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He stood before her a wretched culprit, hiding his guilt with lie upon lie; he, her father, whom she had reverenced so, had compassionated so, whom she loved despairingly.

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George

Honoria had reverenced in her husband all that she had ever known of manly virtue.

From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

How he had reverenced the great mediæval thinker, regarding him as the ideal of men, the most inspired of teachers.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

From my youth up I had reverenced the married state as the first and most sacred institution of nature.

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The man who wrote it had seen that large and honorable mouth worshipping wine: he had reverenced that head of laughter which has corrected all our philosophy.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire