33 Verbs to Use for the Word meeks

Betty looked meek, and blushed, and simpered again.

Can you for a moment imagine the meek, and lowly, and compassionate Saviour, a slaveholder?

The last days crawled painfully by for all of them, and the Dozen grew more and more meek as they became more and more homesick for their mothers.

'I believe I feel meek when I'm with you.

Whither, O whither art thou fled, To lay thy meek, contented head?

"Behold, where bound, and of its robe bereft By needy man, that all-depending lord, How meek, how patient, the mild creature lies!

My father, trained from infancy to expect the employment, and accustomed to its discharge in contemplation, succeeded to his parent while yet young; and, though formed by nature a meek and even a compassionate man, he has never shrunk from his bloody tasks, whenever required to fulfil them by the command of his superiors.

Give me your hand; here let me kneel; Make your reproaches sharp as steel; Spurn me, and smite me on each cheek; No violence can harm the meek, There is no wound Christ cannot heal!

Not a desolation of cruelty and tyranny: but a desolation of mercy and justice; putting down the proud, the aggressive, the ruthless, and helping the meek, the simple, the industrious, and the innocent.

I am a patient enough man, I believe, and I hope meek and lowly, but I saw suddenly that not all the beatitudes should be taken without reservation.

For example, A's company has made a find of priceless stuff, Heaven knows how old, and isnot too meek about it.

He visited a real-estate office, for one thing, and then telephoned Isham, Marvin & Co. and issued a string of orders in a voice not nearly so meek and mild as it was when he was in Patsy's presence.

Believe me, Lord Mountdean, that she herself is as pure as a saint, that I know no other woman at once so meek and so lofty, so noble and so humble.

She was taken up by London society,which must always be taking up something, whether it be a chimney-sweep that composes music, or an elephant that dances the valse à deux temps; and she fluttered from party to party, a sort of Tom Moore in petticoats,with this difference, that Moore left his meek little wife at home, while Lady Morgan trotted her husband out after her on all occasions.

Tell me where lives that thing so meek and tame, That doth not all his living faculties Put forth in preservation of his life?

My memory paints her sweetly meek, With her long sunny tresses, And how the blushes on her cheek Kissed back their warm caresses; But like an angry cloud that cleaves Down thro' the mists of glory, I see the flowers a pale hand weaves Around a forehead gory.

A youth who had freely partaken of the cup which cheers and likewise inebriates, following a moth-like impulse very natural under the circumstances, dashed his fist at the light and quenched the meek luminary,breaking through the plate-glass, of course, to reach it.

Mercy smiles, and every face Reflects the Cherub's aspect meek; Glowing with her resistless grace, Mercy beams on every cheek.

If he has another wife she must not interfere, must always keep her eyes on her master, ready to receive his commands; she must never be gloomy or discontented in his presence; and though he abuse or even beat her she must return only meek and soothing words.

Here the deeply agitated governess regained a portion of her self-command, and then her wandering gaze sought the meek, concerned countenance of the chaplain.

A FAIRY TALE There stands by the wood-path shaded A meek little beggar maid; Close under her mantle faded She is hidden like one afraid.

The executioner attended him obsequiously; but this athletic savage, though trained to acts of cruelty, and conscious he had a legal sanction for the barbarous violence he had exerted, could not behold without shuddering the meek and gentle Missionary of Compassion.

The pranks which, in a backwoods American, would be stigmatized as shocking obscenity, become, when perpetrated by a rich Englishman, charming evidence of sportive humour," &c. A considerable portion of the volume is dedicated to Church matters; for which subject the meek and lowly style which characterizes his writing pre-eminently qualifies him, and to which, doubtless, he is indebted for the patronage of The Christian Advocate.

"Ifas the rainbow takes its hues Of beauty from the sun We strive to live like Christ our Lord, The meek and holy One, "Then shall we dwell in Heaven's clear day, Which knows nor night nor moon, For, ever, from the Father's throne Beams high and cloudless noon.

Dost thou not believe, Adelheid, that there are certain races which are deemed accursed, to answer some great and unseen endraces on whom the holy blessings of Heaven never descend, as they visit the meek and well-deserving that come of other lines!"

33 Verbs to Use for the Word  meeks