554 examples of meekly in sentences

What's going to become of you, I wonder?" "I'm wondering that myself," said the little man, meekly.

" "Thank you, Patsy," said Uncle John, meekly, and gathered up his forty-two cents.

" Dan'l meekly set the violin underneath his chin and raised the bow as if in readiness.

Betty, I thought you had Latin at this period?" "I have," admitted Betty, so meekly that Miss Anderson looked away lest she laugh.

Many times, in the early spring, when foxes are mating, and again later when they are heavy with young and incapable of a hard run, I have caught my hounds trotting meekly after a mother fox, sniffing her trail indifferently and sitting down with heads turned aside when she stops for a moment to watch and yap at them disdainfully.

The Osages stood immovable, gazing at one another with a grim, half-angry, half-comic expression, and ere they could speak, three maidens disguised as warriors stood meekly one before each brave, a horse's tail in one hand, and the other trophies in the other.

She rose, and took up her sunshade, and went with him meekly through the cultivated shrubbery of ornamental timber to the rougher pathway that wound through a copse of Scotch fir, which formed the outer boundary of Lady Maulevrier's domain.

'I hope my gowns will always be chien,' said Lesbia meekly.

Mr. Smithson had accompanied his fiancée from town, and now sat reading the Globe, and meekly waiting for his tea, while Lesbia took a languid survey of the shore and the flotilla of boats, little and big, and while Lady Kirkbank rhapsodised about the yacht, praising everything, and calling everything by a wrong name.

It had been already appropriated by Rilboche, and smelt of cognac; but Rilboche resigned her berth to her mistress, and laid herself meekly on the floor for the rest of the voyage.

Again with softened and gladdened faces the little congregation looked up to the fair, tall priestess with her snow-white robes and snow-white hair, and gleaming steadfast eyes, standing meekly between the communion-table and the chair in which sat her golden-haired little son.

They took his word and he went, deposited his bag of meal in the kitchen, and returned meekly to martyrdom.

The dog, which was in truth no other than a noble animal of the well-known Newfoundland breed, hung his head, and made signs of contrition, by drawing nearer to his master with a tail that swept the ground, while his late adversary quietly seated himself with a species of monastic dignity, looking from the speaker to his foe, as if endeavoring to comprehend the rebuke which his powerful and gallant antagonist took so meekly.

he concluded meekly.

All rabbits are idiotic things, but these come in and sit up meekly and beg a crust of bread, and even a perennial fare of village moorgee cannot induce me to issue the order for their execution and conversion into pie.

"You, Letty, can't you go look her up?" Now was heard the voice of Plez, who meekly emerged from the shade of Letty.

Mrs. Spragg tottered meekly after her, and Mr. Spragg lounged out into the marble hall to buy a cigar before taking the Subway to his office.

We are convinced, if he had been early a popular poet, he would have borne his honours meekly, and would have been a person of great bonhommie and frankness of disposition.

Have you done your best?" "I have, indeed," he answered meekly.

" "I don't know," meekly answered 'Tenty; "I've had some, but I haven't laid 'em up much.

" "Just so," acquiesced her sister, meekly.

Her merry laughter, soft and low, Is as the chimes of silver bells, That like sweet anthems float, and flow Through woodland groves and bosky dells, And when the violets see her eyes, They flush and glowwith love and shame, They meekly droop with sad surprise, As though unworthy of the name.

How meekly o'er the meadows

So impressed was France with this fact that the war had scarcely begun when the Directory meekly sent word that if another set of ministers came they would be received.

she meekly cried, "Protect the fatherless."

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