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Example sentences for "worthy"

Lexicographically close words:
worthless; worthlesse; worthlessness; worths; worthwhile; worthye; worts; wos; wost; wostow
  1. He is a man,' replied Longinus, 'hardly worthy to be named in this connection and this presence at all.

  2. Would that I could set down the noble sentiments which, in the midst of so much that I could not approve, came from her lips in a language worthy of her great teacher!

  3. Besides, I would that Rome should see with her own eyes who it is has held even battle with Roman legions so long, that they may judge me to have had a worthy antagonist.

  4. His head, slightly bald, but cast in the truest mould of manly beauty, would have done honor to any of his illustrious ancestors; and his figure was entirely worthy of that faultless crown.

  5. All Rome cannot furnish a woman more truly Roman than Fausta, nor a man more worthy that name than Gracchus.

  6. Nothing can be more exact than these resemblances, and the workmanship is worthy the hand of Demetrius the Greek.

  7. Friendship is a sentiment worthy godlike natures, and is the true sweetener of the cup of life.

  8. Would that Aurelian had thought women worthy his regard so much as to have made me a prisoner too.

  9. If it please you, accompany us now to some other part of our palace, and it will be strange if we cannot find something worthy of your regard.

  10. I am not worthy to touch the hem of her garment, Charley, but she loves me.

  11. He is not worthy of one life, let alone of two.

  12. William is a far finer fellow," he said one day to his mother; "far more worthy to follow father than Launcie is.

  13. It was at any rate worthy of the best traditions of Australian resourcefulness.

  14. It was a worthy effort: in five days they covered a hundred miles, entering the city on October 26th, preceded the day before by the troops of the King of the Hedjaz, who had driven all the Turks away during the night.

  15. Besides this, the circumstance of Bellido having been the only one who escaped of all those on whom the ruins of the arch fell, is another reason to consider him worthy of our affection.

  16. And the young cavalier knows it, too, and he is certainly worthy of her.

  17. Oh, how unfortunate they are, and how worthy of being well treated!

  18. I have always looked on you differently than on my other attendants, and from to-day you shall be the friend rather than the servant of the Count of Carrion, for I know that you will become more and more worthy of my esteem.

  19. Come into my dwelling, which is yours also, and take some repose, for you have indeed need of it, as has also this worthy lady, after the fatigues of your journey.

  20. It is worthy of notice that the young girls of Rome emulate the others with zest.

  21. One of the Forty-Eight having asked, "What do you think of it, my worthy burghers?

  22. Verily, a speech worthy of the orator and of those who sent him, similes habent labra lactucas.

  23. It is true that this worthy man signed and sealed the avowal of his forfeit; the act happened to fall into my hands when I was secretary of the city.

  24. Another of these worthy landlords was William Hudson, who had leave to keep an ordinary in 1640.

  25. To resume the historical connection between the Salutation and Green Dragon, its worthy successor, it appears that Dr.

  26. It's not worthy of either of us to be afraid.

  27. And under this assurance was the lurking sense that he was somehow worthy of his opportunity.

  28. There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it, and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

  29. The girl had been magnificent, and the only worthy return that Anna could make was to take Darrow from her without a question if she took him at all.

  30. He permitted himself no other comments, but these conveyed with sufficient directness that he thought her worthy of a different setting.

  31. The Reis is very well behaved and steady and careful, and the sort of Caliban of a sailor is a very worthy savage.

  32. Their faces at least responded to her bright look on one or the other of them when something worthy of memory sparkled flying.

  33. We had a whole day's rain (which Herodotus says is a portent here) and a hurricane from the south worthy of the Cape.

  34. The truth was that the worthy Maohn worked really hard, and superintended the horrible dead cattle business in person, which is some risk and very unpleasant.

  35. I would tell Rachmeh so if I could make him understand who Terence was, and that he, Rachmeh, stood in need of any encouragement, but the worthy fellow never imagines that his skin is in any way inferior to mine.

  36. Although your worthy countenance was still well remembered by me, nevertheless, had I not with my own hand assisted to hang the Bashaw, you might, perhaps, have deceived even me.

  37. To this deserted place came Benedict and eleven men, filled with a holy zeal to erect on this very spot an edifice worthy of the living God.

  38. If so, it was an ambition worthy of a very great soul.

  39. Rugby Grammar School was endowed in Sixteen Hundred Fifty-three by one Laurence Sherif, a worthy grocer.

  40. Glover, an excellent and worthy man, who was the father of her only child, a son.

  41. Froebel was then fifty-four years old, happily married to a worthy woman who certainly did not hamper his work, even if she did not inspire it.

  42. John Adams was a rebel from political slavery, but lived and died a worthy Churchman, subsisting on canned theology--and canned in England, at that.

  43. The thrift and industry of the Benedictines was worthy of Ann Lee and our friends at Lebanon.

  44. If I were counsel for Tuskegee--as I am not--I would follow the example of the worthy accusers, and submit the matter without argument.

  45. Emerson, of all Americans, seems the only man worthy of being so compared.

  46. Health and Success are undoubtedly great things and well worthy of possession, but I wish to secure them only through the expression of truth.

  47. I venture to hope, that it will be worthy of the struggles by which we became a nation.

  48. Perhaps if you are not fully employed otherwise, you might start some worthy man under your patronage, that might render essential service to the public, with proper advantage to himself and connexions in this line.

  49. I take the liberty to request that you will communicate these sentiments to my worthy friend Colonel Harrison, and I pray you to believe me very sincerely your friend, &c.

  50. Her situation seems the more worthy of notice, on our part, as it is to the humanity of a nation, at war with her own, that she has recourse, for what she ought to receive from the impartial justice of her own Generals.

  51. We do not mean that a lady should, in dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes worthy of a painter's model.

  52. Worthy Sir, I hope that I need not exhort you to go on in hoping for the salvation of God.

  53. The better for you, Madam; they are not worthy to be wooers, to suit in marriage your soul, that look to no higher match than to be married upon painted clay.

  54. Wodrow designates him "the great and worthy Earl of Cassillis.

  55. He speaks of residing for some time, during the course of his ministry, in the house of Kilmarnock, with "the worthy Lady Boyd.

  56. Worthy Sir, I beseech you in the Lord to give your soul no rest till ye have real assurance, and Christ's rights confirmed and sealed to your soul.

  57. Therefore, my dear and worthy Lord, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, pity that widow-like sister and spouse of Christ.

  58. This is worthy of your pains, and worthy of your soul's sweating, and labouring, and seeking after, night and day.

  59. Particularly worthy of mention with regard to the school are Professors Theodore W.

  60. I begged him not to concern himself further with the omission of my appointment at The Hague, that I was satisfied to know he thought me worthy of the selection.

  61. For the help and encouragement that I gave this worthy man he was always thereafter most grateful to me.

  62. Punch "from outside" are worthy either of publication as they stand, or even of being considered raw material for manipulation by the editor or his artists.

  63. It is worthy of remark that the successful career of Mr. Milliken is in direct opposition to his training, for he began life, much against his will, as a man of business in a great engineering firm.

  64. But for him to have won his "charter" at all proves him at least to have been worthy of it, the tolerance and indulgence of the nation having been in themselves a temptation.

  65. And they sung a new song, saying," Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof (Rev.

  66. The American officers, worthy representatives of our institutions, were very popular not only with the dark-eyed senoritas, but also with the solid male citizens and men of business.

  67. Many worthy names have been necessarily omitted.

  68. This worthy Secretary of the Navy established the rule that none but accredited ministers of the gospel, in cordial relations with some ecclesiastical body, should be appointed naval chaplains.

  69. Ship and crew had been worthy of the name.

  70. Chagrined at having no foemen worthy of their fire, he ordered both officers and sailors to mount the parapet and give three cheers.

  71. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children's future.

  72. It is worthy of a fair, earnest trial everywhere.

  73. Eumenes was a chief officer in the army of Alexander, and well worthy to succeed him, as he did.

  74. It is worthy of notice, if only to show how recently (viz.

  75. The worthy Padre, sorely perplexed by this threefold vision, and, if the truth must he told, a little nettled at this wresting away of the glory of holy Spanish discovery, had shown some hesitation.

  76. Wisely conceiving this remarkable attitude to be in mockery and derision of his devotions, the worthy muleteer was transported with fury.

  77. But he deems it worthy of consideration that during this period, i.

  78. As the same ideas have been sometimes advanced under more pretentious circumstances, they may be worthy of record.

  79. At this blissful epoch there lived at the Mission of San Pablo Father Jose Antonio Haro, a worthy brother of the Society of Jesus.

  80. Oh, day worthy to be marked with a white stone!

  81. Only when nations have learned that are they worthy of admiration.

  82. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and worthy asylum of virtue, integrity, tolerance, equality, and peaceful liberty.

  83. Both were worthy men, who provided for the boys in a great measure out of their own income.

  84. My worthy friend the president, Von Vinke, was the first to experience it.

  85. New parishes were called into life as if by magic; a company of 187 schoolmasters were introduced into the country; the worthy Semler had sought out and drilled some of them.

  86. The entrance of one of these companies within walls was an event of great importance; and we see, from the accounts of many worthy men, how great was the influence of such representations upon their life.

  87. The father, a worthy man, well deserving of the community, had, by misfortune, become bankrupt.

  88. Amidst the lawlessness, coarseness, and rapacity which inevitably come to light among a demoralised soldiery, we rejoice in finding the most worthy soldier-like feeling often amongst the meanest of them.

  89. The account is from the mouth of the worthy man.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worthy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    able; acceptable; admirable; admissible; appropriate; aristocratic; blameless; brass; bully; capable; celebrity; clean; commendable; competent; considerable; constellation; courtly; creditable; cynosure; dear; decent; deserved; deserving; desirable; diamond; dignified; dignitary; dignity; efficient; elder; eligible; enfranchised; entitled; erect; esteemed; estimable; ethical; excellent; exemplary; fair; father; figure; fine; fit; fitted; galaxy; gem; gentleman; golden; good; grand; grave; great; hero; heroine; honest; honorable; honored; idol; immaculate; immortal; important; imposing; inestimable; interests; inviolate; irreproachable; jewel; just; justified; kingly; lady; laudable; lion; lordly; luminary; magisterial; magnate; majestic; manly; memorable; merited; meritorious; model; moral; name; nice; noble; notability; notable; pearl; personage; personality; pillar; power; precious; prestigious; priceless; prime; prince; princely; principled; proud; pure; qualified; queenly; regal; reputable; respectable; respected; revered; reverend; rich; right; righteous; royal; sachem; saintly; sedate; sober; solemn; solid; somebody; something; spotless; stainless; star; stately; statuesque; sterling; suitable; suited; superior; top; true; unblemished; uncorrupted; undefiled; unexceptionable; unimpeachable; unspotted; unstained; unsullied; untarnished; upright; upstanding; valuable; venerable; virtuous; warranted; worshipful; worthy


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    worthy father; worthy friend; worthy knight; worthy lord