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  • The men just grinned at each other, too beat to even cheer, but many at least slapped Phrynus on the shoulder, some touching his bronze hand in reverence.

    The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • I would be willing to consider the possibility that the HP books treat the school experience with a certain reverence.

    Go flame her Roger Sutton 2008

  • "Stumpy was a goddess, there's no other way to put it," Peter said, lowering his voice in reverence.

    Excerpt: The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey 2005

  • They curse his name, but with a certain reverence.

    identity 2005

  • I hear voices pass the word back and forth in reverence.

    Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

  • Her ambitions for her husband are high -- but she still holds the position of Rav in reverence.

    Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman: Questions 1998

  • Holding a President to strict accountability requires, first of all, a new attitude on the part of the American people toward their Presidents, or rather a return to the more skeptical attitude of earlier times: it requires, specifically, a decline in reverence.

    The Runaway Presidency 1973

  • Holding a President to strict accountability requires, first of all, a new attitude on the part of the American people toward their Presidents, or rather a return to the more skeptical attitude of earlier times: it requires, specifically, a decline in reverence.

    The Runaway Presidency 1973

  • I am making arrangements to re-visit the Wall, and there I will place it, in reverence.

    Jerry Lynn Pool 1970

  • He must have men above him to whom - he can aspire and before whom he can stand in reverence.

    Democracy or Bolshevism 1919

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