Prayers

Examples

• Then I remembered all at once that I had not said my prayers that morning. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She thought about him the very first moment on waking; and his was the very last name mentioned in her prayers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Tom, therefore, remained behind, with a few who had learned of him to pray, and offered up prayers for the escape of the fugitives. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Prayers and invocations would be made. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And then I said my prayers and thought a little more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He would have prayers in the house, I believe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And if prayers have efficacy, yours will benefit me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Dreadful doubt and anguish--prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable--followed the regiment. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My picture was in her room, and I was in her prayers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Prayers were always read in it by the domestic chaplain, within the memory of many; but the late Mr. Rushworth left it off. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He is a sort of man I think I could be wicked enough to say my prayers to. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Name the price that you put _your_ prayers at! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When I had said my prayers, and when I was undressed and laid down, I felt that I still had friends. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis. Plato. The Republic.
• The room in which he sat was very sacred ground to her; she seldom intruded on it; and to-night she kept aloof till the bell rang for prayers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Far in New England that mother had trained her only son, with long, unwearied love, and patient prayers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Just start your prayers or poetry or something when they tell you to breathe deeply. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Half-an-hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Do you say your prayers night and morning? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was doing it again and improving on the manner, at prayers, in his mental arithmetic, all through his questioning, all through the day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One wishes it were not so; but I have not yet left Oxford long enough to forget what chapel prayers are. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She was not sorry when, at ten o'clock, the servants filed in to prayers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Lenore