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Sentence Examples She got up, careful not to catch the lab coat that Kate had lent her on the chair. Never in all his life he heard a sound more angelic, and the lilt of her voice lent itself beautifully to song and story alike. The support of leading literary figures, Burns scholars and leading entertainers lent weight to the cause. The three remaining bedrooms are upstairs, the master having been lent a Moroccan, ornamental feel with an arched window as the focal point. Mink colored hair and chocolate eyes lent sophistication to the hooked Roman nose and strong jawline. They had all opted for a soak in the hot tub, and Ashley lent them a few of her bathing suits. This argument has lent some support to the argument that we in fact live in an open universe. Coy admissions of a relationship between the parties lent a breath of intrigue to the otherwise sedate election campaign. His proficiency as a newscaster also lent credibility to this inherently incredible story. In some industrial and construction loans the amount lent may be drawn down by the borrower in instalments within an agreed period. He is a stingy businessman who vehemently wants to reclaim money lent to his wife. Such hope lent a spring to their step and vigour to their efforts in the face of determined opposition. Another, The Jacuzzi, has more of a kick to it lent by the addition of Bombay Sapphire Gin and a splash of lemon to the traditional drink. What lent interest and made it absorbing was the competitive edge between the two parties, and the skill they displayed. Some artworks are lent to government offices and non-profit organizations for display. On another level, Sweden has been consistent in the political support it has lent to the process of Bulgaria's accession. He cannot recall if the Trust was ever engaged in any business or ever lent money. A childhood toy the loved one whimsically lent to you, to evoke innocent days before they grew up, met you, and ruined your life. The tarragon sauce lent an interesting and subtle astringency, which gave the tender pork a real lift. She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side. Show More Sentences Its main selling point is that ready cash is lent at the much cheaper rates than apply to mortgages. The painting lent an air of quality to the other items on the mantel, all inexpensive purchases. Their administrative overhaul and strong recruiting lent an air of excitement to the holiday sunshine. Martin told the FBI the money came from gambling winnings and was lent to the players. From the ceiling hung a metal pan on which pine kindling once lent light and fragrance. Sylvia lent him to me at the adults' Christmas party for a jive, for which I was very grateful. His resonant use of the bass string to render the notes of a raga in the lower octave has lent gravity and depth to his recitals. Adoration continues in Rathduff Church every Sunday during lent from 12 noon to 5pm with Holy hour from 5 to 6pm. Through the use of bright colours such as azure, burgundy, rose, orange, pink and yellow, the artist has lent life to the subject. Ever so slightly and slowly, they lent in and kissed each other on the lips softly, savouring the moment in each other's arms. The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf. There was something about his personality that lent itself to New York, a stubborn quality that complements a stubborn city. They doubled the sugar and added more mirin, the rice wine that lent the sauce, or teri, its distinctive flavor and glazing properties. If you chase someone to repay the tenner you lent them, you look mean-spirited and churlish. In fact, the NRA lent support to some of the most abusive criminal justice practices in effect today. I was twenty four at the time, and I hadn't yet paid back a single penny of the three thousand quid he lent me to buy my first car. He lent me a digital power meter that measures both demand in watts and cumulative energy consumption in watt-hours. Two fine, brown horses anxiously pawed at the cobblestone as Julius lent his hand to help me in. A portable boiler for 50 basins of soup, basins and spoons are being lent by Mr Etheridge, a member of the education committee. The adventurers were so called because they lent or adventured money to parliament. Show More Sentences The documentary aesthetic lent itself to the popularization of photography at all levels. Its main selling point is that ready cash is lent at the much cheaper rates that apply to mortgages. Brandy lent Tabbi one of the semi-automatics, just in case the man woke up and he wasn't on their side. In an accompanying audio track, a baritone slowly sings the children's lullaby that lent its title to the exhibition. I generally spent most of what I had on used records, then lent them to friends in informal return for their holdings. At school I loved reggae and soul, one of my mates was a punk and lent me this record. The democratic and communal color lent to national self-image by the experience of mobilization and warfare. All this has lent a sort of legitimization to the reoccupation, the bombings, and the arrests. Whenever I needed to talk about Aaron, which I admit was often, he always lent an ear. I was doubly shamed, as mine contained little more than a notebook, a camera, a sleeping bag they had lent me, and some lint. Bill lent me a copy of his latest book and I have to tell you I laughed until I cried reading this book. Hannah lent me a sleeping bag since I didn't take one and I managed to find space in a room with a carpet to sleep. By 2002, she was living with Tim Montgomery, a relationship which began after she had lost her spikes in Oslo and he lent her his. As I tied up my