Sentence Examples

1. There was a lull in the noises of insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a devotional pause.
2. The leisure hours left to me after I had given the requisite orders to the head-shepherds, overseers, and other labourers, I passed in such employments as are not only allowable but necessary for young girls, those that the needle, embroidery cushion, and spinning wheel usually afford, and if to refresh my mind I quitted them for a while, I found recreation in reading some devotional book or playing the harp, for experience taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and relieves weariness of spirit.
3. I pass my life with my wife, children, and friends my pursuits are hunting and fishing, but I keep neither hawks nor greyhounds, nothing but a tame partridge or a bold ferret or two I have six dozen or so of books, some in our mother tongue, some Latin, some of them history, others devotional those of chivalry have not as yet crossed the threshold of my door I am more given to turning over the profane than the devotional, so long as they are books of honest entertainment that charm by their style and attract and interest by the invention they display, though of these there are very few in Spain.