Example Sentences

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He came on a meadow between two streams where the flower called white hallows grew thick, and as these blossoms are rare and prized by healers, he came back again next day.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But, Ian, no one that has been 'called by name' can ever forget the voice that called him; it haunts and hallows life forevermore.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"The spirit, when torn from earth's objects of love, Loses all its regrets in the chorus above: So in exile we cannot but cease to repine, When it hallows with ecstacy songs of Lang-syne."

From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Ball, Thomas Hanly

What a divine good it has accomplished, and continues to accomplish, and what a pure glory hallows its founder's name!

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

He will say that the thing gratifies, fills, hallows, exalts his mind, but he will not be able to say why, or how.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John