Example Sentences

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The ever transparent atmosphere, and the lovely cloud effects that prevail, are accompaniments which will hallow the desolate sierras for the artist at all seasons.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

I recall a beautiful line of Fiona Macleod’s to the effect that ‘a secret vision in the soul will hallow life.’

From Modern marriage and how to bear it by Braby, Maud Churton

Iden, in “Henry VI.,” remarks:— “Is’t Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor, Sword, I will hallow thee for this thy deed, And hang thee o’er my tomb, when I am dead.”

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William

Sword, I will hallow thee for this thy deed, And hang thee o’er my tomb when I am dead.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Let the President sleep—tears will hallow the ground, Where we raise o'er his ashes the sheltering mound, And his spirit will sometimes return from above, There to mingle with ours in ineffable love.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)