Sentence examples for mightiness from high-quality English sources.

• Yet now, more than before, there is a defence for such mightiness.

• But she was glad at the lengthy sentence, felt again the mightiness of the law.

• “On no account will I allow it,” said the curate; “your mightiness must remain on horseback, for it is on horseback you achieve the greatest deeds and adventures that have been beheld in our age; as for me, an unworthy priest, it will serve me well enough to mount on the haunches of one of the mules of these gentlefolk who accompany your worship, if they have no objection, and I will fancy I am mounted on the steed Pegasus, or on the zebra or charger that bore the famous Moor, Muzaraque, who to this day lies enchanted in the great hill of Zulema, a little distance from the great Complutum.”

• (Adams had wanted to call him His Most Benign Highness, and Washington was fond of His High Mightiness.)

• We see the river flowing in all its mightiness toward a horizon line concealed in a bank of rain clouds, or perhaps morning mist.