boots he told me how you would get three good weeks of the famous lent lilies. Last year the World Bank lent Sierra Leone a million dollars for a credit scheme, when the exchange rate was seven leones to the dollar. Decorations, typical of those often seen during the marriage season, brightened up the interiors and lent an old-world charm. It's not a real bed, just a rollaway bed the landlord lent us until my mother buys new furniture. He was cooking arepas for the girls in a little kitchen that a man had lent to him for a month. We had been condemning segregation verbally for a long time, but we had lent ourselves to it by not sitting in. Dressed usually in her mistress's cast-offs from yesteryears of fashion, she nevertheless lent a personal touch to each garment. Show More Sentences We have bought a digital movie camera which is to be lent out to community groups. After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking. We always lent an ear for the one-lungers of the oilfield, but it was not until this spring that one of them darn things followed me home. Plenty of modern film-makers have attempted to emulate the blithe barbarity that lent Ealing comedies their sharp aftertaste. This trend lent intellectual heft to an earlier movement, the vocational education movement of the 20th century's first decades. Eddie's failings are lent an almost intolerable poignancy by his former chauvinistic notions of patriotism. It's tough because as Truman becomes more solitary the film loses delightful supporting actors who could have lent it a light. Greek proportions, porticoes, orders, and ornament lent civic buildings a gravity lacking in earlier Palladianism. I wrote my remarks from the entries in my reading journal after having lent the book to someone and may well have misread my own notes. Indeed, they all admirably lent a hand when the bar and coat check were severely understaffed. This helped to explain what would otherwise have been inexplicable, and hence lent colour to her evidence about the state of her belief. Once you turn 30, if you chase someone to repay the tenner you lent them, you look mean-spirited and churlish. While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits. Largely absent are the spacey Grandaddy synths that occasionally lent the band's debut a pleasant jolt of modernity. These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity. Banks had a friend at Bradford Grammar School so Debbie was lent a boat which was housed in their boathouse on the River Aire at Saltaire. He not only lent a thundering voice to Panthic politics but also gave a new meaning, direction and idiom to it. Moreover, this player lent Nicky his driving-licence, and Nicky enclosed a photostat of it to back up his story. Its tracks lent his street a bleak aspect unrelieved by the plain Californian bungalows opposite of Loftus Crescent. Players who have lent money are entitled to add the amounts still due plus unpaid interest. Show More Sentences The trilogy and duology achieved integrated plots, but the episodic nature of the season lent it a fractured feel. It has lent its support to Keighley Bus Museum's search for a permanent site to house its collection of bygone buses. The odor of public corruption that surrounded the Gasthuis land affair lent it particular force as a moral exemplum. Around midnight however the skies lent a helping hand with a steady drizzle. People who lived in a community all knew each other and lent a helping hand whenever they could. It was not always that one could understand the broad Scotch brogue, but that lent a piquancy to the situation. So Britain and Spain had access to Indian groups and lent expertise in aiding Indian confederations and alliances. As a teenager he was really into wrestling and a friend at work has lent him a wrestling game for the week. The sauce was heavy with ghee, which, while very greasy, also lent the curry its rich taste. He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit. Jouko had lent me his photographic field guide for the weekend, and I quickly determined that the bird was a Spangled Drongo. My parents have also lent me some money, which I will eventually have to pay back. The state-owned bank lent the money to a company called Harvard Properties whose directors are Dan McGing and Barry Kenny. With only Rp 2 million in his hand, some of which his brother lent him, he decided to try his luck in the capital. The bad news comes at a time when banks have lent more money than ever to consumers with poor credit. A homeless teacher has been jailed after he stole cash from a kind-hearted charity boss who lent him money and gave him a job. Perhaps that lent an extra measure of contrast to the rowdy group at the back of the smoking section. Further weight was lent to that argument in the 2004 Six Nations championship, the first after Johnson's retirement. Because this exchange pitted him against the president, it lent stature to the senator's candidacy. He lent himself to an illusion, he lent himself to misleading the African people. Show More Sentences Polgar, a Hungarian native who lent her name to the center, will evaluate Georgia's strategies and techniques, DeLeon said. So convinced is Sadie Frost of Joshi's philosophy that she has lent her name to his Feel Great range. He traveled often and far, lectured, taught, lent his name to social causes and to institutions. After filmmaker Gus Van Sant also lent his name to the project, it was selected for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where the word spread. The AC Milan footballer has lent his name to Riordan's apartment and villa complex, which will be known as Costa de Cabanas. The sextant, a navigational tool used to indicate latitude, was lent to