hold in respect
Example Sentences
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Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
Paris, the impregnable, vanquished by famine, is no longer able to hold in respect the German hordes.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
Georgie guessed that Hermy was making a humourous allusion to Foljambe, who was the one person in Riseholme whom his two sisters seemed to hold in respect.
From Queen Lucia by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
He could not hold in respect the man who, it seemed to him, had betrayed his friends.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them.
From A Voyage to the Moon by Tucker, George
