437 Verbs to Use for the Word graces

Well, he had given him ample grace.

Aunt Nancy's trembling voice arose,the voice which had jealously guarded the right of saying grace at table in the Old Ladies' Home for twenty years,not, however, in the customary words of thanksgiving, but in a peremptory "Brother Abe!" Abraham looked up.

Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord, forasmuch as thy servant hath found grace before thee, and that thou hast showed thy mercy to me, and that peradventure I might take harm on the hill, that I may go into the little city hereby and may be saved there.

But they knew how to add grace and dignity to a very notable occasion.

By all that Love you ever had for me, By all those Infant Charms which us'd to please you, When on your Lap you taught my Tongue that Art Which made those dear Impressions on your Heart, Which ever since to my Advantage grew, I do conjure you hear me now I sue, And grant the mighty Grace I beg of you.

Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity. which gives the spectators the maximum of emotional expression with the minimum of mental effort, had not been eclipsed by the splendour of a Dempsey or a Carpentier.

He read the whole Office daily and added to it prayers to obtain the grace of better attention and devotion.

She intrigued with each secretly, and bestowed her fondness and withdrew it, plied them with tears, smiles, kisses, caresses; when the mother was angry, flew to the father; when both were displeased, transferred her caresses to the domestics, or watched until she could win back her parents' good graces, either by surprising them into laughter and good-humour, or appeasing them by submissive and an artful humility.

But Lancelot mused a little space; He said "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

When a pig, deer, tiger, or other animal has been shot, and has received its coup de grace, it is quickly bundled on to the pad, and there secured.

It being thus impossible for Balboa to proceed to Spain, in protection of his own interests he manoeuvred for gaining at least the good graces of the treasurer, Pasamonte; and probably it was on this occasion that he sent him the rich present of slaves, pieces of gold, and other valuable articles, of which the licentiate Zuazo speaks in his letter to the Senor de Chieves.

Portia, who meant to return to Belmont before her husband, replied, "I humbly thank your grace, but I must away directly."

Therefore her gossip interested me, and as the golden sunset flooded the handsome old room I sat listening to her, inwardly admiring her innate grace and handsome countenance.

Peculiarly the weapon of the classical school, it had fallen into unskillful hands: Churchill, though keen and bold, lacked the grace of Pope and the power of Johnson.

Having parted with his governor, with whom he travelled into France; he soon found by conversing with men of genius, that he was much deficient in many parts of literature, and that while he acquired the graces of a gentleman, he was yet wanting in those higher excellencies; without which politeness makes but an indifferent figure, and can never raise a man to eminence.

Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart!

She knew all the aristocratic graces of the old regime.

The ruined church possesses the grace and lightness of architecture peculiar to the twelfth century, and is, even in its decay, of truly sublime and grand proportions.

They saves our grace, so's to speak.

When we ask a grace Be remembered here with us, By the vacant place.

He belonged to an ancient English family, and believed in monarchy as a devotee believes in his saint, "and he brought to the little capital at Jamestown all the graces, amenities, and well-bred ways which at that time were characteristic of the cavaliers.

"Thou dost wear The Godhead's most grace."

Religion appears to him no longer valuable than it furnishes matter for quibbles and riddles; he turns God's grace into wantonness.

He had never found a pause in his studies in which to cultivate the social graces.

What diverse sonde that God thee send, Here or in any other place, Take it with good intent; The sooner God will send his grace.

437 Verbs to Use for the Word  graces