5325 examples of solemnest in sentences

"There goes the clock," as the slow, solemn voice of the timepiece sounded out on the night, "It is twelve o'clock, and Reuben will be coming upstairs from the kitchen.

It is surprising to note the resemblance between the solemn Chinese and the self-centred Englishmen.

What other terms can be made with a nation which regards its most solemn treaties as so much waste paper, which is bound by no conventions, and which delights in showing a callous disregard of all that forms the basis of a civilized society?

There chant my solemn requiem In Hexham's holy towers; And let six maids of fair Tynedale Scatter my grave with flowers.

Very strange, to unaccustomed eyes and ears, was the effect of this functionhalf solemn and half grotesque, with an effect intermediate between that of a religious rite and that of a comic opera.

It is all so solemn and dreadful.

" Reuben was accordingly conducted from the dock to the witness-box, and, having been sworn, made a solemn declaration of his innocence.

He now chatted with Bernardo, or with his pupil, and the other young artists of Arezzo; or enjoyed the passionate and almost solemn converse of Beatrice, who from a lively, laughing girl, had now been transformed, by some hidden process of nature, into a lofty-minded, commanding woman.

Anna thinks no more of her solemn promise, and the first school-mate she meets, she opens the secret, with a solemn injunction for her not to tell.

Anna thinks no more of her solemn promise, and the first school-mate she meets, she opens the secret, with a solemn injunction for her not to tell.

He thought this act to be a very solemn and important one, and required a thorough preparation.

White may make a scene look gay; but it can never lend it dignity, or the solemn hues that so often render the loveliness of a view impressive, as well as sweet.

Another answer isthat the framers of the Constitution selected the word "migration," because of its congruity with that of "persons," under which their virtuous shame sought to conceal from posterity the existence of seven hundred thousand slaves amongst a people, who had but recently entered upon their national career, with the solemn declaration, that "all men are created equal.

"He was as solemn as an Alp, and apparently as immovable as the Sphinx; and as for me, I simply withered on my stalk and crumbled away into dust.

No cloud hung its fleecy curtains over the canopy of heaven, but the arch of cerulean blue hung in deep solemn grandeur over the gathered crowd, over the boats at their moorings, and over the rippling waves that mirrored back its placid smile from their own tranquil bosom.

The solemn voice of prayer went up, and there were none to scoff, when the aged man bent his knee, and lifted his heart to God in prayer, beseeching him, for Jesus Christ's sake, to have mercy upon their souls.

Hast thou ne'er felt the solemn truth That palsied age must steal o'er youth; And that the auburn tresses gay Must soon be chang'd for mournful gray? Has sickness never pal'd the rose, That on the cheek of beauty glows, And ghastly death, with funeral gloom, Oft call'd the lovely to the tomb? Ah, maiden, yes, that tell-tale sigh, The downcast glances of thine eye, Say that thy heart is but

On the 14th of January in the present year the Regent, through the active agency of Concini, gave her solemn consent to the marriage of the Comte d'Enghien with Mademoiselle de Montpensier, despite the opposition of the Cardinal de Joyeuse, the Duc d'Epernon, and a number of the Court nobles, who were alarmed at the prospect of so close an alliance between M. de Soissons and the Duc de Guise.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.

His is a beautiful officerecording day by day the solemnest and most mysterious events in nature.

She finished with solemn emotion: "It has been my prayer, Rowan.

He shut himself in his room for some days, having it out alone with himself, a young man's first solemn accounting to a father who has become a memory.

She summoned a maid and instructed her regarding the room in which the visitor was to be received (not in the parlors; they were too full of solemn memories this morning).

Raymond thinks it as well, for the inaugural speech would only have been solemn mockery; but Julius thinks it a sad beginning for the place to have no blessing because of our unhappy divisions.

Beautiful as this place was, we had little time to admire it; something more solemn demanded our attention.

5325 examples of  solemnest  in sentences