the museum by a local maritime historian. As for the foie gras and truffle hamburger, small and raw on the inside, well, it lent a whole new meaning to the term fast food. More important became, with the completion of the ministerial system, the notion of the conferred, or lent lands, out of which the relations of feudality developed themselves. He and the rest of the crew were staying in a suite of well-appointed rooms several kilometres out of town, lent to them by the locals as a sign of gratitude. The very stifling of debate has lent an air of urgency and relevance to the journal's function as a committed vehicle for pluralist theoretical debate. If the full amount of the mortgage is being lent on a fixed rate, the mortgageholder usually can't pay off some of the capital balance using a lump sum. In the 60s, for instance, the technique of silk screens, previously used for commercial art, lent itself very much to pop art as used by Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton. Most of the material is newly sourced from books and manuscripts lent to Bell by the Dalai and Tashi Lamas and conversations with many leading Tibetans. Quite what Voison thought of the name Citrohan is anyone's guess, but the car maker was clearly unoffended as he lent Le Corbusier cars in succeeding years. Thanks, unquestionably, to the exposure lent by the Weekender article, our exhibition and charity sale of Lao silk textiles was an overwhelming success. John traded as a glover, dealt in wood, and lent money to earn interest. The Asian diplomatic community has lent a helping hand to the students. She lent me her cellphone so I could make calls to arrange this. But someone lent me a phonecard that worked and I got through. All three shows are large and will travel, making this a bonanza opportunity to explore new aspects of both artists and to see some rarely lent pictures. Show More Sentences One of my managers at work has lent me his camera to play with. And all these sepia-toned images are lent strength by the gentle poetry of the lyrics, and the light, front-porch swing of the acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins and strings. In their splendid robes and richly ornamented yataghans, the gentlemen of the party lent unusual picturesqueness to the commonplace surroundings of a railway platform. Recent reports have lent support to the potential use of previous generation antibacterial drugs to treat infections caused by new resistant bacteria. Speculation that China may adjust its own currency peg and allow the yuan to rise has also lent strength to the belief that Malaysia might follow suit. Bahrain, a staunch American ally and home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, has lent a unique story in the Arab Spring narrative. She took off the jacket Jay lent her and returned it to him. The venue itself lent itself well to the deep house vibe, very loungey, lots of cozy seating, a dancefloor, and a bar that had surprisingly quick service. In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning. They all lent a hand, from reception four-year-olds to the top class. The point here is that I lent you something and you've broken it. He highlights how anti-communist prejudice has lent weight to a sympathetic view of the propertied classes particularly over the treatment of slaves. Money dues lent themselves more easily to negotiation in detail, and so encouraged a more legalistic attitude towards relations between lords and tenants. She watched as three more workers lent a hand and got the grand piano off of the platform dolly and removed the layers of bubble wrap and shrink-wrap. In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes. She, however, has lent it to a thief on the lam from the police. Unimpeded by antique censorship codes or outdated moral guidelines, they lent a painful emotional truth and sometimes savage sexual energy to characters who lived on the edge. Paul had roached hair, and a thin nose and yet thinner mouth, but he was a big guy with giant hands that lent him an authority his mind did not altogether deserve. Other prominent people have also lent their support to the project. A gray felt hat and gray doeskin gloves lent the finishing touches. Show More Sentences She thanked the parents who provided goodies for the cake sale and to Kathleen and Michael Ryan Luke who lent their goat, Angela, to the school for the presentation. Their garb lent them either the gravitas the Republican bench has previously lacked, or the doleful aspect of ushers at a funeral. The head groom lent him a large, strong, dappled grey cob named Trojan. So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel. In the social area it has assisted disabled people and has lent a hand with the environment through projects for waste management and water management. Women's simultaneous desire for love and romance and anxiety about the exigencies of marriage lent them a peculiar potency in courtship negotiations. My father had visited the Barrier Reef in 1932 while investigating sugar tariffs and bounties, and a Proserpine sugar-grower had lent him a lugger and crew. Oleksiy Kosarev, leader of a local anti-corruption organization, lent some credence to this conception. Even people who were flat broke got in on the action when brokers lent them the money to buy shares, in the belief that when their ship came in, they'd share the ride. Skripov was caught trying to establish a secure courier system by an attractive agente provocateuse lent to ASIO by British security. Henry lent him his support when Montfort embarked for Rome in March 1238 to seek papal approval for his marriage. He lent his critical support to the Methodist revival, and was associated with the early leaders. This has lent an increased value to his work in modern historiography, mainly thanks to authors such as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel. Christiern Pedersen finally found a copy in the collection of Archbishop Birger Gunnersen of Lund, modern Sweden, which he gladly lent him. Godwin was saved from debtor's prison by philosophical devotees such as Francis Place, who lent him further money. The fort most likely lent its name to Koyil Kotta the precursor to Kozhikode. On the other hand, there are many poor that can be lent to, but at greater risk. George lent support to Walpole by dismissing the bill's opponents from their court offices. When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication. Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria. Show More Sentences Selznick lent Hitchcock to the larger studios more often than producing Hitchcock's films himself. Her new shoes, with their little perched heels, lent a swing to her hips. She smiled, pleased by the image. Lily in her kitten heels. There appears to be a strong preference for auditing bonds whose proceeds have been lent by the issuer to large corporations. The orbital nature of the motorway, in common with racetracks, lent itself to unofficial, and illegal, motor racing. And, it continued, Congress had lent states authority to cooperate in immigration enforcement so as to avoid such laggardness. Having lent to high risk borrowers, the smart alecs went a step further by slicing and dicing their sub-prime loans and selling them on. Richardson, who had previously lent Johnson money, sent him six guineas to show his good will, and the two became friends. The statue of the river god Ilissos has been lent to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg for an exhibition until mid-January. The statue of the river god Ilissos has been lent to the renowned Russian museum for an exhibition until mid-January. Things looked up, though, when an antimonarchist lent me a fiver for food and drink. We had half board at our hotel, Santa's Hotel Tunturi, and were lent Arctic-proof snowsuits, boots and mittens on the way. This lent a new insidiousness to his temptation, since her contempt would be a refuge from his own. Petraeus hoped they would succeed, and lent his support, but he was not holding his breath. She claimed she lent a man a piece of cling film and piece of sticky tape on which her fingerprints were found. Splasher the dolphin and Neptina the mermaid, who had a magic pearl, lent a hand from time to time. When civil war broke out in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels, led by General Francisco Franco. The variety of rocks of similar ages seen here have led to the county's name being lent to that of the Devonian period. However, any surplus in the funds is invested in government securities, and so is effectively lent to the government at low rates of interest. The material lent itself to the depiction of tonal variations and texture, so facilitating the observation of nature in great detail. From 1975 East Kilbride lent its name to a local government district in the Strathclyde region. Show More Sentences They lent livestock and grazing land to one another and worked together to spin yarn, sew quilts, and shuck corn. One particular incident that lent itself to the superstition was the Astor Place Riot. Other diseases lent themselves to the practice of quarantine before and after the devastation of the plague. British power, which depended on a liberal political system and the supremacy of the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they remain constantly and permanently in Turner's Gallery. In 2007, he lent his voice to the character Lord Royal Highness in the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis television film. Scott met the blind poet Thomas Blacklock, who lent him books and introduced him to James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems. In the aftermath of the war, he lent support to the attempt of Adam Price, a Plaid Cymru MP, to impeach Tony Blair over the Iraq issue. The companies were obligated to repay the loans to the government, and the money would then be lent out to another group of businesses. The members lent works to exhibitions that changed annually, while an art school was held in the summer months. So it's apt that Boudicca has lent her name to a business with a unique take on home comforts of the animal, vegetable and mineral kind. In 1282, Rudolf I thus lent Austria and Styria to his own sons. Libraries that lent out their material for a small price started to appear and occasionally bookstores would offer a small lending library to their patrons. A central bank usually creates money lent to a national government. The subject matter of this song indicates a nod to ELP's unabashed Englishness and simultaneously lent an air of timeless tradition and ceremony to the music. He made a bathroom of gritstone and ceramic tile, he even had a sink with faucets, a boiler for hot water, and I lent a few barrows of gravel to him to build a septic tank. When Anna Pavlova lent her image to endorse Pond's Vanishing Cream in 1914, the connection was that she, like the product, was a thing of ephemeral beauty. When Oliver Winchester lent his name to a levergun, the first Winchester came forth as the Model 1866, or as it was soon called due to its brass frame, the Yellow Boy. Books were so in demand during Charlemagne's time that these libraries lent out some books, but only if that borrower offered valuable collateral in return. In some places of Italy, money may be lent on respondentia to persons who are not interested in the ship, but those loans must be made in the form of a wager. Show More Sentences The architectural historian Jonathan Foyle, actresses Imelda Staunton and Jenny Agutter, and director Michael Winner all lent their support to the campaign. The Medieval Morocco exhibition displays very symbolic items as minbars and bell lamps of the Al Qarawiyyin mosque which were lent by the Kingdom. Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right? Moray MSP Angus Robertson and MP Richard Lochhead, lent their support to the proposals and held talks with the Scottish and UK Governments to promote the concept. Since he lent out his book of jobs available, he decided to pole his way down river having a nice time reading about everything from lima beans to the Pope's latest fiat. When Oliver Winchester lent his name to a levergun, the first Winchester rifle came forth as the 1866, or as it was soon called due to its brass frame, the Yellow Boy. A person committed to lent, is in a spiritual training with introspection and renewal of their commitment to be an imitation of set principles by Jesus Christ. He endorsed the note in favor of his uncle who had lent them the money. The emergency lent weight to the military aristocracy in Anatolia, who in 1068 secured the election of one of their own, Romanos Diogenes, as emperor. It was reported that a car drove into the back of the 4x4 his sponsors had lent him, which was carrying Williams and Stephen Hendry to a restaurant. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Catherine paid for Blake's funeral with money lent to her by Linnell. These lent themselves well to adaptation in the Windows world, where they became those little icons in the system tray that we are now accustomed to. They have also lent their name to quite a few weapons from other cultures. For nearly 13 years, Scott Reiter has lent his engineering, network management, accounting and regulatory expertise to NTCA, its member companies and the industry at-large. Francis had never been 'Frank' or 'Fran', he had always been called by his full name. It had lent him a certain dignity that he had possibly never earned. The FBI fully concurred with the need for an updated Program and lent its complete support, formulating a comprehensive three-phase redesign effort. Libraries that lent out their material for a small price started to appear, and occasionally bookstores would offer a small lending library to their patrons. The Bank lent considerable sums of money to many rulers throughout Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, gaining widespread influence. The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness. Show More Sentences Given that Jesus died for our sins on Good Friday, during Lent sin is also given attention. One of the most enjoyable events in Bolivia is Carnival, the period preceding Lent. He did not follow a strict diet but cut out beer, whisky and cakes for the 40 days of Lent. One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving. The original idea of Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday of Lent is quite charming. What is not said in these notes is that this piece is a responsory, found in most manuscripts on Monday in the first week of Lent. These aren't the words we would normally want to hear on the day before Lent begins. To this end he will be eating as little as possible from the beginning of Lent until Easter. During Lent, a visiting priest will celebrate Mass and preach at the Vigil Mass on Saturday night. Since one must reserve a room six months in advance, I made plans last fall to visit this Lent. This great Lenten hymn should be made a model for personal reassessment during Lent. That quote forms part of the invitation for people to observe Lent, taken from the Ash Wednesday service. On Ash Wednesday, the faithful seeks repentance for whatever sins he may have committed as he prepares himself for the season of Lent. They played rugger in Michaelmas Term, hockey in Lent Term, cricket in Summer Term. The tradition of giving a chocolate egg to mark the end of Lent dates back to the 19th century and shows little sign of waning. The host was often veiled or curtained to be revealed before the sacring at particular times of year or to be kept hidden during Lent. We thought fast food was what you have in Lent, a big mac was an oversize raincoat, and crumpet we had for tea. During Lent, when meat was not eaten, they sold salt herrings and saltwater fish. The drama of Holy Week stands squarely between the seasons of Lent and Easter. So fasting in Lent or not eating meat on Fridays seems odd, even eccentric now. Show More Sentences Yesterday in church we said the Benedicite instead of singing the Gospel hymn, apparently because it's Lent. Some older men also had a custom of not getting there hair cut between Shrove Tuesday to Easter Monday as their own deed for Lent. Today is Ash Wednesday, the first of day of Lent, and 46 days before Easter, the original movable feast. A sponsored slim in is taking place over Lent in aid of the Laois Hospice Foundation. He says he will not be led into temptation as he embarks on a sponsored slim during the period of Lent. Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent. From 1786, they presented an oratorio each year, either at Lent or Christmas, for which the chorus and orchestra of the court were engaged. During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten. There will be Stations of the Cross on each Tuesday of Lent at 7pm in Facefield church. The town of Binche is famous for its carnival festivities in the weeks before Lent. The Sacrament of Baptism and the Season of Lent are connected catechetically and liturgically. The experience of the preparation for Easter during Lent and Holy Week only serves to heighten the experience of Easter Day itself. Lent and Holy Week are times to reflect upon the meaning of Jesus' suffering and death and to turn anew toward God. Holidays such as Christmas, Holy Week before Easter, and Carnival before Lent are occasions for special food. Rose expresses joy that half a penitential season is over, and is used on the 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent. Carnival, an important festival that precedes Lent, is celebrated with much festivity. That means people who have used the manuals from June 2000 until January 2001 are without a prayer book for Lent, Easter and springtime. The priest lost 13 lb in a sponsored slim during the period of Lent. During Lent, the daily weekday Mass will be at 8am in the parish church. However, the fourth Sunday of Lent was hailed as a day for honouring mothers, when servants would have the day off and be encouraged to return home. Show More Sentences It was the last week of Lent and it was time to prepare for Palm or Passion Sunday and then, Maundy Thursday and then Good Friday and finally Easter Sunday. Featuring works written specially for Passiontide and the season of Lent, the CD also has music by JS Bach, Lotti, SS Wesley, Gibbons, Ireland and Hurford. Lent stirs up thoughts of penance and sacrifice and struggle. Reared during the time when one square meal and two collations was the order of the day for Lent, giving up something like sweets is a minor detail. Having failed to obtain the special licence required for marriage during Lent, they were summoned to appear before the consistory court in Worcester cathedral. Leading up to Easter is Lent, a period of penance lasting forty days during which only one meal a day was allowed and flesh and fish were forbidden. That's what the aristocrats of 18 th-century Venice did when they celebrated Carnevale, their last chance to indulge the sins of the flesh before Lent. Today Lent is over and chocolate eggs are about to be opened. Like Lent, the season of advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden. Those scrupulous enough to have gone through the period of Lent with any amount of self-denial can look forward to enjoying the good things in life again. Today we normally only hear the Benedictus in Advent and Lent. The Transfiguration, observed traditionally in this last Sunday before Lent, brings Epiphany to a close with another divine irruption into the earthly. However, we were still left without an organ to play for the service. As luck would have it, it's Lent anyway, so a lot of the music is unaccompanied. Also known as narcissus and even jonquils, they are also associated with Lent and referred to as the Lent Lily. He became a bencher in 1586 and was elected a Reader in 1587, delivering his first set of lectures in Lent the following year. In theory, these celebrations are the last chance to let one's hair down before Lent s sober reflections commence. As a result, Mardi Gras, the culmination of the Carnival season pre-ceding Lent, is observed in Pensacola. Knox returned to London in order to deliver a sermon before the King and the Court during Lent and he again refused to take the assigned post. Which festival is recognised in many parts ol the world as the last opportunity for indulger before the start of Lent? From then on, he wore a heavy iron chain cilice around his waist, next to the skin, each Lent as penance, adding extra ounces every year. Show More Sentences The church's 29th annual Lenten Fish Fry, held on consecutive Fridays during Lent, winds down today, as volunteers serve more than 1,000 meals. For us, Lent was about the mite boxes we were given in each Sunday school class through sixth grade. What is the more common name for the Lent Lily, a flower symbolising friendship? A common name for the little wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, in full flower now, is the Lent lily. Every weekday in Great Lent there are specific liturgical services which includes prostration or profound bows a number of times. While one royal faction was celebrating Easter, the other would still be fasting during Lent. In his first public controversy in 1522, he attacked the custom of fasting during Lent. Images of Great Lent and Pascha The Lent and Easter Journeys as guided by the icons of the season, presented by the Right Rev. Ricci remained there employed in teaching and the ministry until the end of Lent, 1582, when he was summoned to Macau to prepare to enter China. In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. A common name for the little wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus, which is in full flower now, is the Lent lily. The city's transport chief, Graham Hinchey, and left-winger Sue Lent have both submitted challenges. The Vespers which begins Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues through the following week. There are Epistle lessons for every day of the year, except for weekdays during Great Lent, when the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated. This day always falls within Lent, during which there are no obligatory memorials. However, this contradicts the Quaresma name, since the returning supply ship was sailing well after Lent. Thinglets fit only to wrap candles in, or make winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep butter in the marketplace from melting. Pascolas would perform at religious and social functions many times of the year, especially during Lent and Easter. The Missio Metropolis, as it is known, is an initiative to make special efforts during Lent this year in mission, outreach and catechesis. In western countries the daffodil is also associated with spring festivals such as Lent and its successor Easter. Find more words! 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