespattered with a rain of ink—and talks to Krook or is "very free," as they call it in the court, commendingly, with any one disposed for conversation.†   (source)
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  • such carping is not commendable.   (source)
    commendable = deserving of praise
  • I commend your pains;
    And everyone shall share i' the gains.   (source)
    commend = praise
  • This letter from Bellario doth commend a young and learned doctor to our court.   (source)
    commend = express a favorable opinion
  • Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   (source)
    commend = publicly express a favorable opinion
  • the King's Majesty commends his good opinion of you   (source)
    commends = expresses (a favorable opinion -- possibly in a message)
  • Commend me to my cousin Westmoreland.   (source)
    commend = recommend (express a favorable opinion of)
  • Commend me to your daughter.   (source)
    commend = praise
  • O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
    Will purchase us a good opinion
    And buy men's voices to commend our deeds.   (source)
    commend = express a favorable opinion of
  • Commend my best obedience to the queen;   (source)
  • At college I had achieved nothing commendable or remarkable.†   (source)
  • "A commendably sentimental interpretation," said Valentine, "but unlikely.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
  • Very commendable, I'm sure," said King Orrin.†   (source)
  • Your enthusiasm is commendable, Saphira, but — Is Eragon injured or hurt?†   (source)
  • Very commendable, but I was thinking of your personal future.†   (source)
  • "A very commendable ambition, young man," said a small voice from across the cell.†   (source)
  • In this age when different cultures are killing each other over whose definition of God is better, one could say the Masonic tradition of tolerance and open-mindedness is commendable.†   (source)
  • A streak of tolerance was detectable; Finny decided that they were beginning to show commendable signs of maturity.†   (source)
  • Well, that's commendable.†   (source)
  • Turning his attention to his okroshka, the Count could tell at a glance that it was a commendable execution—a bowl of soup that any Russian in the room might have been served by his grandmother.†   (source)
  • The USDA's recent decision to perform E. coli 0157:H7 tests on the ground beef it buys for schools, though commendable, was made more than seven years after the Jack in the Box outbreak.†   (source)
  • Commendably, it was a look she was able to maintain as she took in the small block of typewriting and in a glance absorbed it whole—a unit of meaning whose force and color was derived from the single repeated word.†   (source)
  • "Very commendable," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • It is commendable to wish to relieve human suffering, but surely the insane, like idiots and cripples, owe their state to Almighty Providence, and one should not attempt to reverse decisions which are certainly just, although inscrutable to us.†   (source)
  • The knight hurried from the tent, returned in half a moment with the surgeon, who, although in awe of Hatter like everyone else, did a commendable job of hiding it and going about her business.†   (source)
  • I'd like to tell him he's had his own kind of success, and his achievements each day and every year are as commendable as those of the musicians he admires.†   (source)
  • But your family concern is commendable.†   (source)
  • A commendable dream, my Lord.†   (source)
  • Quickly and succinctly, with commendable self-control, Clarise revealed what she knew of her mother-in-law's horrible death.†   (source)
  • 29 PECKEM There was no word about Orr the next day, and Sergeant Whitcomb, with commendable dispatch and considerable hope, dropped a reminder in his tickler file to send a form letter over Colonel Cathcart's signature to Orr's next of kin when nine more days had elapsed.†   (source)
  • The majority of the lawyers handling these cases are court-appointed and work without recompense; but more often than not the courts, in order to avoid future appeals based on complaints of inadequate representation, appoint men of first quality who defend with commendable vigor.†   (source)
  • And according to one local paper, the New York Packet, they were unexpectedly well behaved, "their civility to the inhabitants very commendable."†   (source)
  • Your loyalty is commendable, Gemma.†   (source)
  • That could be a commendable quality.†   (source)
  • You've served your government commendably with many years of outstanding foreign service in Asia, and since your return from your last post your judgements have proved to be extremely valuable in formulating policy in that troubled part of the world.†   (source)
  • "Commendable," Tyrion admitted, breaking a large brown egg that reminded him unduly of the Grand Maester's bald spotted head.†   (source)
  • With commendable and rather surprising acumen, the senior man had identified me as the probable originator of the message; but this only led to the posing of a new and even more disturbing mystery, since no one could be found who would admit to having authorized me to go to Tierra del Fuego in the first place.†   (source)
  • This was a commendable idea in the early stages of the war, but by 1966 the bottom floor of the library was a depressing gallery of toothy, clean-cut young men cut down in various horrible ways before they had reached their twenty-fifth birthdays.†   (source)
  • "It's not the way I would like to think I would defend my throne, but in prosecuting this war against her I find myself…not commendable.†   (source)
  • As COMMENDABLE as Washington's leadership during the retreat had been, good luck had played a very large part, and wars were not won by withdrawals, however well handled.†   (source)
