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Sentence Examples She kept waiting for The Andy to move. For Warholians, a more loyal army of fans, the statue is a shrine. I return to the shrine and edge towards the Brahma statue, the sweet incense smoke creating a haze around it. As I prayed this weekend, I lit the candles in our little shrine and found it focused my prayers beautifully. It is directed to a pantheon of deities, gods and goddesses, each of whom are housed in their own shrine. The final pillar entails a pilgrimage, or hajj, to the Kaaba, the holy shrine in Mecca, that is to be made at least once in one's lifetime. The shrine is revered as the place where Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead. Even the monumental Marian shrine in Washington, D.C., replete with a plethora of elegant Byzantine images, feels cold and inauthentic to me. Towards the north-east corner of the site there was a shrine which later became the site for a small Roman temple. Since then, the shrine has been buzzing with religious and social activities. The walls which encase the tea room double up as a shrine to the most storied brew-ups of eras past. It is of a transcendent level of kitsch, unsurpassed in any votive shrine I've ever seen. I think it stems from the tradition of visiting your local shrine one month after the baby is born to do the blessing thing. Just a few yards away from the mahal, the strains of Carnatic music emanate from a small shrine. According to devotees, pilgrimage to the Nizamuddin shrine enables them to partake of the saint's blessedness. On that day, children of those ages are taken to a Shinto shrine to be blessed. The shrine of the Sleeping Buddha is reached via a steep set of steps wound through two moon gates. The shrine was included in the collection as an important monument in the history of Japanese architecture, no more, no less. The shrine of a Mohammedan saint which is at the present day neglected and forgotten by Mohammedans, is worshipped by Hindus! Backyard bouquets, notes, and cryptic ex voto objects are left at the small outdoor shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Adriana hid the trinkets in her bedroom, in her little shrine with its statue of the Virgin. Show More Sentences Family and friends have created a shrine to the memory of two teenagers killed in a road accident at Nursling. Robben Island, for hundreds of years an international symbol of repression, now a shrine to the human spirit, has an hourly ferry service. The fourth was a temple of a goal, a shrine to what this team was all about. It's all about buying the best animals here, but the posh dining room on the top floor is truly a shrine to meat of good provenance. The parade left Fred's home in Radcliffe Road, a shrine to his love of industry, at 11 am. The poster is still on the wall in the bedroom my mother has turned into a shrine to my success. In amongst the hand-drawn maps and dinosaur relics, I found in Room 26, a shrine to Mongolia's institutional respect for the environment. She even invited me into her house one day and showed me a room that was like a shrine to him. It's a shrine to his daughter, who's been taken out of the country by his ex-wife. The house is packed with his daughter's absence. Twenty years ago this week the India army stormed the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion. When pilgrims and the holy men of the shrine gathered to hear Guru Nanak and question him, he sang in Persian. The government mounted a new Operation in May 1988 to displace these bandits from the holy shrine. The Shinto shrine honors convicted Japanese war criminals along with the war dead. Thank the hallowed shrine of chipmunk heaven that I shaved my legs this morning. As we were driving through Calcutta, my friend pointed to a little shrine to a god embedded in a wall just below waist level. The shrine also attracts Indo-Muslim mystics called faqir, religious mendicants who observe lives of poverty, chastity, meditation and prayer. A time bomb, packed with about 6.6lbs of explosive, went off among pilgrims as they took supper in an open area about 490 ft from the shrine. His visits to the shrine have been a thorn that is increasingly irritating relations between the two countries. Wax masks were worn by Roman actors in funeral processions and were kept in a special shrine in Roman houses. They have not scrupled to damage the shrine in the past, when they put down the 1991 uprising. Show More Sentences Join the jet-set and admire some of the most stunning views anywhere from this shrine to thalassotherapy. In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine. He equipped the main sanctuary of the shrine dedicated to the sun goddess with solar panels. It was replaced by the older form, shrine Shinto, the worship of kami in shrines or sanctuaries, tended by priests. Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area. It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine. From around one corner of the shrine another priest appeared sitting astride a huge elephant. The Emperor Augustus had built a round shrine in front of it to put a Roman hallmark on Greece. The dancers, arrayed in awe-inspiring costumes and hideous masks, enact weird rituals before the village shrine. The television has at last gained its rightful and proper place as household god, oracle and shrine. Some devotees convinced him to join and to start taking charna amrit, the water which naturally flows from under the feet of Mata in the shrine. Leafy branches hover above the shrine figures in the altarpieces of Tilman Riemenschneider and his contemporaries. It has now been cleared up, a touristic shrine with arty wrought-iron lamps, brick walls carefully pointed, everywhere evidence of restoration. A shrine dedicated to a 12th century Archbishop of York and smashed during the Reformation is being recreated in the city. The tone here is adulatory and uncritical but the photographs alone will delight those who worship at Gandhi's shrine. Now, having inspired the entire neighborhood to renovate Her shrine, Mariamman has settled into a peaceful and much adored life. The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders. Located on the acropolis at Lindos, the shrine of Athena is alleged to have been founded by the mythical king Danaos. The portraits and incense sticks of the family shrine, built into the wall of one of the rooms, have been replaced by a vase and contemporary pictures. The second grave in the children's burial plot has been fenced off into a shrine and personalised with a pot cherub, dried flowers and child's handheld windmill. Show More Sentences The Canterbury Tales bear eloquent witness to the fact that for centuries Becket's tomb in the cathedral was the greatest pilgrimage shrine in England. This would typically comprise individual cells arranged around a central courtyard very often enclosing a railed tree, a shrine room, and an ambulatory. In the middle of the courtyard, where the public apparitions took place, a large shrine is encircled by benches. You know, they could have shot him up, but it would have damaged forever the shrine, and that was an untenable situation politically in the world. The Mahaboddhi Temple was originally a shrine built in the third century BC by Asoka, one of India's earliest and most reverentially remembered emperors. The national culture of literati who regarded him as the most important figure of the area built a shrine for him that reflected their perceptions of his status. This treasury which is located inside a safe locked basement beneath the shrine contains historical artifacts, priceless manuscripts and a significant amount of gold and gems. One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of sheik Adi ibn Musafir. In a long struggle with a smack addiction, he made novenas at the shrine of St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases. Justin Bieber was forced to apologize for his visit to the shrine this week. A photograph of the balustrade and the underside of the eaves of the main sanctuary at the inner shrine extends to the edge of all four sides of the left page with no frame. In the shrine of Lord Chandramouleeswarar, the tutelary deity of the Marathas, the priests intone the mantras as the lingam is bathed in milk, sandalwood paste and water. At the shrine itself, and in the devotions surrounding the mandatory baths, the principle that Mariology is Christology could not have been more explicit. Yes, some even crawl the last mile to the shrine, for they have supped at the cup of scrumpy and yea it maketh them fall down and cry out in tongues. After it was settled, the fighters at the shrine removed the bandanas that had masked their faces and slipped away into the city's maze of alleyways. You are invariably greeted with a whopping great shrine in the front room, decorated to the max, with a door leading to the kitchen and family quarters behind. It had an assembly hall, or basilica, where the orders were issued, and there was a shrine to the imperial cult, where statues of the Emperor were kept. The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained. And the red in the torii gate at the shrine entrance repels sins and keeps away evil spirits, while trees around the shrine protect spiritual grounds. Taki and Eiko stopped before the torii of the local Shinto shrine, staring at the cobblestone walkway surrounded by a lush, well-trimmed carpet of grass. Show More Sentences It's home to Meiji Jingu, possibly the foremost example of traditional Japanese shrine architecture in the country and home to the largest torii gates in Japan. It was established in 1869 by Emperor Meiji as a Shinto shrine to commemorate the lives lost in campaigns to return direct imperial rule to Japan. For the true believer, they could be shrine, classroom, community center and encounter session all rolled into one. Securing awe and applaud from people standing on both sides of the road, the procession moved on to the holy shrine carrying the shawls with utmost respect. It is now a hotel which its owner, Francisco Pons Montanari, a Menorcan of Italian descent, has virtually turned into a shrine to the Royal Navy in the eighteenth century. Mum, daughter and son-in-law turned it into a shrine to the Royal family. The National Trust for Scotland has signalled that it does not have the means to buy or run the mansion, which is preserved as a shrine to the writer of Ivanhoe. There is a memorial garden, which has become a shrine to the event. Mr Clarke is so proud of his country and its history that he transformed the living room of the couple's Odsal home into a shrine to England and St George. The five-room, two-bedroom unit was a