Lowly

//ˈləʊli//

"Lowly" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The affection of the lowly is like a wall of sand.

Here I sit, deserted by all the world, I who am a king's daughter, and a false waiting-maid has forced me to take off my own clothes, and has taken my place with my bridegroom, while I have to fulfill the lowly office of goose-girl.

Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."

"Nor yet proud Ilion nor her towers had stood; / in lowly vales sequestered they abode."

Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed."

You lowly wretch!

I'm just a lowly serf.

And those whom Tiber's holy forests hide, Or Circe's hills from the main land divide; Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands, Or the black water of Pomptina stands.

And I watched you waltz from tree to tree As I slunk in my lowly lair

One common right the great and lowly claims.

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Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.

For all who read, and reading, not disdain / These rural poems, and their lowly strain

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.

Walking through the park, it wasn't quite dark / There was a man sitting on a bench / Out of the crowd as his head lowly bowed

These words were lowly and sweetly murmured in the same way with the word mother, being changefully varied in their modulations, […]

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