meek soul

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

She was fond of Aunt Chatty—a meek soul, born to be tyrannized over, and tyrannized over, from her very cradle.

From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes

This will be no place for a quiet, meek soul like me!’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He is stalwart, who is meek; for all ghostly strength comes of meekness;—on whom rests the Holy Ghost? in a meek soul.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

Then her meek soul bowed before the faith that was in her and she knelt for her shy but reverent evening prayer.

From Marcia Schuyler by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill

And so—the Bank of England is the richer by a hundred pounds unclaimed, and the world the poorer by a simple and meek soul stung to revolt only in its last hour.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold