1 If you can't be reverent, at least don't be so pert and opinionated, now when men and women are dying.
2 She felt his kiss, diffident and reverent, on her eyelid.
3 Mary touched it herself in an eager, reverent way.
4 He drew me into his office, remarking in a reverent voice that it was a sad time for all of us, and offered me a cigar.
5 After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.
6 He listened in reverent silence now to the priest's appeal and through the words he heard even more distinctly a voice bidding him approach, offering him secret knowledge and secret power.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 7 Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.
8 In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers.
9 The tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.
10 To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.
11 They spoke together, and the sounds of their voices were low and solemn, as if influenced by a reverence that was deeply blended with awe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 12 Nothing could surpass the reverence and affection with which this unexpected visit from one who belongs rather to another world than to this, was received by his people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 13 "It was the Lenni Lenape," returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to their former greatness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 14 The calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced the awful reverence with which his people received the communication of the patriarch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 15 Our want of reverence for him must have perplexed him greatly.