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regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration — sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- For she looked as reverently at Mr. Casaubon's religious elevation above herself as she did at his intellect and learning.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (23% in)
reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- It had now entered Dorothea's mind that Mr. Casaubon might wish to make her his wife, and the idea that he would do so touched her with a sort of reverential gratitude.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (19% in)
- Now she would be able to devote herself to large yet definite duties; now she would be allowed to live continually in the light of a mind that she could reverence.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (33% in)
- To have approached Laure with any suit that was not reverentially tender would have been simply a contradiction of his whole feeling towards her.Book 2 — Old and Young (30% in)
- Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of...Book 2 — Old and Young (69% in)
- Permanent rebellion, the disorder of a life without some loving reverent resolve, was not possible to her; but she was now in an interval when the very force of her nature heightened its confusion.Book 2 — Old and Young (70% in)
- He had nothing to say against the last four; but he regarded them as a reverential pagan regarded other gods than his own.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (26% in)
- In fact, he had a reverential soul with a strong practical intelligence.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (26% in)
- Caleb was very fond of music, and when he could afford it went to hear an oratorio that came within his reach, returning from it with a profound reverence for this mighty structure of tones, which made him sit meditatively, looking on the floor and throwing much unutterable language into his outstretched hands.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (16% in)
- Those words of Lydgate's were like a sad milestone marking how far he had travelled from his old dreamland, in which Rosamond Vincy appeared to be that perfect piece of womanhood who would reverence her husband's mind after the fashion of an accomplished mermaid, using her comb and looking-glass and singing her song for the relaxation of his adored wisdom alone.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (46% in)
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