Example Sentences

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In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Honor meant courage and courtesy, the reverencing of all women for the love of one.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

What men are here—wild, insolent, unjust, or are they hospitable, reverencing the Gods?

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

For some time we remained silent, reverencing the old man’s grief.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

A people who, reverencing beauty, reverenced likewise grace or acted beauty, so utterly and honestly, that nothing was too humble for a free man to do, if it were not done awkwardly and ill. 

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Kingsley, Charles