| It is delightful to think of him, as one of the favored few who breathed his own spirit, prayerfully and praisefully, into the plastic elements of the new order of things in church and state. |
| But John soon reconciled her to it by accompanying her regularly to the kirk and especially by speaking ever praisefully of Mr. John Bell and his sermons. |
| As they sauntered through the village's contrasts of pigmy and colossal in architecture, they praisefully took in the unalloyed holiday character of the place. |
| He dropped no hint that he knew her to be humble in her position, spoke praisefully of her pleasant face, her smiling eyes, and her graceful figure. |
| The primary object often appears to be complimentary to the author or praisefully useful to booksellers, for whose benefit a few choice sentences or paragraphs are inserted. |
| He never mentions his native country except tenderly and praisefully, and he goes too far, the reviewer believes, in exonerating and praising whatever the Hapsburgs have done. |