shrine to Ava Gardner. It is now accepted in art circles that the belt was a reliquary or shrine. There is a new statue in the shrine, larger and gold-plated. The shrine is located 12 kilometers from the nearest motorable road. The mahout bowed to the Goddess, hands arched in the gesture of namaskar, then began circling the shrine followed by the cymbal-clashers and the trumpet blowers. For example, the few photographs taken inside a dark doorway or unlit shrine exhibit dramatic shadows, but that was because Fagg did not use flashbulbs. Police are following a definite line of enquiry in their ongoing investigation into the vandalisation of a memorial shrine on the outskirts of the town. This Sunday, October 26, a record number of people are expected at Knock Shrine when the relics of Mother Teresa will arrive. Rather than being religious in character, the Shrine concerns relations between community and memory. Free langars organised by Sri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board have been called off. The Feast of the Assumption was celebrated with prayers at the Marian Shrine in the village last Sunday after 10.00 am mass. Show More Sentences The memorial ball, however, was descended directly from the main sanctuary at Ise Shrine. The Shrine is a monument to the dedication of the people who built it and maintained it. The Shrine is within a massive cave, the mouth of which is about 150 ft wide. The Vincentian Pilgrimages takes place to Knock Shrine on Saturday while the Bus Eireann Staff Pilgrimage will be held on Sunday 14th. The main gateway to St Jude's Shrine becomes visible a mile or so out of Omeath on the main road to Carlingford in Ireland's County Louth. Traditionally, the Ise Shrine was dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years using hinoki cypress lumber from Kiso. In 1993, I was with the choir of the National Shrine on a trip to Rome, where we sang a private concert for the Holy Father. The Shrine authorities produced elevations and perspective drawings of even the most sacred buildings in order to facilitate rebuilding. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonisation. Grievers laid a wreath near the Saint Thomas historical shrine, where the Czech national, Thomas Rezika, died. Old Minster was the recipient of a shrine for the relics of St Birinus and the probable confirmation of its privileges. James to the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, in Galicia, Spain, where the shrine of the apostle James is located. Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint, Edward the Confessor, whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary. Thereafter, it was occasionally visited, but left untouched, as a kind of shrine. Chichester Cathedral, founded in the 11th century, is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and contains a shrine to Saint Richard of Chichester. The Jukun shrine in the Wukari Federation, Nigeria is dedicated to crocodiles in thanks for their aid during migration. There will usually be at least one lamp in each shrine, and the main shrine may contain several. In the home shrine, the style of lamp is usually different, containing only one wick. The lamp in the home shrine is supposed to be lit before any other lights are turned on at night. Notable buildings in the city include the shrine of Sahaba, as well as the 15th century Sheikh Hanafi Mosque and various houses of coral. Show More Sentences There is a spot in Mactan Island called the Mactan shrine where the battle is reenacted during its anniversary. The Magellan's Cross and the aforementioned Magellan's shrine were erected in Cebu City and Mactan Island. If the patient did not recover, the shrine was destroyed and cursed, so as to expel the goddess from the house. The style is characterized by tall pyramids supporting a summit shrine adorned with a roof comb, and accessed by a single doorway. Maya lineages were patrilineal, so the worship of a prominent male ancestor would be emphasized, often with a household shrine. The Huguenot Society of America maintains Manakin Episcopal Church in Virginia as an historic shrine with occasional services. A talisman of the Grand Shrine of Ise was placed vertically within the shrine. There were also talismen for the guardian kami. An aedicule is a small building, as a shrine, imitating the form of the larger building. The devotees believe that the shrine at Baba Nagri possesses miraculous powers and throng the place for wish fulfilment. In the classic Heian period, the court would travel to Ise to visit the shrine to the Sun Goddess and imperial progenitrix Amaterasu. His vehicles were known as fiacres, as the main vehicle depot apparently was opposite a shrine to Saint Fiacre. The islanders told him that a small shrine dedicated to Our Lady was nearby. In 1250, the year of her canonization, her body and that of her husband were exhumed and placed in a new shrine in the Abbey. In 1250 Pope Innocent IV canonized her, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland. Its usually sponsored by a local shrine or temple, though they can be secular. Lady Penelope, the arbiter of good taste and a chic blonde, she who genuflects at the shrine of pink. Nevertheless, the level of participation remains high, especially during festivals and occasions such as the first shrine visit of the New Year. He is