How shall the perplexed navigator steer his course when monitors in office accuse him on the one hand of lax precision throughout, and belaud him on the other for careful observance of detail?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Their birds belaud me, lightly, from their boughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watchers of the Sky] Reference

Celebrities from the Trans-Caucasus will belaud Roman celebrities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems 1918-21] Reference

It seems that I am one of the few that will not belaud this album.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

This is not to belaud the present system, any more than it is optimistic to say this is the best of all possible worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

And having read them and discovered first, that it was the custom of my contemporaries to belaud themselves in this prolegomenaical ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path to Rome] Reference

Crassus on this occasion, between whom and Cicero there was never much friendship, took occasion to belaud the late great Consul on account of his Catiline successes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference

The time has now surely come when, if our civilization is to make any fight at all against the new "red ruin and breaking up of laws," we must cease to belaud our slack-minded, latter-day "literature of rebellion" for its cleverness in making scraps of paper out of the plain laws of right and wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Morning Poems] Reference

"Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home and the World] Reference

Not remembering that in so doing they are mocking themselves -- while they direct their gaze abroad, and, whenever another has gained success through the failure of the Hellenes, belaud that state of things, and declare that we must see that it endures for all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2] Reference

And it was the same in the morning, when he led her round house and garden: he skimmed airily over the drawbacks — the distance of the kitchen from the house; the poor water-supply; the wretched little box of a surgery; the great heat of even this late autumn day — to belaud the house’s privacy, separated as it was from the rest of the township by the width of the Lagoon; the thickness of the brick walls; the shade and coolness ensured by an all-round verandah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

Since I blush to belaud myself a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enoch Arden & c.] Reference