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Example sentences for "risen"

Lexicographically close words:
rire; ris; risa; risaldar; rise; riser; risers; rises; risest; riseth
  1. The lady, so perceiving, had risen to make another tour of the salons, when an incident occurred that broke down the barrier of formal courtesy which had hitherto restrained the two enamoured youths.

  2. This seemed an easy task for him, for the rumors concerning the risen one, fearsome and strange as they were, failed to convey the whole truth and only vaguely hinted at something' dreadful.

  3. His native land had learned to execrate the odious name of the miraculously risen one, and the mere news of his dread approach was sufficient to scatter the people.

  4. The moon had already risen when Jesus started towards Mount Olivet where he was wont of late to pass his nights.

  5. There was no need of the plebiscite; every man in the popular assembly had risen to his feet, and from top to bottom it became filled with standing men.

  6. When a dim rumor concerning Lazarus reached his ear, he consulted his wife and friends and undertook the long journey to Judea in order to see him who had so miraculously risen from the dead.

  7. What he had heard concerning the risen one did not deter him, for he had pondered much upon death, though he had no longing for it.

  8. From the West comes the news of terrible dissensions, of batties, of a crazed portion of the people who had seceded and risen in arms against their mother, the Freedom.

  9. In this fateful encounter with the risen one he chose not to lean upon the feeble aid of men.

  10. No one came near the place where the miraculously risen one was passing the end of his days, and his neighbors had long since forsaken their abodes.

  11. Thus succumbed to the stolid gaze of the miraculously risen one all things that served to affirm life, its meaning and its joys.

  12. Busy with the affairs of state the Emperor delayed receiving him and the miraculously risen one for seven days in succession paid visits to those who would see him.

  13. Some unknown, who had evidently just risen from sleep, for he was covered with only a blanket, excitedly scurried to and fro in the crowd of warriors and servitors.

  14. When Father Vassily had risen to his feet it was already light, and a ray of sunshine, long and ruddy, clung like a bright colored blotch to the petrified raiment of the deceased.

  15. The slave who had grown tired waiting for his master called for him when the sun had already risen high overhead.

  16. The breeze, which at sunset had risen with a certain strength, was gently dying out, scarce bending the tops of the great trees.

  17. Elizabeth had risen from the table and now she stood on the rug before the fire, with her arms behind her, looking down at the breakfast-table and her father.

  18. He had something of the wild duck about him; for before they could get more than near at hand, he had looked up, looked round, and risen to greet them.

  19. He had risen from his chair to speak this.

  20. He might come soon, or he might not; for it was early, and he might not know whether she was awake and risen yet.

  21. Elizabeth made no answer; she had risen up to go; and he guided her through the halls and down the staircases, till she was in the open street again.

  22. The wave of prosperity had risen up to his very lips, and its ripples were forever breaking there in a succession of easy smiles.

  23. It was over; and Mrs. Landholm had risen from the tea-board and stood by the window.

  24. He had risen to power by the sympathy of these men.

  25. He has risen in life by the lack of too powerful qualities, and by a certain tact, which enables him to take advantage of circumstances and opportunities, and avail himself of his unobjectionableness, just at the proper time.

  26. If St. Paul's were to be burnt again (having already been bunt and risen three or four times since the sixth century), I wonder whether it would ever be rebuilt in the same spot!

  27. This is not the only time that I have received an important lesson from a humble source.

  28. Some time thereafter he married the second daughter of Paterson of Wester and Easter Inshes, the eldest being married to Cuthbert of Macbeth's Castlehill, now known as the Crown lands, possessed by Mr. Fraser of Abertarff.

  29. His foot was on the ladder, and many men with less chances than he had risen to the top.

  30. After he had given her the history of that midnight walk, he saw clearly that he had risen to a higher plane in her esteem.

  31. Never had little Lucy risen to such a moment; never again, perhaps, could she so rise.

  32. The pale wintry sun touched her bent head, her deftly moving hand, and that device of the risen Christ circled in golden flame on which she was at work.

  33. The wind, a stormy north-easter, had risen since the afternoon.

  34. He had risen to point out the tree, and she had followed him.

  35. He had risen from the floor, and he pointed eastward through the open kitchen doorway.

  36. Those heroes, displaying celestial and mighty weapons, covered Bhima with shafts, like clouds shrouding the risen sun.

  37. That shaft, thus sped by the mighty prince in that fierce and dreadful battle, illumined the whole army like the risen sun.

  38. Passing over those troops with some difficulty, Dhananjaya then shone brightly like the risen sun, transgressing the clouds under which it was hid.

  39. Krishna is the root of the Pandavas, and Partha is like their risen trunk.

  40. The two warriors then, smeared with red sandal-paste with many a wound caused by each other's arrows, and covered also with gore, looked resplendent like the risen sun and the moon.

  41. In childhood, he also slew with his two bare arms, the Danava, in the form of a bull, of terrible deeds, and risen like Death himself unto all the kine.

  42. Drona), invoking celestial weapons into the existence, shone resplendent like the risen sun.

  43. Phalguna, however, will quell this risen pride of thine.

  44. Partha like two risen clouds pouring torrents of rain on a mountain.

  45. Aswatthaman, aiming the Vayavya weapon, destroyed that blue cloud which had risen on the firmament.

  46. The Inspector General's Department has risen to the highest standards and throughout has ably assisted commanders in the enforcement of discipline.

  47. The proportion of officers who have risen from the ranks or who have been commissioned from civilian life is higher in the Marine Corps than in either the Army or the Navy.

  48. How would our sin-stained earth arise and shine, her light being come, and the glory of the Lord being risen upon her!

  49. Like the genius of my native land, he had risen above every storm, unfettered and FREE.

  50. He has risen to the head of his class, and appears to remain there without any extraordinary effort.

  51. Nor would one have suddenly risen in court and have acted as counsel for a gipsy!

  52. His Christian knowledge of Christ dates from his vision of the Risen Lord on the way to Damascus, and in that appearance there was no room for anything that could be called "flesh.

  53. It is a conviction of the divine love which cannot be shaken, and of its sovereignty and omnipotence in the Risen Christ.

  54. When Paul thinks of it, he does not look back, he looks up; he does not remember, he beholds in a glass; the glory of the Lord has no meaning for him apart from the present exaltation of the Risen Christ.

  55. He has risen to a great height, poetic and spiritual, in speaking of the Lord of glory, and of the light which shines from His face for the illumining and redemption of men.

  56. Some Eurasians have, it may be noted, had decorations or knighthood conferred on them, and risen to the highest position in, and gained the blue ribbon of, Government service.

  57. In the year 1817, the desire to buy land and build upon it, had risen to a mania in this place.

  58. The water in the Ohio had risen very much for some days, and poured with force into the Mississippi; this circumstance assisted our progress, since above the junction we had a weaker stream to contend with.

  59. He awaits The rising sun, and places with a smile This risen sun athwart his history!

  60. For now he's risen again in you; and since He whispers in your ear like dull remorse, All's over with you: he will show no mercy.

  61. I hated thee for pitilessly soaring Above the fields which witnessed our defeats, Half-circle, seeming on the ruddy sky The orb half-risen of some sable sun!

  62. Seven little islands, green and bare, Have risen from out the deep: The fishers say those sisters fair By fairies are all buried there, And there together sleep.

  63. Had the poet known they were the last lines he should write, had he foreseen that these were the last accents of his message, it is impossible to imagine that he could have risen higher than he has done in Reverie and the "Epilogue.

  64. While thinking of the children's curses she had risen from her seat.

  65. Dion, the former head of the society, had been welcomed like a beloved brother risen from the dead, and he had the gratification, after so long a time, of turning the scale as speaker in a debate.

  66. But after the latter had risen to a high place in Antony's favour, and been loaded with gold by his lavish hand, Philostratus had again approached him to claim his share of the new wealth.

  67. The white mounds which had risen there had been recognized as tents, even from the Serpent Island.

  68. The scene had risen clearly before his mind, but scarcely had the radiant vision of the future faded when the unusually bright expression of his manly face was clouded by a grave and troubled one.

  69. The words were jerked out to conceal a sigh which had risen involuntarily.

  70. It was about an hour before sundown when the eagle had risen and fled, and the sunset light found the girl who had watched it still standing in the same place.

  71. She ranked it as ill tidings that her father's land had risen in value.

  72. As they walked at different paces, and passing each other at irregular times, perhaps the mind of each recurred to the remembrance of the other ghostly incident and the rumour that the old man had already risen once.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    risen again; risen from the dead