worshiped along with his brother, Balarama, and sister, Subhadra, in the main shrine. A Hindu shrine dedicated to King Siliwangi in Pura Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta, Bogor. The relics of David and Justinian of Ramsey Island were kept in a portable casket on the stone base of the shrine. Show More Sentences Lady Penelope, the arbiter of good taste and a chic blond, she who genuflects at the shrine of pink. Consequently, he named his first son Edward and built the existing magnificent shrine for the Confessor. Women still pay visits to the shrine in large number to pay tribute to the great Pashto language. A lot of people are under the impression that the reliquary will be something similar to that of St. Therese of Lisieux which visited the Shrine two years ago. When we find the first seed it will be covered in Saranwrap and laid to rest in the shrine of the Light of Fluorescence. He served as a steward at Knock Shrine for 15 years and willingly gave of his time to assist the invalids and pilgrims throughout the pilgrimage season. In Chicago, a favourite resto is Topolobampo, celebrity chef Rick Bayless's shrine to nuevo Mexican cuisine. Tenders are invited for Upgradation of illumination system of shrine premises of Shamas Din Iraqi RA at Zadibal Srinagar. The Minerva Shrine in the Roman quarry is the only rock cut Roman shrine still in situ in Britain. She challenges the received logic that holds a shrine to be a Shinto institution and Shinto in turn to be a religion. Every lane, bylane and road leading to the shrine had been heavily barricaded. Pilgrims from all over Scotland came in large numbers hoping to be blessed, and in many cases to be cured, at the shrine of Saint Andrew. Andrew at Patras in a special shrine and are revered in a special ceremony every 30 November, his feast day. During the English Reformation, Augustine's shrine was destroyed and his relics were lost. He now stood by the sidewalk shrine to the two fallen officers and said. The penitents form a procession and they walk together to a shrine, a church or any sacred place. When Gregory was informed, he told Augustine to stop the cult and use the shrine for the Roman St Sixtus. Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest Sikh shrine. One religious site was revealed to be a shrine of a local St Sixtus, whose worshippers were unaware of details of the martyr's life or death. It was also a centre of family religious rites, containing a shrine and the images of family ancestors. Show More Sentences In the stable before the shrine of Epona Lucius lunges at the roses with abandon and is quickly beaten away. Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered. The shrine was destroyed during the English Reformation, but the bones were reburied in the chapel. A pilgrim destination, an ancient shrine, and a battle with a magician are only a few of the subplots involving John's investigative skills. Charles Lamb worshipped, like the Spartans in Edgar Poe's story, at the mysterious shrine of the god Gelasma. Olav at the Nidaros shrine, and with them, much of the contact with cultural and economic life in the rest of Europe. It hangs, canopylike, from the ceiling of a gallery, making the exhibition look like a temporary encampment and like a shrine. The Maoli clan worships a goddess at a shrine which women may not approach. Pilgrims came to touch the royal shrine of the murdered Henry VI, the fragment of the True Cross and other important relics. Mark's Coptic Church, a shrine dedicated to the Holy Family, in a kneeling position, surrounded by light. One notable factor in the book reportedly talks about the Jedi Temple at Coruscant being built over an ancient Sith shrine. They edified the shrine at Monte Sant'Angelo and built a mausoleum to the Hauteville family at Venosa. This revenue included the profits from the sale of pilgrim badges depicting Becket, his martyrdom, or his shrine. The shrine in the Trinity Chapel was placed directly above Becket's original tomb in the crypt. In the event, Henry VI was not canonised and the project was abandoned, although the shrine continued to attract a flood of pilgrims. The shrine was supported by three pairs of pillars, placed on a raised platform with three steps. The April date is the date when his relics were translated to a new shrine. In a chapel east of the crossing and high altar, there are remains of the fourteenth century marble shrine of St Alban. Beijing also demanded that Abe declare he will no longer pay visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. In 1020, he made a pilgrimage and offered his own crown upon the shrine as atonement for the sins of his forefathers. Show More Sentences The shrine at Bury St Edmunds soon became one of the most famous and wealthy pilgrimage locations in England. In 1104 Cuthbert's tomb was opened again and his relics translated to a new shrine behind the altar of the recently completed Cathedral. The shrine was then transferred to a sturdier, probably wooden, building known as the White Church. This trope of hagiography was offered for a sign that the new shrine should be built here. The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. On 7 July 1220, in the 50th jubilee year of his death, Becket's remains were moved from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel. Later, King Henry VIII caused the