Example Sentences

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Life indeed was loved, and the beauty and pathos of it were felt exquisitely; but its beauty and pathos lay in the divineness of its model and in its own fragility.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, an image only so Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

He unfortunately still clung to an ancient belief, which as yet remained unquestioned; i.e. the great virtue, one might almost say, the divineness, of circular motion.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius

And he then adds: “By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! behold divineness No elder than a boy.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

In all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow