adoration

• For some six or eight enthusiastic years, I was saturated with Carlyle; I thought Carlyle and talked and wrote in unconscious Carlylese, and one day when in the library at the British Museum I got an actual bodily sight of my deity, I was translated into a heaven of adoration which is really, at this time of day, pathetic to remember. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• The dog's eyes were raised to those of his master in a kind of adoration, and his tail waved triumphantly. —  Patsy
• The imperfect music of your adoration will be answered and reinforced by another music, gentle, deep, and strange; your out-going movement, the stretching forth of your desire from yourself to something other, will be answered by a movement, a stirring, within you yet not conditioned by you. —  Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
• This is what has been done by other sects such as the Sikhs and Dhamis, whose founders eschewed the veneration of idols; but their uneducated followers could not dispense with some visible symbol for their adoration, and hence the sacred script has been enthroned in a temple. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
• Every day the devoted animal would stand at the door and gaze at Mimi with adoration--ah! —  The Belovéd Vagabond

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