Example Sentences
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.
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
This protects from intrusion their reverences the canons, who sit in stalls, exquisitely carved between the years 1475 and 1538.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
A good Egyptian reverences three things beyond all others,—the gods, the pharaoh, and his own mother.”
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander
