divineness

Example Sentences

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Now he sees, that with every accession of the personal divine to him, some great land-slide of the general surrounding divineness slips from him, and falls crashing away.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

And he then adds: “By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! behold divineness No elder than a boy.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Oh! if I could add, a full sense of the divineness of the thing, I should say all.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

I might speak to you in like manner of the divineness of manhood and of womanhood, and of the divineness of old age.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John

You must love the uninspired poems for the sake of the divineness of the inspired poems.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von