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Sentence Examples The door swung open, and poor Jelvin's mother's eyes beheld the most ghastly sight they would ever see. Will's face softened with warmth and affection as he beheld his son for the first time. Mara smiled slightly as they entered the broad bowl of mountains and beheld the lake of clear water at its centre. No, in the Garden of Eden, all creatures beheld the beatific vision, that is, all things as one. We were laughing with each other a little when we entered, but then our eyes looked up and we saw what beheld us in the living room. Chloe beheld a middle-aged man of medium build with a fading brown beard fringing his face. She smiled as she beheld her friends and her children, all seated at the round table. I actually still remember the exact table we were sitting at when we first opened it and beheld the wonders inside. At dawn this morning, I looked out the window into the snowy mist and there with my very own eyes beheld the culprit at last. It was there, in those ancient precincts, that I beheld a blinding light descending upon me. His effect on her was, if anything, more powerful than it had been the first time she beheld him. In the frosty air they beheld smoke arising from a spot in the centre of the bog at Ratheskin, and towards it they proceeded with caution. Her eyes were loving and strong as they beheld her husband, her warrior, who was to risk his life in battle once more. And in sooth some who beheld the portrait spoke of its resemblance in low words, as of a mighty marvel. Joseph was inexpressibly shocked to observe his son's enthusiasm as he beheld these exhibitions of heathen vaingloriousness. And there, in the dusty noonday sun, the kids beheld a glittering pile of golden coins. Mama turned from the stewpot, a sour expression warping her countenance as she beheld my infantile behavior. While under the influence of a stupefactive or anaesthetic, the sorcerer or the person subjected to his artifices, beheld spirits or daemons. Hardly had I seated myself when my eyes beheld a child staring accusingly at me. Upon taking off the cloth he beheld a human head just decollated. Show More Sentences He beheld the image for a few moments before concentrating his gaze lower. Upon their arrival in Rockaway on Friday, the sisters were stunned by the destruction they beheld. Thirty years later, Miller beheld her in another proceeding and asked the board not to parole her. They hiked part way up the mountain and beheld a spectacular view. It was like everything she beheld was hazy, viewed through foggy lenses. Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting. It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead. After coddling clients, retrieving luggage, and fighting traffic, he beheld sweet, nagless me. Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. Eyes never beheld the sea so angry, so high, so covered with foam. Donald no sooner beheld his kinswoman than he dropped on his knee and with the wildest demonstrations of joy kissed the hand of the ragged kerne who supported her. We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. The Analects abstains from inconsistence between words and acts, which gives the impression that the communicator cannot practice the values beheld. I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening? Examples from Classical Literature The bitterest hour that I have known, was that in which you fell, and I beheld your fall. Silvia gave a little cry of pleasure, and looking over her shoulder, I beheld a baby grand piano. Gazing over the cragged summit, he beheld her approaching with a gentleman at her side. When the sun waxed strong, I beheld in the refulgence of the two our great, encircled earth as a tiny ball in the distance below. I turned and beheld fujiyama across a sea of upward-sloping fields and woods. Realization came, as he beheld the woman laughing at him through the window. Ten o'clock in the morning beheld them at the door of the garter Inn at Harwich. She beheld the Colonel leaning against the newel post, looking up but not seeing her. When I saw her at work yesterday, it seemed as if I beheld her drawing water with the bottomless vessel of the Danaides. On turning a corner they beheld the Hotel Orilla del Mar three streets away, nebulously aglow with its array of kerosene lamps. All in the room were looking at me as if never before had they beheld my beauty. I once beheld it as the harbinger of happiness, as the temple of integrity and innocence. With his moustache en croc, and his shoebrush hair, I have rarely beheld a more sensual-looking desperado. Yet I stayed not in my going, as I quested through the deep-wooded hill, till I beheld him, and instantly essayed my prowess. For how else could he have interpreted the scene he beheld, his preconceptions being what they were? Ralph, greatly excited, regained his original stand of survey, and with feelings of unrepressed horror beheld the catastrophe. The oncoming of bad weather, beheld from below, is a grievance to the holiday-maker. As he was retiring he beheld his faithful chamberlain Soler defending himself valiantly against six Moors. I have never beheld anything that so closely and humiliatingly resembled the battle on the cambric square under the big sweeting. Indeed, it is very easily calculated by means of spherical geometry, what a great extent of the earth's area I beheld. Show More Sentences This staff, in fact, was the oddest-looking staff that Philemon had ever beheld. Far in the distance they beheld Caven and Malone scooting for the train with all speed. But when Loki beheld the scene he was sorely vexed that Balder was not hurt. I confess that, when I beheld you in the ante room, I blushed for my past forgetfulness. There, to his surprise, he beheld the author of the baritone performance that had been puzzling him. He stopt his horse, and swore she was the most beautiful creature he ever beheld. Then we beheld a spectacle calculated to thrill the most phlegmatic fisherman. When the knights beheld this gay company of ladies come down the steps of the perron, they rejoiced beyond measure. I beheld the pomp thick gathered round The trophied car that bore thy graced remains Through armed ranks, and a nation gazing on. Thus he was perfectly rational, though when others beheld him he appeared the insanest of mortals. Scrambling away, they beheld the head of a crocodile protruding through the sudd. They who had once beheld its splendor were inthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it. It is directly beheld by reason, but in order to be of use it has to be reflected on, and this by means of language. A jackdaw, who sat upon an elm, and beheld his exploit, resolved to imitate it. And ahead of him, and amongst the trailside bush, he beheld nothing but this rising flood. And now Graham beheld men running down among the wind-wheels, pointing weapons from which jetted out little smoky flashes. Ben and towy withdrew, and as they passed out they beheld that the scale of scarlet tablets touched the ground. Never had he beheld any ropedancer display so much grace, strength, and daring. Verily, of the world's women 'twas she was the dearest and loveliest and justest that the eyes of men had ever beheld. That aspect of the sky which they now regard as disagreeable they then beheld as maleficent. Show More Sentences When he beheld her, she pleased him and he turned to zein ul Asnam and said to him. For an instant all hands beheld a small sloop with a broken mast, kiting before the wind. With respect to the supernatural scenes I have beheld, the question is more difficult. Passing through the store he beheld Eli looking as dumbly as a lamppost at him. The countenance of the luthier brightened when he beheld this unexpected specimen of the Italian's wares. Sailing into what is now the harbor of the city of Tacoma, he there beheld the peak. He looked back at it only once, and beheld the luminous glow of the campfires. As she straightened up and turned to go, she beheld a Texas steer of the Longhorn variety only a short distance away. The old Doctor looked more sad than ever, and evidently beheld the symptoms of Roman nose as more alarming than they had been. From there he beheld an overpowering force, advancing diagonally across the llano below. It was in a late excursion of this kind that he had beheld the beauteous Imogen. Peering down the cavelike orifice that now confronted me I beheld two spectral white columns, and recognized them as my own legs. And the Vasu, when he beheld her, was overpowered by love, and the Apsaras too had her eyes immediately attracted by his form. The embarcation was a wondrous spectacle, such as civilized eyes have rarely beheld, and can never witness again. As they were preparing to encamp in the shelter of a grove, they heard voices, and soon beheld fifteen Indians approaching. The door of the one in which she with Marianna sat was violently opened, and she beheld the countenance of the pirate zappa. Then I beheld, spread out before me, the greater part of Greece, together with the countless islands that engirdle it. When I came home from school at night, through a strangely permeated atmosphere, I beheld the clarifier simmering on the stove. While Daniel beheld the little horn, he said, among other things, he would think to change times and laws. The eye at once became clairvoyant, so that she beheld the fes in their true nature. Show More Sentences I thought I beheld in a dream a filagree work suspended by fairies in the air. John the revelator beheld in vision this scene of primeval conflict between the hosts of unembodied spirits. Gazing at Medea, he beheld a wonderful intelligence in her face. Privilege has beheld an afflicting spectacle for many years past. Yes, we beheld the Hesperian light that day, and praised Allah. Now Vavasor was in reality not a little disgusted at what he beheld. The savage and the satyr might have beheld, and been awed into reverence. It was no bearded demon that I beheld, but the gipsy patrico, Balthazar. Turning his head, Wegg beheld his persecutor, the ever-wakeful dustman, accoutred with fantail hat and velveteen smalls complete. Again I beheld Mr Clayton immersed in the doings of the place. She can be the most dignified young woman on occasion that I ever beheld. You might have deemed that you beheld Bellona speeding to the fray. She beheld the minister advancing along the path entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside. Mrs. Trevor beheld in him the mellowest and blandest of men. And of a' the beings ever I beheld in breeks, to think it should be you! It was the very place where Spencer had first beheld Camilla. The most interesting sight I ever beheld was in the China Sea. A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar. Heyward lifted his head from the cover, and beheld what he justly considered a prodigy of rashness and skill. At each new visit they beheld a larger pile of wooden chips and a nearer approximation to something beautiful. Show More Sentences Nevertheless, when our poet beheld quiet reestablished to some extent, he devised a stratagem which might have redeemed all. In Zerubbabel the people beheld once more a ruler of the Davidic race. Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on. I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. Twin brass bedsteads occupied the site of the old four-poster from which I had first beheld the light. Such wonder seis'd, though after Heaven seen, The Spirit maligne, but much more envy seis'd At sight of all this World beheld so faire. The further we receded from the object we beheld, the larger became the field of vision. He beheld him sifting his seeds, and soaking them in liquids which were destined to modify or to deepen their colours. Starting and turning round, he beheld a naked savage with a bow bent, and the arrow pointed at his breast. As Catherine finished this epistle, she lifted her eyes and beheld Philip. As the sun became warmer and the light of day longer, the snow vanished, and I beheld the bare trees and the black earth. To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption. I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering. In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen and towering. Francesca saw Paolo arrive, and imagined she beheld her future husband. Francisco turned round and beheld the Krouman, his old friend. Meantime, raising my eyes, I beheld the glitter of a lofty sky above the Diana's mastheads. He rubbed his eyes savagely to clear his vision, and beheld, not a horse, but a great brown bear. Show More Sentences I came near firing when I beheld two shawnees making for the timber. As far as the eye could see I beheld only flattened and shredded ruin. Many other persons also beheld the headless phantom in the palace. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans. On the opposite side they beheld a party of thirty-one savages, which they soon ascertained to be Blackfeet. Thousands beheld him, a week or two ago, on the point of finging himself thence into the street. So spake our Morning Star, then in his rise, And, looking round, on every side beheld A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. They beheld only the stems of the grass waving as if under a gentle wind. Southwardly, on their left, they beheld the Great Salt Lake, spread out like a sea, but they found no stream running into it. He raised his tear-stained face and beheld jocko mounting guard. I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ring fastened to a trapdoor of the same metal. There he beheld an immense concourse of people, filling all the street and rolling onward to his house. Looking down I saw beside me the thinnest kitten I ever beheld. And alone, in the distance, the lonely man beheld his magian brother. And I beheld there the mountains of Malaya and of Paripatra also. The people of Toulon beheld a strange spectacle that winter. Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood. She had beheld the Virgin, she was the chosen one, the martyr. That triple play was the most wonderful thing I ever beheld. The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies... always equally clear. Show More Sentences Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent. Thus Menelaus rejoiced, having beheld with his eyes godlike Alexander. A merrier set of gentlemen not even my experience had ever beheld. Now they beheld a table of solid silver, once the property of an old Spanish grandee. Nor was it possible to misapprehend the meaning of what they beheld. Never, certainly, had I beheld so powerful an exhibition of natural eloquence as Marnoo displayed during the course of his oration. He walked to an angle of the bastion, and beheld the scout advancing, under the custody of a French officer, to the body of the fort. Presently he came to the market-place, and beheld thereon three gallows erected. He gave a gasp of relief when he beheld me, full of life, with my palette on my thumb, gazing fondly on my new canvas. Johnny's eyes gloated when he beheld the prisoner, and he addressed Kennan in evident excitement. He turned, and beheld in the wayfarer his preserver of the previous night. Watching her he beheld the scarlet stain that overspread her face. A step sounded in the woodshed and, turning, she beheld Mr. Parker. From the paddle steamer we beheld a thunderstorm burst over Stamboul. Never had Mr pecksniff been beheld in a more pleasant humour! He beheld them rub their eyes and bodies with a sort of pomade, when, lo! Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy. Pyncheon set down the emptied glass, he thought be beheld his grandfather frown. Long had it been since he had thus beheld the great Tarmangani naked and alone hurtling through the jungle. They were strengthened into certainty when I beheld the Aged enter at a side door, escorting a lady. Show More Sentences Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the little party. Then it was he discovered that the form of Uncas vanished, and that he beheld only the dark outline of an inequality in the embankment. The King of Thessaly looked up, and beheld a most beautiful youth. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it. Like Damocles at his celebrated banquet, Rebecca perpetually beheld, amid that gorgeous display, the sword which was suspended over the heads of her people by a single hair. If he sang of a mountain, the eyes of all mankind beheld a mightier grandeur reposing on its breast, or soaring to its summit, than had before been seen there. Homer was the taller and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for one of his age, and his eyes were the most quick and piercing I ever beheld. As I delivered the blow a low laugh rang out behind me, and, turning, I beheld Tars Tarkas, Sola, and three or four warriors standing in the doorway of the chamber. While busy with these contemplations he heard the rustling of a silken garment, and, turning, beheld Beatrice emerging from beneath the sculptured portal. With no little astonishment, Benassis beheld Genestas pacing to and fro in the salon, like a bumble-bee in quest of an exit from the room which he has incautiously entered. Here I was thrown upon my back, and beheld standing over me a colossal ape-like creature, white and hairless except for an enormous shock of bristly hair upon its head. Bellevigne de l'Etoile nimbly mounted the transverse beam, and in another minute, Gringoire, on raising his eyes, beheld him, with terror, seated upon the beam above his head. Looking that way she beheld a form springing from the coping to the plot. I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching. For in spite of his commonplace exterior life Blake was a thorough mystic to whom the angels and spirits that he beheld in trances were at least as real as the material world. Thanks to the generous care of many loving friends, my little ones had a Christmastide, such a vision of innocent delight as, I believe, few of them ever beheld before. Instantly afterwards, a rapid fire of stones rattles at the Cathedral wall, and the hideous small boy is beheld opposite, dancing in the moonlight. Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our rear. On a train from Paris to Basle one Friday afternoon and packed with commuters, my then lady friend and I beheld an older lady occupying one of our booked seats. He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld. Show More Sentences As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fire worshippers. The Inexhaustible being produced, staring, and evidently intending a weak and washy smile shortly, no sooner beheld her, than it was stricken spasmodic and inconsolable. Alec saw her before she had time to catch cold, for coming out to tie back the door-flap of his tent for more air, he beheld the small figure perched in the moonlight. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result. Here she gave an exclamation of wonder, real or ritual, and looking up at the high garden wall above her, beheld it fantastically bestridden by a somewhat fantastic figure. Ned stopped short, thinking he was to be the victim of a holdup, but his fears were allayed when he beheld one of the police force of Shopton confronting him. Formerly a temple of the Celtic divinities, when Belle-Isle was still called Kalonese, this grotto had beheld more than one human sacrifice accomplished in its mystic depths. We can imagine the enthusiasm of the worthy captain when he beheld the vast and mountainous scene of his adventurous enterprise thus suddenly unveiled before him. A more remarkable face in its quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant, was not to be beheld in all the wide dominions of sleep, that night. Mary, without waiting for any further commands immediately left the room and quickly returned introducing the most beauteous and amiable Youth, I had ever beheld. In every direction they beheld snowy mountains, partially sprinkled with pines and other evergreens, and spreading a desert and toilsome world around them. He beheld, in every direction south of east, a vast plain, bounded only by the horizon, through which wandered the stream in question, in a south-south-east direction. The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers. Find more words! 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