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It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

First immersion and I�m away from the North Pacific and all of its frigid reverences, springtide gales, redwoods, white sharks and hypothermia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.

From Time Magazine Archive

“My father praised Robert without respite! So my behavior was disgracious. But such reverences, such empathies that existed between them, they are very combustible. Friendship is a calmer thing. Robert left Zedelgem in winter.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Many of the others rose to their feet and made their reverences according to their kind, clumsy or clever.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)