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Sentence Examples
In one corner of the dressing room, Tilly wails upon beholding her face under the harsh strip lights.
We may represent large ethnic communities in our ridings or be politically beholding in one way or another.
A partial answer to this is that mere things only present themselves to mere beholding, but mere beholding is only a deficient mode of concern or engagement.
Many Southern NGOs doubt that significant resources can be raised locally, and fear becoming beholding to local interests.
As a viewer, one began the journey beholding Wesley's monstrous condition and, by default, treating Wesley as something of a monster too.
But I have come in spirit so that you may avoid the affront of beholding the work of those who judged and sentenced me on earth.
As such the film evokes the pleasure of beholding an actor perform a part with nothing forced in it, one that Michael Caine dons like a favorite suit.
The beauty of the horizon's distant interstitial line in turn inaccurately replicates the beholding implied by Winnicottian nearliness.
What merit would you find in beholding the humanized Jesus as a vision in the form of a man, when your spirit, through love, faith, and sensitivity, can sense Me, infinite and perfect in my divine essence?
Well sung brother, you have paid your debt in good coyn, we Anglers are all beholding to the good man that made this Song.
Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
In my charity for him I have created that veil between his present and his future, preventing him from loosing his mind knowing and beholding all which he will have to live and feel.
Thirdly, he must have strange terms and emphatical words … Fourthly, … such gestures of body as may lead away the spectators eyes from a strict and diligent beholding his manner of conveyance.
Considering the comfort slave-owners in the American South drew from scripture, a selective biblical quotation comes to mind: the one about beholding the mote in thy brother's eye without perceiving the beam in thine own.
I remember another painting by Friedrich, in which two women, also with their backs turned, appear to steady each other while beholding a harbor scene forested with masts and distant Gothic spires.
They expected nothing of the world, for they were awaiting, at the end of the struggle, the joy of beholding the resurrection of the faith and the life of the spirits of all those who had died to truth.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.
I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.
So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.
Examples from Classical Literature
I must bear witness to my conviction that we are beholding a tremendous inrush or uprush of good into man and his world.
Merton Gill thrilled with the knowledge that he was beholding his first close-up.
At the noise of footsteps she raised her head, and shuddered on beholding Jean.
The ordinary golfer, whose head is not too full of modern architectural ideas, would jump with joy on first beholding Prestwick.
Agias was full of protestations of delight at beholding his intercessor and ransomer.
Jay's joy at beholding Bernardine was so great they almost feared for his life.
It was like beholding a dainty flower in the grime and brutality of the branding pen.
It was Alischar, and smaragdine had nigh swooned away with the joy of beholding him.
It is a picture of horror, which I should have as little pleasure in drawing as you in beholding.
And no thought of impurity came to him on beholding that lily, snowy whiteness.
In the meantime they are happy in their hopes, and for this also they are beholding to me.
Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy, the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
Gilberte gave a little scream of delight on beholding Henriette.
But on beholding the laundress' besotted face, she tremblingly drew back.
On beholding him Gervaise uttered such a deep wailing that he awoke.
On beholding such a scene she was seized with a furious indignation.
He says, for Brutus' sake,70 He finds himself beholding to us all.
It was a gladsome spectacle, and his eyes sparkled in beholding it.
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I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.
I waken in the morning with a secret pleasure at beholding the light.
So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it.
There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk.
I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.
The eyes did not notice me, but sparkled with glee on beholding Sancho, my beautiful black and white setter, that was coursing about the field with its muzzle to the ground.
He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
Neither could he be willing to depart without again beholding Clifford, whose sensibility, like Phoebe's smile, had talked a kind of heart's language to the foreigner.
And what would a sub-chanter of the sixteenth century say, on beholding the beautiful yellow wash, with which our archiepiscopal vandals have desmeared their cathedral?
Beholding the dice favourable to the wishes of Sakuni in odds and evens, I could have controlled my mind.
