329 Verbs to Use for the Word praise

" Father Slessor snored in his drunken sleep, while the family went off to hear God's Word and to sing His praises.

This was one of their hymns: Daily, daily, sing to Jesus, Sing my soul His praises due, All He does deserves our praises, And our deep devotion too.

He sings "Evening and morning and at noon I will speak and declare and He shall hear my voice" (Psalm 54, v. 18); "I rose at midnight to give praise to Thee" (Psalm 118, v. 162); "Seven times a day I have given praise to Thee" (Psalm 118, v. 164).

I was to be their instructress in action and in attitudes, and to receive their praises and their admiration of my theatrical genius.

Darrin and Dalzell, before they had been home twelve hours, were weary of hearing their praises sung.

"Sometimes I am so low-spirited," wrote the Saint, "by business and events, that I do not know where to turn nor at what end to begin: but during the Office nothing annoys me, I have not even distractions, I imagine that I am in heaven singing with the angels the praises of my Creator; and on leaving the choir I find often that the mighty problems which had given me trouble are cleared away and, solved in an Instant."

He saw how Ibla shone in society, and his passion grew to such an extent that he ventured to sound her praises, and to express the feeling she excited in him by writing verses which, while they gained the admiration of the multitude, incurred also the envy of the chieftains.

Perhaps the Chazy County people did not recognize these deficiencies, for the new paper certainly created a vast amount of excitement and won the praise of nearly all who read it.

And tho' my stammering tongue be dumb, and like a broken lute, And in its loudest efforts to speak thy praise be mute, It can at least announce to thee, loud as the thunder's peal, The service that I owe to thee, the passion that I feel.

On finding out that their representatives were caught they bestowed praise on the Lycians and Rhodians, promising to make them a present of money, and they themselves at once set out from the city.

All this seems good; and a ride of four hundred miles through such glories rarely fails to set the traveller at chanting the praises of the Emperor who conceived them.

To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.

There can be no doubt that Byron loved praise as much as he affected to despise it.

Some American troops fought with the British in their advance and gained high praise from the Allied commanders.

Landino's work on Vergil and Horace merits the warmest praise.

At this vesper service, too, Christ and His apostles celebrated the divine praises, "Hymno dicto" (St. Matthew xxvi.

It would, indeed, be ridiculous to claim for him the praise of having accomplished for mankind such splendid services as Bentham's.

Thy friend am I, and I will keep far from the man I love the secret slander, and bring nigh unto him praise and true glory, as it were streams of water: for meet is such recompense for the good.

" "There is at least a distinct connection between the two facts," said Crewe, who after his mistake in regard to Holymead was reluctant to accept any praise.

Having driven them out, the 75th pushed on to gain the pass into the hills and to begin two days of fighting which earned the unstinted praise of General Bulfin who witnessed it.

Old travellers spare no terms to tell their praises, their faultlessness of feature, their perfection of form, their varied styles of beauty,for there were even pure Caucasian blondes among them,their fascinating manners, their sparkling vivacity, their chaste and pretty wit, their grace in the dance, their modest propriety, their taste and elegance in dress.

The birds sang homage to her evermore; And myriad wingèd things, whose radiant dyes Made sunshine beautiful, still hover'd o'er, And bore her witness in the sunlit skies; And rising from the tomb in glad amaze, Came many a sainted flower to hymn her praise.

The missions of the early Jesuits extorted praises from Baxter and panegyric from Liebnitz.

If, for instance, he alludes to our gallant sepoys, he pours forth unmeasured praise, and appears altogether charmed with their docility, courage, honour, and fidelity.

for it was a prayer of the artless and enraptured bystanders, invoking Allah to bless the singing lad, and also to bless them, while ascribing all praise to the Deity.

329 Verbs to Use for the Word  praise