meetness
Example Sentences
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These the deep, tender records, Sacred in all their meetness, That, wakening purest fancies, Soften us with their sweetness; As, gathered where flickering fagots burn, We welcome the holy season's return.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
Did they sit in that dim sweetness Of attained love's after-calm, Marking not the world—its meetness, Marking Time not, nor his fleetness, Only happy, palm to palm?
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
Be it ours, like Lazarus, to attain a meetness for heaven, by becoming more and more like Lazarus’ Redeemer!
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
“And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?” demanded the little girl, laughing.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Elizabeth Jones has since died, and has left ample testimony to her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and her meetness to appear in the presence of God, through the merit of her Saviour.
From The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
