Prayer

(noun.) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); 'the priest sank to his knees in prayer'.

(noun.) a fixed text used in praying.

(noun.) reverent petition to a deity.

(noun.) someone who prays to God.

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• His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The prayer-bell rang; I obeyed its summons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I cannot resist your prayer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I had some years before composed a little liturgy or form of prayer for my own private use (viz. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The magnificent melody of the Prayer in Rossini's Moses, sung in a sonorous bass voice, rose grandly through the suburban silence of the place. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• God is about to grant the prayer I have made to him, thought I,--ever sanguine in what I wished--I shall die by his own will. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I used also, sometimes, a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They were private, and were filled with arguments; some of these taking the form of prayer. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Had no one a wish, no one a word, no one a prayer to which I could say--Amen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She came into the nursery one evening just after I had listened to Georgette's lisped and broken prayer, and had put her to bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Then I remembered all at once that I had not said my prayers that morning. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She thought about him the very first moment on waking; and his was the very last name mentioned in her prayers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Tom, therefore, remained behind, with a few who had learned of him to pray, and offered up prayers for the escape of the fugitives. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Prayers and invocations would be made. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And then I said my prayers and thought a little more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He would have prayers in the house, I believe. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And if prayers have efficacy, yours will benefit me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Dreadful doubt and anguish--prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable--followed the regiment. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• My picture was in her room, and I was in her prayers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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