shrine and saintly relics to be destroyed, but some have been recovered to be housed at Shrewsbury and Holywell. During the 10th and 11th centuries the Cathedral was regularly raided by Vikings, who removed the shrine from the church and stripped off the precious metal adornments. He is buried at the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation of West Grinstead, where he had regularly attended Mass as a parishioner. The final day is spent in Haifa to visit the Bahai Shrine, Persian Garden and Mount Carmel, before a final short city tour of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Wherever he was shipwrecked, he was to build a shrine for them. After the Conquest, his shrine in St Augustine's Abbey held a central position in one of the axial chapels, flanked by the shrines of his successors Laurence and Mellitus. She also long participated in her parish church's pilgrimages to the Knock Shrine, County Mayo, Ireland, and sang there at the Marian basilica. The shrine and tomb of the famed 13th century poet and philosopher, Jalaluddin Rumi, who founded the Mevlevi Sufi brotherhood, is one of the most popular attractions. Like the Imam Husayn Shrine, though, nothing of its original structure remains. Early in April he arrived at the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn. They were married on May 25, 1946, at Shrine of the Little Flower in Ferndale, Mich. The rear of the shrine, not intended to be seen, is decorated with crosses while the handle is decorated with, among other work, Celtic designs of birds. His father went on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket to pray for Philip's recovery and was told that his son had indeed recovered. Edmund's shrine was of silver and adorned with solid silver statues and when his relics were translated to it, the population came for eight days to honour the saint. Show More Sentences During the remaining three days of the hajj, the pilgrims continue the ritual stoning before performing the circumambulation of the Kaaba shrine in Mecca and heading home. The devotees go through a round of prayers, including 11 circumambulations of the shrine and make a vow that they would be back at the temple, once their wish is granted. Surprisingly, no one has yet set up an online shrine to the Mile Long Club, which is devoted to similar triumphs aboard Eurostar as it trundles under the Channel. On the south side of the River Dee, in Handbridge, is Edgar's Field, another public park, which contains Minerva's Shrine, a Roman shrine to the goddess Minerva. Edmund's shrine was destroyed in 1539, during the English Reformation. The Khitan had their holiest shrine on Mount Muye where portraits of their earliest ancestor Qishou Khagan, his wife Kedun and eight sons were kept in two temples. Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me. A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity. They built a shrine around the stone and it became a sacred object. About 15 to 20 million pilgrims visit the shrine every year. The tabs are sold for scrap metal by the Aleppo Shrine, based in Wilmington, according to West Boylston resident and Shriner William Peterson. Henry Cousens had suggested that there must have been an original shrine at the level of the hall, but this does not detract from thc sacrality of the lower shrine. If your heart flutters for yesteryear's Hollywood goddesses, spritz, gargle, and straighten your dinner jacket for a visit to this shrine to silver-screen glamour. They range from early examples of the 8th and 9th centuries, such as the brass Crowned Buddha Shakyamuni from Gilgit and an intricately carved wooden travelling shrine. David was buried at St David's Cathedral at St Davids, Pembrokeshire, where his shrine was a popular place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages. The street also contains the Shrine of Margaret Clitherow, although it is not located in the house where she lived. If I profane with my unworthiest hand, This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this, My lips two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. The Shrine of St Cuthbert was located in the eastern apsidal end of the cathedral. For example, on special occasions, they purchased flowers and candles, which were placed near butsudan, a small wooden shrine, which commemorated ancestors in the church. Among the prominent tombs or dargahs are the Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Khan Saheb at Cotta in Ponda, the shrine in Quepem near Cuncolim and the dargah at Betim. Show More Sentences Sometimes the relics were held in a separate shrine, near the high altar. St Candida and Holy Cross at Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only church in the country, besides Westminster Abbey, to have a shrine that contains the relics of a saint. Other examples of great importance are the portal of the Shrine of Mary Queen of Anglona and the ambulatory and radiating chapels of the Aversa Cathedral. Examples from Classical Literature We possess his relics and they are enclosed in the shrine under the high altar. If you visit them you will see everything is accordant with the great shrine you have left. In Aegina, Hypereides and the others had been taken from the shrine of Aeacus. And to the ampulla and shrine of Saint Remy a crown, and likewise a crown to the holy relics there