Example Sentences

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And those quaint old fragments that are left us Have their power in this,—the Carver brought Earnest care, and reverent patience, only Worthily to clothe some noble thought.

From Legends and Lyrics Part 2 by Procter, Adelaide Anne

O, had the gods done so, I had not now Worthily term'd them merciless to us!

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

God upon His throne then to proclaim, Him, the life-fount's mighty Lord, to name, Worthily to prize that glorious sight, And to wander on beneath His light.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

Worthily thou bearest arrows and bow, worthily, O worshipful, the golden, variegated chain; worthily thou cuttest every fiend here to pieces, for there is nothing indeed stronger than thou, O Rudra.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

Worthily do these colossal Tritons and sea-horses commemorate the great achievement of modern Marseilles; namely, the conveying of a river to its very doors.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda