Use prayers in a sentence
Sentences starting with prayers
- Prayers were tried, but 'I never realised any physical relief from that source. [5]
- Prayers were tried, but "I never realized any physical relief from that source. [5]
- Prayers had been asked in the churches for more than a hundred sick in a single day, and this many times. [3]
Sentences ending with prayers
- Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. [11]
- Several of them were caught and confined in the fort, and, guarded, were conducted to the morning and evening prayers. [4]
- We were invited to witness their noonday prayers. [4]
- The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers. [5]
- Dared she defy the Most High, the Lord in whom she put her trust, into whose hand she commended herself in a thousand dumb but fervent prayers. [10]
- The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers. [5]
- He turned to the crucifix, and, prostrating himself before the spare, agonizing shape of the Holy Sufferer, fell into a long passion of tears and broken prayers. [6]
- But his physical strength was exhausted, so he summoned his companions who pushed forward a rock on which he seated himself, in order to assail the heart of the Most High with fresh prayers. [10]
- I helped the ship along all I could with my prayers. [5]
- And my wife, she came of the purest stock of Aquitaine, and she was constant, in her prayers. [11]
Short sentences using prayers
- The prayers had helped him. [10]
Sentences containing prayers two or more times
- And it was the same during Paulina's prayers as during her instruction, prayers that often lasted more than hour, and which she had to attend, on her knees on Wednesday and Friday, and with hands uplifted on all the other days of the week. [10]
More example sentences with the word prayers in them
- Have you said your prayers tonight, Madam Amelia? [5]
- Tom turned in without the added vexation of prayers, and Sid made mental note of the omission. [5]
- He would sit with them at night, pondering with a secret satisfaction, they could see, upon the flight that he and she would take before night came again; and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, 'Lord! [12]
- A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
- The prayers to which she surrendered herself most of all were those of repentance. [2]
- Every year festivals were kept, with prayers and sacrifices, to the 'love of the brothers. [10]
- But their prayers were brief, for the tumult came nearer and nearer; Apollodorus wrung his hands, and struck his fist against his forehead; his movements were violent--spasmodic. [10]
- In this hot weather we are up before sunrise; then we said our prayers and had our morning broth; then. [10]
- When the battle was over, the Persians returned in triumph to their tents, to be warmly welcomed by Croesus and the warriors and priests who had remained behind, and to celebrate their victory by prayers and sacrifices. [10]
- Tears and prayers was had recourse to, but was of no manner of use. [5]
- We want the virile energy of determination which made the oath of Andrew Jackson sound so like the devotion of an ardent saint that the recording angel might have entered it unquestioned among the prayers of the faithful. [6]
- When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
- Before they broke up, owing to prayers the weather was overcast. [4]
- It was not until prayers were over and the solemn gathering seated at the breakfast table that Mr. Spence burst upon it like an aurora. [9]
- Their prayers had unnerved him, had got into that corner of his nature where youth and its irresponsibility loitered yet. [11]
- Turning her face to the wall, she was in the act of repeating her prayers as her niece entered. [9]
- The gods hearken to the prayers of those who die innocent. [10]
- What prayers rose to heaven, and curses sank to hell, when the news of them came to the city by the river! [9]
- I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair. [5]
- Jake was content to borrow a cut of tobacco from the superintendent and wonder aimlessly around the farm until Mr. Sutton's family prayers and breakfast were accomplished. [9]
- She had forgotten to ask the name of the poor man, their friend, and when she had remembered him in her prayers, it seemed ungrateful not to turn one look towards the spot where he was watching. [12]
- She had nothing to aid him save her prayers and the execution of the heavy sacrifice which she had resolved to make. [10]
- For the first time it had been impossible to sleep even a few short moments, and when she heard from the neighbouring cloister the ringing of the little bell that summoned the nuns to prayers, she could stay in bed no longer. [10]
- Do not forget thy prayers, my sweet. [12]
- It was as though the prayers of the two souls had united to mount upwards together. [10]
- No moment of this time should be darkened for him by the tears and prayers of his bride. [10]
- That you believe this I doubt not, and believing it, I shall still receive, for our country and myself your earnest prayers to our Father in Heaven. [7]
- When she understood them her personal feeling became interwoven in the prayers with shades of its own. [2]
- Before they separated, the schoolmaster read some prayers aloud; and then, full of gratitude and happiness, they parted for the night. [12]
- During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
- In almost all the prayers with which she was acquainted, there was a reference to the life after death. [10]
- Each saw that the other had been in long conflict with some trial; for their voices were low and tender, as patiently borne sorrow and humbly uttered prayers make every human voice. [6]
- First thing in the morning when he stayed with me he asked about family prayers, whether we had 'em before or after breakfast. [5]
- We will beseech the immortals with prayers and sacrifices to restore sight to your artist eyes. [10]
- They must sing the hymns and pray the prayers provided by her, and use no others in the services, except by her permission. [5]
- Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator? [10]
- The contents of that old glove will buy him the willing service of many an adroit sinner, and with what that coarse sack contains he can purchase the prayers of holy men for all succeeding time. [6]
- It is written that a woman's prayers are of no avail, that her lord must save her at the last, if she hath a soul to be saved. [11]
- There was a temple devoted to prayers for rain--and with fine sagacity it was placed at a point so well up on the mountain side that if you prayed there twenty-four times a day for rain you would be likely to get it every time. [5]
- Loving friends, With tears of trembling faith and choking sobs, And prayers to those who judge of mortal deeds, Wrapped this poor image in the cerement's fold That Isis and Osiris, friends of man, Might know their own and claim the ransomed soul An idol? [6]
- Then, instead of stillness, moans and shrieks from above and below, oaths and prayers in English and French and Portuguese, and in the heathen gibberish of the East. [9]
- Thursday had seen South Carolina leave that Union into which she was born, amid prayers and the ringing of bells. [9]
- He was baptized, so she longs to win, by her prayers and oblations, the mercy of the Lord who is so ready to forgive. [10]
- Your Bishop has shot a half dozen men, an' it wasn't through prayers of his that they recovered. [13]
- She washed, dressed, said her prayers, and went out to the porch. [2]
- Eva's prayers before retiring were often very long, but to-night it seemed as if they would never end. [10]
- The hours of retiring for the night had always been early in the Parsonage; now family prayers were at eight o'clock; directly after which Mr. Bronte and old Tabby went to bed, and Martha was not long in following. [14]
- However, to my relief she was presently interrupted by the call to prayers. [5]
- Churches --selected its readings, its prayers, and the hymns to be used, and has appointed the order of procedure. [5]
- I shouldn't have put myself in this painful position, I assure you, but that the lad himself desired to be brought here in the first instance, and I yielded to his prayers. [12]
- Whereupon, despite her protests and prayers for forgiveness, Virginia took to her mare again and galloped off. [9]
- The prince and princess, the ladies of the court, and the prelates and friars who were present, did the same; and the effect of the prayers of these illustrious and saintly persons was immediately apparent. [4]
- While yet the priest was hastily reading prayers, a dusty horseman came riding to the grave, and dismounted. [11]
- You have some prayers, I hope. [11]
- They said their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. [5]
- In all her prayers she included the name of the handsome heathen and a soft tenderness in which a gentle pity was often infused, a grief for his unredeemed soul, was inseparable from all her thoughts of him. [10]
- Deaf to the prayers of friends, to the sermons and warnings of the church, to the calls of duty, to the pleadings of his better nature, he is touched by the tree-toad. [4]
- The sermon and perhaps the prayers were quite as enjoyable in Gaelic as in English, and the singing was a great improvement. [4]
- Upon this charming perch, the old Carthusian monks took the summer breezes and the winter sun, pruned their olives, and trimmed their grapevines, and said prayers for the poor sinners toiling in the valleys below. [4]
- Drunken soldiers staggered past me; hags begged for sous or bread at corners; and devoted priests and long-robed Recollet monks, cowled and alert, hurried past, silent, and worn with labours, watchings, and prayers. [11]
- When he died, Parpon was nearer to him than the priest, and he loved to hear the dwarf chant his wild rhythms of the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills, more than to listen to holy prayers. [11]
- We've been friends one way and another, and my heart aches for you, and my prayers go with you. [11]
- Their companion, however, on the other side of the boat, was eloquent in prayers to be rescued. [11]
- Prayers, tears, torturings of the flesh, all was vain to beguile that water to flow again. [5]
- Despite the presence of the commander in chief, who attracted the attention of all the superior officers, the militiamen and soldiers continued their prayers without looking at him. [2]
- She often thought of her sister too, and uttered many prayers for her. [10]
- Glimpses I caught of faces that have come Through crowding ages; whisperings of songs; And prayers for the redress of human wrongs From voices that upon the earth are dumb. [11]
- He thought more of Charley than of himself, and every month now he went to confession, and every day he said his prayers. [11]
- I could do nothing with Antoinette, Monsieur, and she would not listen to my entreaties, my prayers, my commands. [9]
- Platon Karataev knew nothing by heart except his prayers. [2]
- To crawl is not to worship; we have learned A drill of eyelids, bended neck and knee, Hanging our prayers on binges, till we ape The flexures of the many-jointed worm. [6]
- If I were not afraid of disturbing her, and if I were worthy, how gladly would I join my prayers to hers! [10]
- But this particular night Wassef was bitter, and watched with stolid indifference the going down of the sun, the time when he usually said his prayers. [11]
- Or thou, beloved, never come to me, Save but to whisper prayers above the dead? [11]
- Thus he withstood my fondest prayers, till he granted so much as that Ann should come and speak for herself or ever he should leave the house. [10]
- She could and must atone for her sin and his by prayers and pious exercises. [10]
- Here a devout Muslim, indifferent to the presence of strangers, turned his face to the East, touched his forehead to the ground, and said his prayers. [11]
- Vex not the Muse with idle prayers, --She will not hear thy call; She steals upon thee unawares, Or seeks thee not at all. [6]
- The sadness of Mr. Bernard had sunk into the heart of Helen, and she mingled many tears with her prayers that evening, earnestly entreating that he might be comforted in his days of trial and protected in his hour of danger. [6]
- Grief for her loss, repentance for not having devoted herself faithfully enough to her, and the hope that in the convent her prayers might obtain a special place in the world beyond for the beloved sleeper, now revived her wish to take the veil. [10]
- I have long led this man's prayers, and never have I heard him crave for noble gifts, but a thousand times for the injury of the men he hates. [10]
- He was now leaning with bowed head against the wall, both hands clasped under his beardless chin, and might have been taken for a monk repeating his prayers. [10]
- But ah, dear, it won't last; this fiendish malady will play new treacheries upon her, and I shall go back to my prayers again--unutterable from any pulpit! [5]
- Surely now the Inglesi was altogether mad, and to-day, this day after prayers at noon, he should be shot like a mad dog, for yesterday's defeat had turned some of his own adherent sheikhs into angry critics. [11]
- Their prayers are indexes which do not correspond with their character. [5]
- All was bustle in the town, and prayers and work went on without ceasing. [11]
- He stood up in church every Sunday and read his prayers, like a faithful old sinner as he was. [4]
- The other day I offered to read prayers morning and evening for the captain, and last night commenced. [5]
- How I returned home I know not; but I know that I had rarely knelt at my prayers with such fervent thanksgiving, and that meseemed as though my mother in Heaven and my dead Hans likewise must rejoice at this which had befallen me. [10]
- He, Kosmas, and his two surviving comrades had effected their escape, while Apelles engaged the foe; but from a rocky height which they climbed in their flight they saw him fall, and from that hour they had always mentioned him in their prayers. [10]
- He spends all his remarkable eloquence in trying to persuade her, that she must forget this world entirely and only try to gain the favor of Osiris and the judges of the nether world by ceaseless prayers and sacrifices. [10]
- In the monastery his prayers will remove the guilt of him who gave him life. [10]
- He was at his prayers when Charley went to tell him of his purpose. [11]
- Deacon Moses Hatch, his chores done and his breakfast and prayers completed, fought his way with his head down through a white waste to the meeting-house door, and unlocked it, and shivered as he made the fire. [9]
- At the waterside, here and there devout Mahommedans were saying their prayers, now standing, now bowing towards the east, now kneeling and touching the ground with the forehead. [11]
- John was to her the embodied fulfilment of the most ardent prayers. [10]
- Her eyes and her prayers followed the form of her husband. [9]
- The countess finished her prayers and came to the bed with a stern face, but seeing, that Natasha's head was covered, she smiled in her kind, weak way. [2]
- Lindy held them, her own body rocking with grief, her lips murmuring endearments, prayers, supplications. [9]
- His wife added her entreaties and tears; but a sudden chill had gripped Agne's heart; dry-eyed and rigid she resisted their prayers, and took leave of her benefactors and of Papias. [10]
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