  • The brilliant and visionary Mr. Chase subsequently designed numerous striking interiors, which were celebrated in Architectural Digest and elsewhere, and then died in spite of his genius and talent, just as the billionaire would one day die in spite of his vast fortune, just as Dewey Beemis would die in spite of his commendable variety of skills and his infectious smile.†   (source)
  • Milo, of course, had been the big feather in his cap, although having his group bombed by Milo's planes had probably been a terrible black eye for him, even though Milo had ultimately stilled all protest by disclosing the huge net profit the syndicate had realized on the deal with the enemy and convincing everyone that bombing his own men and planes had therefore really been a commendable and very lucrative blow on the side of private enterprise.†   (source)
  • Commendable.†   (source)
  • "Commendable," he said.†   (source)
  • BRADY Most commendable.†   (source)
  • JUDGE: Commendable.†   (source)
  • I need hardly say how commendable that is, a fine example.†   (source)
  • Evy thought that commendable but a little strange.†   (source)
  • Unhappily, neither Eliza nor Gant were at any pains to examine the kind of work their children did, contenting themselves vaguely with the comfortable assurance that all work which earned money was honest, commendable, and formative of character.†   (source)
  • The cupids are well fed and present a pretty picture to the street, against the severe granite of the facade; they are quite commendable, unless you just can't stand to look at dimpled soles every time you glance out to see whether it's raining.†   (source)
  • It was a commendable trait.†   (source)
  • " "That's commendable, of course.†   (source)
  • It was all plain that he had proceeded according to very correct and commendable rules.†   (source)
  • H'm! you are candid, however—and that is commendable.†   (source)
  • She had been thinking of him so much and wishing for him in some happy, secure, commendable way.†   (source)
  • A highly commendable institution, your Hamburg.†   (source)
  • Carol was civic and neighborly and commendable today.†   (source)
  • "And Mr. Vyse?" said Lucy, who kept commendably calm.†   (source)
  • Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.†   (source)
  • I cannot, however, admit that there is nothing commendable in the manners of a democratic people.†   (source)
  • The Siouxes had awaited the issue of the foregoing dialogue with commendable patience.†   (source)
  • The best proof that there was something open and commendable about the man was the fact that Carrie took the money.†   (source)
  • "There's no need to be so apologetic," said the information-giver, "it's very commendable for you to be so attentive.†   (source)
  • She sat close to her cousin, who, with commendable patience, was listening to a long story about lost luggage.†   (source)
  • According to him, it was absurd to jabber on about the dignity of man in this instance, for our true dignity was based in the Spirit and not the flesh, and since the human soul was only too inclined to suck its entire love of life from the body, the administration of pain to the body was a highly commendable means by which to spoil the soul's desire for sensual pleasure and, as it were, drive it back out of the body and into the spiritual realm, thereby restoring the latter's dominion.†   (source)
  • It may have been the fact that Mrs. Swiftwaite's friend remained to Kennicott an ill-told rumor, it may have been Carol's voice, wistful in the pallid evening as she sang to Hugh, it may have been natural and commendable virtue, but certainly he was positive: "Nope.†   (source)
  • These precautions did not proceed from a failure of confidence, but from the circumstance that the prisoner had now complied with all the required conditions of his parole, and it would have been considered a commendable and honorable exploit to escape from his foes.†   (source)
  • Poorgrass, thus assured, trilled forth a flickering yet commendable piece of sentiment, the tune of which consisted of the key-note and another, the latter being the sound chiefly dwelt upon.†   (source)
  • Not that in democracies the arts are incapable of producing very commendable works, if such be required.†   (source)
  • And the Grand Master appoints the appellant to appear there by her champion, on pain of doom, as a person convicted of sorcery or seduction; and also the defendant so to appear, under the penalty of being held and adjudged recreant in case of default; and the noble Lord and most reverend Father aforesaid appointed the battle to be done in his own presence, and according to all that is commendable and profitable in such a case.†   (source)
  • Timpson had a large family of daughters; Mr. Riley felt for him; besides, Louisa Timpson's face, with its light curls, had been a familiar object to him over the pew wainscot on a Sunday for nearly fifteen years; it was natural her husband should be a commendable tutor.†   (source)
  • Then would he be there to tell that honourable gentleman that the Circumlocution Office not only was blameless in this matter, but was commendable in this matter, was extollable to the skies in this matter.†   (source)
  • Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein, and who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece or Palestine, follow the trapper into the prairie, or ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.†   (source)
  • That suggestion gave her something more definite to rest on than she had found in her own thoughts, and the fact of this association of her uncle's mild acuteness with her dilemma seemed to prove that she was concerned with the natural and reasonable emotions of life and not altogether a victim to intellectual eagerness and vague ambitions—ambitions reaching beyond Lord Warburton's beautiful appeal, reaching to something indefinable and possibly not commendable.†   (source)
  • "It would be much more commendable to be somebody else's enemy," said the gentleman; "far more natural."†   (source)
  • But, then, as it appears to be a duty, I shall persevere and try, and do the best I can," said Miss Ophelia; and Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.†   (source)
  • 'tis rare and commendable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman, with a degree of tact that was as unusual as it was commendable, took the line of leaving her alone.†   (source)
  • As teachers, they have given the South a commendable system of city schools and large numbers of private normal-schools and academies.†   (source)
  • Being, however, of a rather violent and quarrelsome mood in his cups, it is not impossible that he might have fallen out with her, either on this or some imaginary topic, if the young lady had not, with a foresight and prudence highly commendable, kept a boy up, on purpose, to bear the first brunt of the good gentleman's anger; which, having vented itself in a variety of kicks and cuffs, subsided sufficiently to admit of his being persuaded to go to bed.†   (source)
  • As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within in the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.†   (source)
  • His pockets were full of miscellaneous articles of attraction, which he had hoarded in days of old for his master's children, and which he now produced, with commendable prudence and economy, one by one, as overtures for acquaintance and friendship.†   (source)
  • But it is well known that this conjugal complacency belongs only to the weaker portion of the sex, who are scarcely alive to the responsibilities of a wife as a constituted check on her husband's pleasures, which are hardly ever of a rational or commendable kind.†   (source)
  • Any nation would furnish us with similar grounds of observation; for, as I have already remarked, whenever men collect together as a distinct community, the notion of honor instantly grows up amongst them; that is to say, a system of opinions peculiar to themselves as to what is blamable or commendable; and these peculiar rules always originate in the special habits and special interests of the community.†   (source)
  • Asinus displayed enough of magnanimity to render the interview amicable, and thenceforth the naturalist continued the required route with very commendable industry, but with a much more tempered discretion.†   (source)
  • George, who was a bright boy, and well trained in religious things by his mother, finding himself an object of general admiration, threw in expositions of his own, from time to time, with a commendable seriousness and gravity, for which he was admired by the young and blessed by the old; and it was agreed, on all hands, that "a minister couldn't lay it off better than he did; that 't was reely 'mazin'!"†   (source)
  • The three groups now resembled so many fleets at sea, lying with their topsails to the masts, with the commendable precaution of reconnoitring, before each could ascertain who among the strangers might be considered as friends, and who as foes.†   (source)
  • The worthy Obed had gone over the whole subject, with commendable diligence, and had just arrived at the consoling conclusion, that there was nearly as much glory in discerning the hidden sources of so considerable a stream, as in adding a plant, or an insect, to the lists of the learned, when the Pawnee reached the shore for the second time.†   (source)
  • Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.†   (source)
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  • When his wife died, he commended his daughter to the convent.
    commended = entrusted for future care
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  • In addition, the sergeant has written a letter commending the outstanding job you did in capturing our suspect.†   (source)
  • Mr. Griffen had a distinguished career as the head of a commercial empire that embraced many areas including textiles, garments and light manufacturing, and was commended for his efforts in supplying Allied troops with uniform parts and weapons components during the war.†   (source)
  • The Count, who was standing now, was inclined to echo Yaroslav's indignation and commend a punishment that fit the crime.†   (source)
  • She read out large portions of their predictions, commending them for their unflinching acceptance of the horrors in store for them — but they were less amused when she asked them to do the same thing for the month after next; both of them were running out of ideas for catastrophes.†   (source)
  • " 'Into thy hands, O merciful Savior, we commend thy servant Owen Meany,' " my father said.†   (source)
  • The judge commended the twelve white men for reaching a quick and just verdict.†   (source)
  • You're to be commended."†   (source)
  • And I've already commended you in your official report.†   (source)
  • And I'll commend her every day I'm still alive, too scared to do the same thing."†   (source)
  • The hedge animals were also gone, but when Wendy and Danny had gotten home, she had commended him on the good job he had done.†   (source)
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  • I commend you for your honesty.†   (source)
  • You are to be commended for this increase.†   (source)
  • "My God, Idris," Joan says, shaking her head, "I commend you.†   (source)
  • Father, into Thy hands I commend her spirit.†   (source)
  • "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.†   (source)
  • When the curlew sang five o'clock along with the local roosters, Dr. Juvenal Urbino commended himself body and soul to Divine Providence because he did not have the heart to live another day in his rubble-strewn homeland.†   (source)
  • She'd had a romantic streak and would have commended her son's desire to protect the girl he loved.†   (source)
  • He said: 'Suppose that here in this hall and in this audience, whose exemplary stillness and attention I cannot sufficiently commend, there is an individual who is creating a disturbance, and, by his ill-bred laughing, talking, by scraping his feet, distracts my attention from my task.†   (source)
  • The case, then commending headlines as far east as Chicago, as far west as Denver, had indeed lured to Garden City a considerable press corps.†   (source)
  • Everyone wounded at Sterling High received a letter from the president of the United States, crisp White House stationery commending them on their bravery.†   (source)
  • On June 26, 1961, our Freedom Day, I released a letter to South African newspapers from underground, which commended the people for their courage during the recent stay-at-home, once more calling for a national constitutional convention.†   (source)
  • Your lieutenant does it for you, and you don't commend him.†   (source)
  • So I'd like to commend you on your sportsmanship.†   (source)
  • Your good workmanship was evident and is to be commended.†   (source)
  • After commending them for their bravery, Nasuada dismissed all of the men except Roran, whom she asked to deliver a detailed account of his journey to and from Aroughs, as well as the capture of the city itself.†   (source)
  • There were consolation prizes—Turf and Sport was going to present Seabiscuit with a special plaque commending his performances, and by unanimous vote, they had named him Handicap Champion—but these weren't the honors the Howard barn craved.†   (source)
  • The huntress commends her, and the two of them huddle together in conference.†   (source)
  • Matt commended Jorge for being brave enough to go along with this, and quipped to Mr. Greene that I had set the bar pretty high for next year's senior projects.†   (source)
  • I take great pleasure in commending you for your fine performance, which has earned you the admiration and respect of your shipmates and extend to you a 'well done' for your impressive achievement.†   (source)
  • She wasn't sure what to expect, but to her surprise, after closing the door, he'd commended her for all her work.†   (source)
  • "Well, I do commend your sense of responsibility, but I don't think it was wise to make the detectives believe your dream might have been a vision:' "It just seemed so real," I said.†   (source)
  • "Well, I see that this wise course does not commend itself to you," he said.†   (source)
  • 'Thank you,' commended the colonel.†   (source)
  • James Davis gets a few awards for his all-around efforts, and twenty-two Ballou students who were selected back in junior high by the "I Have a Dream" Foundation (a national network of benefactors who guarantee college tuition to anyone who eventually needs it) walk up to get certificates commending their achievement thus far.†   (source)
  • I commend him in his own right, for he is the co-architect of a great and noble experiment.†   (source)
  • I suppose I should commend your dedication.†   (source)
  • The Crown governor's office will be most pleased, and I'm certain we shall be commended, as will, of course, my brilliant uncle.†   (source)
  • The next morning, in his own brief inaugural remarks before the Senate, Jefferson made a point of commending Adams as that "eminent character," and spoke of their "uninterrupted friendship."†   (source)
  • "I was only going to commend his loyalty," the Thief said, "or his lack of originality.†   (source)
  • President Kennedy is quick to commend Carpenter for his courage and skill, even as he grapples with Congress over the issue of affordable nationwide health care.†   (source)
  • My father, a Confucian of high order, would commend me for finally honoring that which is wholly evident.†   (source)
  • "Then, Madam," said the Prince, "you shall see us die fighting around you, and you must commend yourself to the Lion.†   (source)
  • In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked "upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr."†   (source)
  • You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence."†   (source)
  • He commended some of us who were his first generals.†   (source)
  • Into my hands he commends himself--naked in his chinkle-chankle.†   (source)
  • For this reason I cannot commend this account as an America that you will find.†   (source)
  • She apologized profusely when I commended her for the salt of her tongue.†   (source)
  • There are circumstances under which a superior officer, commissioned or not, is not only permitted but required to kill an officer or a man under him, without delay and perhaps without warning — and, far from being punished, be commended.†   (source)
  • Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit, she said, taking her hands from her face and looking meekly at her aunt.†   (source)
  • Senators on both sides of the bill immediately crowded about his desk to commend his courage.†   (source)
  • (ALICE exits) CHAPUYS For sheer barbarity, commend me to a good-hearted Englishwoman of a certain class …… (Wraps cloak about him) ATTENDANT It's very cold, Excellency.†   (source)
  • "I might even be commended," said the associate, suddenly frowning, wary.†   (source)
  • Indeed he was commended three times and then decorated for bravery.†   (source)
  • Contrary to what he had imagined, even contrary to what she herself had imagined, she did not withdraw her hand or let it lie inert where he placed it, but instead she commended herself body and soul to the Blessed Virgin, clenched her teeth for fear she would laugh out loud at her own madness, and began to identify her rearing adversary by touch, discovering its size, the strength of its shaft, the extension of its wings, amazed by its determination but pitying its solitude, making it…†   (source)
  • You are to be commended.†   (source)
  • I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.†   (source)
  • And when he had finished he sat with folded arms and a pleased smile, as though waiting to be commended for the humor, the clarity, and the candor of his traveler's tale.†   (source)
  • If, however, I get there on time I'll certainly commend — by name — anyone who might help me.†   (source)
  • "Dex is your platoon lieutenant, and you didn't commend him after he caught a deserter.†   (source)
  • I'm at the age when the unexpected is a daily occurrence; I commend you to the obituary pages.†   (source)
  • May I commend you, sir, on being the first honest man sent over from the Hill.†   (source)
  • I commend her to the care of the Steward of the City, until her brother returns.†   (source)
  • Into Thy hands I commend my spirit, her aunt said.†   (source)
  • In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our brother Owen…†   (source)
  • "Dear Valentine," it said, "We thank you and commend you for your efforts on behalf of the war effort.†   (source)
  • "In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our sister Tabitha, and we commit her body to the ground," Pastor Merrill said.†   (source)
  • Ender would commend him for that.†   (source)
  • "I commend you," he said.†   (source)
  • Then an alcohol rubdown to bring the fever down a bit until the drug had time to do its work, a little warm oil to soothe the ear, a word or two to commend bravery, and I was ready to go.†   (source)
  • I commend your memory, Peter.†   (source)
  • I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis.†   (source)
  • I commend you.†   (source)
  • I commend you.†   (source)
  • Into Thy hands I commend my spirit.†   (source)
  • Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities; giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.†   (source)
  • Buck Benson commended his paper publicly with lazy astonishment, and gave him a fair grade.†   (source)
  • I grant you such a frenzied quest of salvation was not to be commended.†   (source)
  • A roast chicken was commended and soon set before me.†   (source)
  • In fact, as it soon turned out, he was not only affable, but very appreciative and very polite and commended in very warm tones the wine and the cake that was served with it, the neatness of the house as compared to his landlady's and finally congratulated David's father on having so excellent a wife.†   (source)
  • Several of these referred to Guy Francon, "who has a tendency to the overornate, but must be commended for his loyalty to the strict tradition of Classicism."†   (source)
  • And then on that day when the cousin had commended the country wife and laughed at the city wife, that had passed which could not be forgiven.†   (source)
  • Then she commended my docility.†   (source)
  • Yes, if it is a fact that people like to have examples given them, men of the type they call heroic, and if it is absolutely necessary that this narrative should include a "hero," the narrator commends to his readers, with, to his thinking, perfect justice, this insignificant and obscure hero who had to his credit only a little goodness of heart and a seemingly absurd ideal.†   (source)
  • Msimangu presided after the European fashion, and made a speech commending the virtues of his brother priest, and the motherly care that Mrs. Lithebe had given to all under her roof.†   (source)
  • His learned Counsel pleads that he should not suffer the extreme penalty, argues that he is shocked and overwhelmed and stricken by his act, commends him for his truthful and straightforward confession, draws attention to his youth and to the disastrous effect of a great and wicked city on the character of a simple tribal boy.†   (source)
  • She commended the stove and the sofa, tried the chairs, picked up the books, stood a long while in front of the photograph of Erica.†   (source)
  • The prince commended his aspirations with warmth.†   (source)
  • Carrie looked, and observed the grace commended.†   (source)
  • The arrangement commended itself to his judgement as simple and effective.†   (source)
  • In a calm and serious tone, I commended the idea to his careful and mature consideration.†   (source)
  • The Major's musical taste has been before alluded to, and his performances on the flute commended.†   (source)
  • William was kindly commended and his promotion hoped for.†   (source)
  • This commended itself to Isabel as an ideal combination.†   (source)
  • She commended him on her death-bed to her child's care.†   (source)
  • To Mr. Lorry, he commended them all, and explained his worldly affairs.†   (source)
  • Fritz laughed, and commended his decision.†   (source)
  • His offer of his lodging must have commended itself to Phillotson at any rate, for the schoolmaster sent him a line of warm thanks, accepting the convenience.†   (source)
  • She was one of Behrens's private outpatients, and the director had commended her to the cousins' charity.†   (source)
  • We got to Leatherhead without misadventure about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I took supper with my cousins and commended my wife to their care.†   (source)
  • …together with the warrant of this Court, to the Agent and Warden of the State Prison of the State of New York at Auburn, where you shall be kept in solitary confinement until the week beginning Monday the 28th day of January, 19—, and, upon some day within the week so appointed, the said Agent and Warden of the State Prison of the State of New York at Auburn is commended to do execution upon you, Clyde Griffiths, in the mode and manner prescribed by the laws of the State of New York.†   (source)
  • ] Your guardian enjoys the best of health, and his gravity of demeanour is especially to be commended in one so comparatively young as he is.†   (source)
  • Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • 'I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible.†   (source)
  • So the Wilcox episode fell into the background, leaving behind it memories of sweetness and horror that mingled, and the sisters pursued the life that Helen had commended.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sholtheis, who had been born to a synagogue in Russia but who was now the most zealous highchurch Episcopalian in Yonkers, was constantly in his polite small way trying to have his scientific work commended by Gottlieb.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the league is engaged in founding popular universities, in working to overcome class struggle by every means of social improvement that commends itself for the purpose, and, finally, in eliminating conflict between nations, war itself, by fostering international law.†   (source)
  • He had appeared at the Epanchins' today with crape on his hat, and Princess Bielokonski had commended this action on his part.†   (source)
  • In his speeches Pickerbaugh commended Pugh for "that firm integrity and ready sympathy with which His Honor had backed up every movement for the public weal," and when Pickerbaugh (quite honestly) begged, "Mr.†   (source)
  • We've come by for our little colloquy," Hans Castorp said, his eyes directed more at the pious horror in the corner than at the occupant of this surprising room, who was commending the cousins for having kept their word.†   (source)
  • He addressed the prince, who warmly commended his sentiments, though Lebedeff whispered in his ear that this gentleman, who talked so much of his "property," had never had either house or home.†   (source)
  • Every man on board alternately commended his soul to his Creator, and strove to bethink himself of some means of saving his life.†   (source)
  • On the strength of it she bought a pair of yellow curtains with large stripes for her room, whose cheapness Monsieur Lheureux had commended; she dreamed of getting a carpet, and Lheureux, declaring that it wasn't "drinking the sea," politely undertook to supply her with one.†   (source)
  • 'T was a trying moment for a novice, nor was there the encouragement which even the timid sometimes feel, when conscious of being observed and commended.†   (source)
  • This was her history; and particularly interesting it was to Mr. Woodhouse, who commended her very much for thinking of sending for Perry, and only regretted that she had not done it.†   (source)
  • For the knaves love to hear their horses commended, the same as a foolish mother in the settlements is fond of hearing the praises of her wilful child.†   (source)
  • Kindly, as usual — and, as usual, rather trite — she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.†   (source)
  • They took leave of each other, and in ten minutes, after having commended his friend to the cares of the hostess and Bazin, d'Artagnan was trotting along in the direction of Amiens.†   (source)
  • This fit of wandering past, he solemnly commended them to One who never deserted the widow or her fatherless children, and, smiling gently on them, turned upon his face, and observed, that he thought he could fall asleep.†   (source)
  • I showed him over the establishment, not omitting the pantry, with no little pride, and he commended it highly.†   (source)
  • My dear, kind, ever-faithful and generous adviser, the one friend I have in the world, Ivan Fyodorovitch, with his deep insight into the heart, approves and commends my decision.†   (source)
  • A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness between pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.†   (source)
  • I highly commended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door almost too small to get in at.†   (source)
  • The sisters followed him into the outer cave, where David was beginning, by his sighs, to give symptoms of returning consciousness, and then commending the wounded man to their attention, he immediately prepared to leave them.†   (source)
  • For a small thing it was a great success, and Jo was more astonished than when her novel was commended and condemned all at once.†   (source)
  • By conscience and courage, by deeds of devotion and daring, he soon commended himself to his fellows and his officers; and it was to these qualities and to some knowledge of the country that he owed his selection for his present perilous duty at the extreme outpost.†   (source)
  • In both of these trials the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau was officially exonerated from any wilful misdoing, and his work commended.†   (source)
  • Now, it so happened that Mr. Fang was at that moment perusing a leading article in a newspaper of the morning, adverting to some recent decision of his, and commending him, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, to the special and particular notice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.†   (source)
  • Americans, rightly or wrongly, are commended for the ease with which they adapt themselves to foreign conditions; but Mr. Touchett had made of the very limits of his pliancy half the ground of his general success.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, it seemed to him that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, the colonel commending Thenardier to his care.†   (source)
  • …here, as you might have been informed on good authority, that you had come into a world which appeared to offer a variety of sources of interest; it was here that your grandmother lived, in venerable solitude, and dispensed a hospitality which commended itself alike to the infant imagination and the infant palate; it was here that you took your first walks abroad, following the nursery-maid with unequal step and sniffing up the strange odour of the ailantus-trees which at that time…†   (source)
  • Commending the room after this manner, the old man takes them upstairs, where indeed they do find it cleaner than it used to be and also containing some old articles of furniture which he has dug up from his inexhaustible stores.†   (source)
  • …deep into futurity: "There has always been one point of difference between us, Judge Temple, I may say, since our nativity," he replied; not that I would insinuate that you are at all answerable for the acts of Nature; for a man is no more to be condemned for the misfortunes of his birth, than he is to be commended for the natural advantages he may possess; but on one point we may be said to have differed from our births, and they, you know, occurred within two days of each other."†   (source)
  • Many stared—many smiled; but no one looked more amused than Mr. Bennet himself, while his wife seriously commended Mr. Collins for having spoken so sensibly, and observed in a half-whisper to Lady Lucas, that he was a remarkably clever, good kind of young man.†   (source)
  • The old woman had now done what she could for the aspect of the chamber; and, commending the young man to the protection of the saints, took her departure.†   (source)
  • Mr Flintwinch presented the gentleman commended to the consideration of Clennam and Co. Mrs Clennam, who had the letter lying before her, bent her head and requested him to sit.†   (source)
  • He embraced her, solemnly commended her to Heaven, and humbly thanked Heaven for having bestowed her on him.†   (source)
  • But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away, that were thus loth to depart, their Reverend Pastor falling down on his knees, and they all with him, with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent prayers unto the Lord and his blessing; and then, with mutual embraces and many tears they took their leaves one of another, which proved to be the last leave to many of them.†   (source)
  • But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.†   (source)
  • He carved, and ate, and praised with delighted alacrity; and every dish was commended, first by him and then by Sir William, who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said, in a manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear.†   (source)
  • The landlord of the Sol's Arms, finding Little Swills so popular, commends him highly to the jurymen and public, observing that for a song in character he don't know his equal and that that man's character-wardrobe would fill a cart.†   (source)
  • If the objection were taken that the thing commended was trash, he would reply, on behalf of his art, 'My good fellow, what do we all turn out but trash?†   (source)
  • They often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse, in suffering.†   (source)
  • The result of these reflections was that d'Artagnan, without asking information of any kind, alighted, commended the horses to the care of his lackey, entered a small room destined to receive those who wished to be alone, and desired the host to bring him a bottle of his best wine and as good a breakfast as possible—a desire which further corroborated the high opinion the innkeeper had formed of the traveler at first sight.†   (source)
  • Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others, only the good and new is heard by us.†   (source)
  • I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended.†   (source)
  • As the Teton ended, he pointed significantly towards a tent, vividly emblazoned with the history of one of his own boldest and most commended exploits, and which stood a little apart from the rest, as if to denote it was the residence of some privileged individual of the band.†   (source)
  • Agnes has a great liking for Traddles, and it is capital to see them meet, and to observe the glory of Traddles as he commends the dearest girl in the world to her acquaintance.†   (source)
  • Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sonya, blaming himself and commending her.†   (source)
  • Above all things she commended a strict maidenly reserve, as being not only a very laudable thing in itself, but as tending materially to strengthen and increase a lover's ardour.†   (source)
  • We too were ready for repose, and having loaded our guns, and offered up our prayers to God, thanking him for his many mercies to us, we commended ourselves to his protecting care, and as the last ray of light departed, closed our tent and lay down to rest.†   (source)
  • I resorted humbly whither Agnes had commended me; I sought out Nature, never sought in vain; and I admitted to my breast the human interest I had lately shrunk from.†   (source)
  • The President rang his bell; but, The Vengeance, warming with encouragement, shrieked, "I defy that bell!" wherein she was likewise much commended.†   (source)
  • Are you rich enough to help anybody? to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric? rich enough to make the Canadian in his wagon, the itinerant with his consul's paper which commends him "To the charitable," the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English, the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town, even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house, from the general bleakness and stoniness; to make such…†   (source)
  • He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general; and having thought the matter over, and taken his resolution in quiet independence, the result of it appeared the next morning at breakfast, when, after recalling and commending what his nephew had said, he added, "I do not like, William, that you should leave Northamptonshire without this indulgence.†   (source)
  • The proposal commended itself more to Ralph than to Isabel, weary with much wandering; so that she admonished her companion to satisfy his curiosity while she patiently awaited his return.†   (source)
  • In answer to this direct appeal, Mrs Merdle assured Mrs Gowan (speaking as a Priestess of Society) that she was highly to be commended, that she was much to be sympathised with, that she had taken the highest of parts, and had come out of the furnace refined.†   (source)
  • As soon as we could gather our children around us on dry land, we knelt to offer thanks and praise for our merciful escape, and with full hearts we commended ourselves to God's good keeping for the time to come.†   (source)
  • Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath—the listener could feel how white she was, without seeing her—and both highly commended it.†   (source)
  • She commended me to God, who had taken my innocent darling to His rest; and in her sisterly affection cherished me always, and was always at my side go where I would; proud of what I had done, but infinitely prouder yet of what I was reserved to do.†   (source)
  • …as being rather incumbrances than otherwise in rising families: happening to be acquainted with several whose spirit prevents their settling down to any grovelling occupation, and only displays itself in a tendency to cultivate moustachios, and look fierce; and although moustachios and ferocity are both very pretty things in their way, and very much to be commended, we confess to a desire to see them bred at the owner's proper cost, rather than at the expense of low-spirited people.†   (source)
