venerations

Updated: May 20, 2025

I had a letter once, from a most lovely woman, announcing to me the death of her husband, a worthless person; and she spoke of it with no more interest than if a log had rolled from the river-bank and floated down the stream. What do you think of that, with affections, venerations, loves, sympathies, swelling around you like a tide?

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter

In this kind we commend the wisdom and goodness of Galen, who would not leave unto the world too subtle a theory of poisons; unarming thereby the malice of venomous spirits, whose ignorance must be contented with sublimate and arsenic. For surely there are subtler venerations, such as will invisibly destroy, and like the basilisks of heaven.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6