Example Sentences

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Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are so charming, so good, and I love you so idolatrously; but I am a fearful, a horrible man, and I cannot always govern myself--I cannot!

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip

But it has been so much easier to idolatrously worship his person than to embody his principles, that ceremonials and doctrines have been substituted for the life he lived.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Wieland was honored idolatrously, far more at that time than Goethe.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

She knew that he was married, and was proud for him that his wife was a princess, and a great beauty, and that she loved him idolatrously.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip