Palace, I confess that I, for one — looking at his jolly round face, his broad round waistcoat, his hearty country manner, — expected that I had lighted upon a most eligible and agreeable acquaintance at last, and was about to become intimate with that noblest specimen of the human race, the bepraised of songs and men, the good old English country gentleman. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Its existence obviously dates from the time when people used their fists more than their heads, when priestcraft had enchained the human intellect, the much bepraised Middle Age, with its system of chivalry. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Those studies also, which were accounted commendable, had a view to excelling in the courts of litigation; the more bepraised, the craftier. ❋ Unknown (1999)
I cannot vouch for the truth of the story, but it was seized upon to intensify the growing aversion to the whilom bepraised product of Colonial enterprise. ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)
"Squirk," -- after another glass or two of this bepraised beverage, which, at the same time, did not seem altogether to suit the taste of the two patrons of the arts and sciences, the gentlemen adjourned to the drawing-room, from which music had been sounding for a considerable time. ❋ Various (N/A)
But at present Dol bepraised his moccasins; for they had enabled him to sneak upon his birds, the wildest of the duck tribe, who generally, at a single hoarse "Quack!" from their leader, will cease their antics in lake or stream, and disappear like a skimming breeze before a sportsman can get a fair shot at them. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)
This is the ideal style of coiffure much bepraised by man, because, according to a bright modern Amazon, "it makes a woman look so meek." ❋ Dorothy Quigley (N/A)
The 'beautiful blue Danube' has been so bepraised that to a traveller who visits it for its scenic attractions it is likely to prove a bitter disappointment. ❋ James Samuelson (N/A)
Everybody in the full tide of the eighteenth century had something to do with Voltaire, from serious personages like Frederick the Great and Turgot, down to the sorriest poetaster who sent his verses to be corrected or bepraised. ❋ Morley, John (1905)
Tennyson, bepraised by Gladstone (mainly, it is true, because neither of these well-meaning gentlemen had ever been there), now fell from her high position. ❋ Unknown (1903)
At his private audience he congratulated and bepraised Martius and acclaimed his prowess. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
In excuse of which we may quote Mr. Carlyle against himself, reminding him of a saying in Goethe once bepraised by him in print, -- "we must take care of the beautiful for the useful will take care of itself." ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
It was, he tells us, universally admired in manuscript -- he recited it many hundred times to men, women, and children, and always with an electrical effect -- it was bepraised by most of the great Poets of the day -- and for twenty years he was urged to give it to the world. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
His prowess has been extolled in novels and upon the stage; his ride to York is still bepraised for a feat of miraculous courage and endurance; the death of Black Bess has drawn floods of tears down the most callous cheeks. ❋ Unknown (1896)
His prowess has been extolled in novels and upon the stage; his ride to York is still bepraised for a feat of miraculous courage and endurance; the death of ❋ Charles Whibley (1894)
The Lower Engadine, though infinitely less bepraised and crowded with illustrious tourists than the Upper, seems to me quite charming. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Hardly any man, and certainly no politician, has been so bepraised as ❋ Augustine Birrell (1891)
So Koll took up the tale and greatly bepraised Gudruda's beauty; nor in truth, for all his talk, could he praise it too much. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
It is simpler, less morbid, sultry and languorous, therefore saner, than the much bepraised study in C sharp minor, No. 7, op. ❋ James Huneker (1890)
