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Updated: September 26, 2025
It is suspected by old Edomites that the menials, finding themselves watched at this delicate task, strive to copy in face and demeanour the solemnity of the observing employer clipping the box hedge one more fraction of an inch with the wariest caution maintaining outwardly, in short, a most reverent seriousness which in their secret hearts they do not feel. Let this be so or not.
The hushed interior was bathed in a dim, religious light; and the congregation, seated on small wooden chairs, gazed in reverent silence at the pulpit, where a gentleman of commanding presence and sparkling pince-nez was delivering a species of chant. Behind a gold curtain at the end of the room mysterious forms flitted to and fro.
Some are quite bright little patches. But it's just nonsense to suppose we are tender to the wounded up here and, putting it plainly, there isn't a scrap of pity left for the enemy. Not a scrap. Not a trace of such feeling. They were tender about the wounded in the early days men tell me and reverent about the dead. It's all gone now. There have been atrocities, gas, unforgettable things.
He replaced them with reverent touch, turning away even in thought from what he had never meant to see. By and by he heard in the distance the roll of carriages returning from the Fieldings' reception. He replenished the fire generously, found a long cloak in the closet at the end of the hall, and waited the sound of wheels before his own door.
Pass within the sacred circle!" He clapped his hands. The young man crossed the line with a sort of reverent reluctance, and took his place within the ring, close up to Felix. The chief laid his hand on Mali's shoulder. "The Shadow of the Queen of the Clouds," he said, turning her three times round. "Follow her in all her incomings and outgoings, and serve her faithfully. Taboo! Taboo!
One day we sat in the room of the Bogdo and Prince Djam Bolon translated to him my story of the Great War. The old fellow was listening very carefully but suddenly opened his eyes widely and began to give attention to some sounds coming in from outside the room. His face became reverent, supplicant and frightened.
They could think only of the wounded men, who had been so carefully brought on shore by their companions. On the following day the inhabitants, such as were not caring for the wounded English and American soldiers, gathered at the liberty pole. It was a quiet and reverent gathering. Several men of the settlement had been wounded, and two had given their lives for America's cause.
When the last word of the tale was spoken, the elder Raoul, who stood at the entrance of the cave, gazing out over the sunlit valley of the Arblen, removed his hat with a reverent gesture and crossed himself. "God forgive us miserable sinners," he said humbly, "and pardon us our human pride!
But there was something infinitely pathetic to him in the listlessness of her attitude, in the expression of a deep and melancholy that had come into her face. He stole swiftly to her side, and taking her hand in his pressed it to his lips, with a gesture that was as reverent as it was tender.
Who hath more zeal for our blessed Lord Jesus, and a more living faith in Him? Who hath a more filial love and tenderness towards our blessed Mother? Who hath more reverent communion with all the saints than he? Truly, he sometimes seems to me to walk encompassed by all the armies of heaven, such a power goes forth in his words, and such a holiness in his life."
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