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    1. Laud the fervor of our debtors,


    2. Your fruit bearing hills to the entire world you laud


    3. For that reason, my friend, I want to laud that holy prayer which your poetry is, for holy is all that tenderly hearted is offered to a mother


    4. Charles’ appointment of William Laud, in 1633, to be Archbishop of Canterbury


    5. problem with Laud was that he was an Arminian


    6. Their fear was aroused because Archbishop Laud reinstated pomp and ceremony into the Church


    7. ” Laud then went too far by trying to


    8. Parliament was suspicious that the army might be used against Parliament itself, because Parliament was sharply critical of the religious changes instituted by Laud


    9. 8 For if my members were mouths And the hairs of my head voices Even so I could not give you the reward of praise Nor laud you as is befitting Nor could I recount Your praise; Nor tell the glory of Your beauty


    10. “Don't laud them too much

    11. Credit him for cleaning up the public toilets but why not condemn him for having forced his spouse to do the same; why laud him for his quixotic abstinence unmindful of his wife’s conjugal plight; was he not an inveterate autocrat in the democratic garb; what about his falling afoul of Prakasam, and how he played favorites with Nehru


    12. I got my opera-glasses and examined him with equal care, trying to stare him out of countenance; but though a small he was also a bold boy and not to be abashed, and as I would not give in either we stared at each other steadily between the tolls till nine o'clock, when the bell-ringing ceased, service began, and he reluctantly went down into the church, where I suppose he had to join in the singing of the tune to which in England the hymn beginning 'All glory, laud, and honour,' is sung, for it presently floated out into the quiet little market-place, filling it with the feeling of Sunday


    13. All the hallowed institutions history books laud and worship and sanctify as pillars of English Culture, and English Tradition, and English greatness, and English Excellency, and English Goodness: were stinking, rotten, evil inventions created by the rich


    14. We laud and magnify Your glorious Name


    15. Thoughts such as, “What kind of teacher would stymie a kid’s education, even if the kid used a word incorrectly; the kid’s showing initiative, for crying out loud; a teacher is supposed to laud and spur students to seek knowledge, not shut it down,” occupied Mac’s mind at times the ensuing days


    16. By this method, and together with what I had done personally in the tempest, I got great praise and laud from all reflecting people; and it is not now to be told what a consolation was brought to many a sorrowful widow and orphan’s heart, by the patience and temperance with which the fund of liberality was distributed; yet because a small sum was reserved to help some of the more helpless at another time, and the same was put out to interest in the town’s books, there were not wanting evil-minded persons who went about whispering calumnious innuendos to my disadvantage; but I know, by this time, the nature of the world, and how impossible it is to reason with such a seven-headed and tenhorned beast as the multitude


    17. He wants to laud love, but the more he knew of it, the more he cursed it


    1. “In fact, what I believe happens/happened—you will see why I express it that way shortly—should have been seen, and perhaps has been for all I know, by Ray Kurzweil, the much lauded artificial intelligence guru at MIT


    2. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north; And I asked the angel, saying to him: 'Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?' And he said to me: 'They have gone to measure'; And the angel who went with me said to me: 'These shall bring the measures of the righteous; And the robes of the righteous to the righteous, so that they may re-establish themselves in the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect; And those are the measures which shall be given to faith; And which shall strengthen righteousness; And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the Earth; And those who have been destroyed by the desert; And those who have been devoured by the beasts; And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea, so that they may return and establish themselves on the day of the Elect One; For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits; And none can be destroyed; And all who dwell above in Heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light likened to fire; And that One with their first words they blessed; And extolled and lauded with wisdom; And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life; And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory; And He shall judge all the works of the holy ones above in the heavens; And in balances shall their deed be weighed; And when he shall lift up his countenance; To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits; And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits; Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless; And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits; And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and of the Elect One, and the other powers on the Earth and above the water


    3. To your lauded festivities of Corpus, San Roque and the Assumption,


    4. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels and they took to themselves wings and flew and they went towards the north; And I asked the angel saying to him: 'Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?' And he said to me: 'They have gone to measure'; And the angel who went with me said to me: 'These shall bring the measures of the righteous; And the robes of the righteous to the righteous so that they may re-establish themselves in the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect; And those are the measures which shall be given to faith; And which shall strengthen righteousness; And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the Earth; And those who have been destroyed by the desert; And those who have been devoured by the beasts; And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea so that they may return and establish themselves on the day of the Elect One; For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits; And none can be destroyed; And all who dwell above in Heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light likened to fire; And that One with their first words they blessed; And extolled and lauded with wisdom; And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life; And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory; And He shall judge all the works of the holy ones above in the heavens; And in balances shall their deed be weighed; And when he shall lift up his countenance; To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits; And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits; Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless; And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits; And He will summon all the host of the heavens and all the holy ones above and the host of God the Cherubic Seraphin and Ophannin and all the angels of power and all the angels of principalities and of the Elect One and the other powers on the Earth and above the water


    5. ” Admiral Loy and Team Coast Guard were lauded by the NLUS for rapid and reassuring responses to the 11 September attacks


    6. (Italics mine) Attlee was never a communist, but he lauded “the great experiment in Russia


    7. He and Arnie should be lauded for taking this stand”


    8. opinions of schoolmen who lauded money as the


    9. Virgin, the much lauded and most glorified, the mediations of the bodiless servants of God, the holy angels, the


    10. The public enthusiasm for profitable industry and satisfaction of achievement may have been summed up by Victoria’s husband Prince Albert when he lauded man’s fulfillment of the sacred mission of conquering nature for his use

    11. Marvelling at the tandem, two grease monkeys scurried about the business of repair while we lauded it with tea and lamachun they'd kindly bought for us unasked from the chai shop around the corner -we mused that by the time we had finished everything they pressed upon us, half their profit would have gone


    12. lauded for his marvellous achievement by the King when he finally returned to


    13. In spite of my being strongly opposed to anti-Muslim prejudices, as this book in the hands of the reader clearly illustrates, it must be stated that Shourie’s scholastic effort when it comes to the regressive fatwas (though not his opinion in terms of whether they are truly in the spirit of the faith) must be lauded


    14. lauded him a few days earlier had him crucified


    15. We had said all we ever meant to say to each other, and had lauded all our relations with such hearty goodwill that there was nothing whatever to add


    16. “That’s the proper spirit,” lauded Kama as they neared the lunar sphere


    17. How much should a billionaire be lauded and praised for giving away millions if he still has his billions intact? If you wish to honestly gauge the charity of person: just measure what actual fraction of their wealth they give away in proportion to its actual totality


    18. If a billionaire gives away most of their wealth and they still retain millions of dollars: how would you compare that to a homeless person giving away their last cigarette? Which one is making the bigger sacrifice? Which one is being more charitable? The wealthiest person in the world; Bill Gates, has actually been lauded for being a humanitarian because he gives away a few hundreds of millions of dollars to certain selected charities


    19. He is universally lauded by historians as being a civilizing force for good


    20. The Carolingian myths of Europe were kept alive by minstrels singing the praises of long-dead Kings who they lauded and praised and whitewashed: until the entire masses of the poor of Europe were slowly hoodwinked into believing, that the OLDE Kings and rulers of rulers were ‘noble’ and ‘good’ and ‘spiritual’… not like the living Kings were: who killed them and degraded them and starved and robbed them and hated them

    21. The water’s medicinal properties were lauded by scientists at the 1893 World’s Fair


    22. Especially when these ‘classics’ are held up as the epitome of the finest writing of all humankind and are sanctified and worshipped and lauded and admired and preserved and perpetuated until their stink is so foul: nobody reads them anymore because their foulness is so old and obsolete, it is not relevant to the present age and culture anymore


    23. I’d be lauded as a hero for this no doubt


    24. Still, it did get irritating to hear his name lauded over and over again (as well as her earlier certainty that the dwellers would hate Cambridge forever proven false), to the point where she stayed indoors as often as possible, listening to Darren's ideas about where Scott's body might have gone, or chatting with Echo Gardener over tea


    25. Finding, then, that, in fact he could not move, he thought himself of having recourse to his usual remedy, which was to think of some passage in his books, and his craze brought to his mind that about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua, when Carloto left him wounded on the mountain side, a story known by heart by the children, not forgotten by the young men, and lauded and even believed by the old folk; and for all that not a whit truer than the miracles of Mahomet


    26. She did not stay to retaliate, but reentered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness


    27. The students lauded Thomas as a hero of the faith


    28. Is it not tempting what I offer you, and is it not an easy thing, since it is only to do thus? look!" At these words he uncovered the small cup which contained the substance so lauded, took a teaspoonful of the magic sweetmeat, raised it to his lips, and swallowed it slowly with his eyes half shut and his head bent backwards


    29. I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies


    30. For Rose and Joe, the school may have seemed ideally suited to Rosemary’s and their needs: a lauded therapeutic setting that could allow Rosemary to function as a teacher’s aide, both for her own self-esteem and for the sake of public appearances

    31. He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure up


    32. News of the raid broke, and the men were lauded as heroes


    33. This concert of praise, never before bestowed upon Eugenie, made her blush under its novelty; but insensibly her ear became habituated to the sound, and however coarse the compliments might be, she soon was so accustomed to hear her beauty lauded that if any new-comer had seemed to think her plain, she would have felt the reproach far more than she might have done eight years earlier


    34. one country lauded as a virtue in another


    35. He succeeded with this strategy for a few years and was lauded as a legendary turnaround artist and a role model for many managers


    36. When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie—a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet! Becky thought her father had never looked so tall and so superb as when he walked the floor and stamped his foot and said that


    37. She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness


    38. “Jesu sweetest, glorified of the Apostles, Jesu lauded by the martyrs, almighty Monarch, save me, Jesu my Saviour


    39. But then, under the influence of false criticism extolling Shakespear, he writes "Boris Godunoff," a cold, brain-spun work, and this production is lauded by the critics, set up as a model, and imitations of it appear: "Minin," by Ostrovsky, and "Tsar Boris," by Alexée Tolstoï, and such imitations of imitations as crowd all literatures with insignificant productions


    1. The president made an opening statement lauding the successes of PAX and their guest before launching into business


    2. The armored trolls passed the cries of the merchants, lauding their wares for sale


    3. Sancho returned to his master mightily pleased with this gratifying answer, and told him all the great lady had said to him, lauding to the skies, in his rustic phrase, her rare beauty, her graceful gaiety, and her courtesy


    4. The story did mention that my dad and I shared a meal once a week, but even he was quoted as lauding Jim’s “incredible generosity of spirit


    5. A first-hand look at construction billboards lauding lender and developer alike can be another quick source of names


    6. These were pastorals, lauding fair mistresses and maidens of the day under the familiar title of the daisy


    1. compline, vespers, matins and lauds – and the rule of


    2. For this, oh Fuentesnuevas, and for many other lauds


    3. Yet what man lauds the thing he's thrown away?


    4. Already they openly sing The Lament for the King in which Rinaldo lauds the sainted villain and denounces Conan as 'that black-hearted savage from the abyss


    5. By the time Lauds was over this morning he had reported to me the results of his labors


    6. Saul still wore the worried look when the monks got up, at first light, for the service of Lauds


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    Synonyms for "laud"

    exalt extol glorify laud proclaim praise compliment applaud acclaim hail support

    "laud" definitions

    praise, glorify, or honor