  • 'If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, which is now "commended" (in the language of an immortal Writer) to the lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that a friendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum Of 23l 4s 9 1/2d is over due, and is NOT provided for.†   (source)
  • Nicholas, having highly commended the resolution, Mr Crummles went on to impart such further intelligence relative to their mutual friends as he thought might prove interesting; informing Nicholas, among other things, that Miss Snevellicci was happily married to an affluent young wax-chandler who had supplied the theatre with candles, and that Mr Lillyvick didn't dare to say his soul was his own, such was the tyrannical sway of Mrs Lillyvick, who reigned paramount and supreme.†   (source)
  • Then having commended ourselves to his protecting care, I took leave of my wife and children, and bidding them not wander far from the boat and tent, we parted not without some anxiety on either side, for we knew not what might assail us in this unknown region.†   (source)
  • Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.†   (source)
  • And there with he commended the king to God, and so rode through many realms.†   (source)
  • So Sir Bors took his horse, and commended him to God, and rode after, to rescue the wounded knight.†   (source)
  • And so she commended Sir Launcelot to dinner.†   (source)
  • And when they had heard these voices they commended him unto God.†   (source)
  • I suppose well, said Sir Galahad, and took his armour and his horse, and commended them unto God.†   (source)
  • THEN went Sir Bors from thence and commended the Abbot unto God.†   (source)
  • So he commended them unto God and departed.†   (source)
  • Idomeneus had commended him to the surgeons and made his way now to his hut; he longed once more to join the fighting.†   (source)
  • What Elinor said in reply she could not distinguish, but judged from the motion of her lips, that she did not think THAT any material objection;—and Mrs. Jennings commended her in her heart for being so honest.†   (source)
  • Philopoemen,(*) Prince of the Achaeans, among other praises which writers have bestowed on him, is commended because in time of peace he never had anything in his mind but the rules of war; and when he was in the country with friends, he often stopped and reasoned with them: "If the enemy should be upon that hill, and we should find ourselves here with our army, with whom would be the advantage?†   (source)
  • Ye shall not find this day nor night, but to-morn ye shall find harbour good, and ease of that ye be in doubt of And then he commended her unto God.†   (source)
  • Anon Galahad armed him, and took his horse, and commended him to God, and bade the gentlewoman go, and he would follow thereas she liked.†   (source)
  • Then Queen Guenever commended him, and so did all other good knights make much of him, except Sir Gawaine's brethren.†   (source)
  • And upon the morrow when they had heard mass they departed and commended the good man to God: and so they came to a castle and passed by.†   (source)
  • SO departed he from thence, and commended the brethren to God; and so he rode five days till that he came to the Maimed King.†   (source)
  • And after dinner he took his horse and commended her to God, and so rode into a deep valley, and there he saw a river and an high mountain.†   (source)
  • And then he asked his arms, and mounted upon his horse, and hung the white shield about his neck, and commended them unto God.†   (source)
  • Then gat he his spear in his hand, and his sword by his side, and commended the lady unto God, and said: Lady, for this good deed I shall do you service if ever it be in my power.†   (source)
  • Then he commended himself unto God, and prayed Our Lord to keep him from all such temptations; and so he prayed all that night till on the morn that it was day; then he saw that he was in a wild mountain the which was closed with the sea nigh all about, that he might see no land about him which might relieve him, but wild beasts.†   (source)
  • And when he had said these words Galahad went to Percivale and kissed him, and commended him to God; and so he went to Sir Bors and kissed him, and commended him to God, and said: Fair lord, salute me to my lord, Sir Launcelot, my father, and as soon as ye see him, bid him remember of this unstable world.†   (source)
  • So he prayed briefly, Into Thy hands, oh God, I commend Ndotsheni.†   (source)
  • For a conceited, kindless carl, commend me to yon mannie.†   (source)
  • Now to Almighty God, to the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to the blessed John the Baptist, the holy apostles Peter and Paul, to the blessed martyr Denys, and to all the Saints, I commend my cause and that of the Church.†   (source)
  • No power but the power of God could bring about such a miracle, and he prayed again briefly, Into Thy hands, oh God, I commend Ndotsheni.†   (source)
  • This motto, however, they did not commend to farmer customers who had had crop failures.†   (source)
  • That won't hold water; it doesn't commend itself to reason."†   (source)
  • And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.†   (source)
  • I commend her for it, though others don't."†   (source)
  • I cannot sufficiently commend that view.†   (source)
  • "I commend the fellows," he said, with good-will.†   (source)
  • It's a very 'portant habit, Andy; and I 'commend yer to be cultivatin' it, now yer young.†   (source)
  • Commend me to a sailor for going the quick way to work!†   (source)
  • MARTHA Commend your soul to God for pardon, That you your heart with slander harden!†   (source)
  • He sat his basket down by the row, and, looking up, said, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit!†   (source)
  • Between the Mussulman and the Pharisee, commend me to the first!'†   (source)
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