godship

Example Sentences

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And I drew costumes From French engravings, nereides neatly draped, With smirks of simpering godship.

From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

It is seldom his godship will be coaxed into a gift; and if he is attempted to be forced, he can use his lame leg, and send the rough worshipper to the devil.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

If a man disprove his godship out of his own mouth, we shall not be convinced by a coin in a fish's mouth or by his raising Lazarus, four days dead.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

His godship was very discriminating in the goodness and freshness of these offerings; for he rejected such as were stale, to be returned next morning, with his maledictions, to the fraudulent donors.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

“Thither I rise, whilst thou—Zeus, keep the godship and sink!”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward