Example Sentences

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What a comfort it is that I have got the last edition of that precious work of the divine Theodosius on Dignities!

From Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts by Morris, Lewis, Sir

Why well: Neuer so truly happy, my good Cromwell, I know my selfe now, and I feele within me, A peace aboue all earthly Dignities, A still, and quiet Conscience.

From Henry VIII by Shakespeare, William

He is represented to have been a busy, meddling and troublesome man, which was the reason, as it is supposed, why he never rose to higher Dignities in the Church.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John

For Britain and Erin clubbed their Sees To make it a Dance of Dignities, And I saw—oh brightest of Church events!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Dignities and honours were frequently offered him, but he succeeded in avoiding them all.

From On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Pope, Hugh