kept. The Anunnaki, wishing to give an expression of their admiration for Marduk's heroism, decided to build him a shrine or temple. Trent, watching her, felt that at last he had explored to the inner shrine of that arcanum in her eyes. A voice was heard from behind the bamboo curtain of the shrine, and the old people were informed that their wish would be granted. If a woman greatly desires a child she will go to a shrine and lay a stone on it which she calls the dharna or deposit or pledge. The old man rose and went to an inner room where hung the butsudan, the shrine. He was canonised in 1037, and his relics were translated and placed in a golden shrine. Thirty or forty men were tapping the pillars and steps of a carnelian shrine heavy with gold. Lspes, village and holy shrine in the valley of the Prahova in the Carpathian Mountains. Or a cartful of peasant women stopping to cross themselves at a way-side shrine? A library of trivia, museum of curiosa, sideshow of freaks, and shrine of greatness. Not the most daring of visitors had ever been known to desecrate that shrine. Another custom known as dharna is that of a suppliant placing a stone on the shrine of a god or tomb of a saint. The priest arose, bathed, opened the shrine, and found the kshir under the lappet of the god's dhoti. By her presence she had sanctified it and made of it a shrine for his meditative and wakeful hours. If he visits a religious shrine, he can think of nothing but the abominations of the scarlet woman of Babylon. So much for lovers continuing their libations at Bacchus' shrine until they see double. Show More Sentences Stones and ores, some semiprecious, have come from all parts of the world to be patterned into this bright-colored shrine. They assumed the disguise of pilgrims to St. Margaret's shrine at Dunfermline. Kjin is supposed to reside in the enoki tree, and in front of this tree there is a small shrine and torii. It had no shrine, for the shekinah was to be in the hearts of those who worshipped. That is the temple-fire, in the shrine of hanuman, of the village of Pateera. The most prominent university of the shiite Mohammedans is in the shrine place of Karballa. The darkness of the shrine symbolises the darkness of the world, of life and death and being. It was only necessary to call the guardian of her shrine at the high altar. The Empress, her head bowed in silence, knelt before the weird impressive shrine, side by side with the starets. As it was yesterday so it was to-day in that gracious shrine of immutability. A cluster of stephanotis in a low Venetian vase stood in front of that portrait, like flowers before a shrine. One legend informs us that a woman who had been married many years and had not been blessed with a child prayed at Inari's shrine. An Inari shrine in a plum grove offered no particular interest, beyond recent inclosure showing a neighbour's hand. Ah, yellow and irradiant sunflower of my soul's secret shrine, sing not thus dolefully, I entreat thee. This latter, like the temple of Jagannath at Puri, is suspected of having been a Buddhist shrine. And the loculus was placed in the shrine, and the shrine for the present closed. The body was then lifted to its place in the shrine, and the panels of the loculus refixed. Medallion pictures in neutral colors, of a cathedral porch, shrine and Mountain View, alternating on a stone-wall ground. Thus, with Piero for mystagogue, we enter an inner shrine of deep religious revelation. Occasionally a rude figure of the bull Nandi, and an iron trident mark the shrine. Show More Sentences Little wonder that the n.o. is inclined to be superstitious, and to burn incense at the shrine of Joss! The wonder of Philae, with its osirian shrine and island sanctuary, caught him as it has caught most other humans. They were about to enter the Communist shrine and wisecracking was hardly in order. Another daughter of the Paphian divinity presides at the shrine of rouge et noir. He therefore has inside his house his prayer wheel and his little shrine, before which he offers up incense daily. Your gentle heart, my girl, is too pure and holy a shrine to afford refuge to a rebel, and a profaner of woman's sacred rights. Marie stopped the sleigh at a wayside shrine, and getting out knelt to say a prayer for the travelers who had died on the rax. Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint. Tisher, and lay an offering on the shrine of Propriety by affecting to look for some desiderated article. Through many loveless songless days We have to seek the golden shrine, But Venus taught you how to twine Love's violets with Apollo's bays. Someone had put our lanterns on the top of this pyramid shrine. How else could this sacred shrine of the out-of-doors be preserved? The shrine on the Quirinal is minutely described by classical writers. Though of a tepid personality, she was a worshipper at Hermione's shrine. He wished to rub off the velvet of his horns against the cold stones of Kali's statue, and stamped his feet when he saw the man at the shrine. In the ancient god-way the temple or shrine was called a miya. In his dream he stood before the shrine of Khonsu, expeller of Demons. Even now he prays thrice daily before her ihai on the shrine. So there was a time when Lombardi was criticized for being an authoritarian martinet who worshiped at the shrine of success. The lady, indeed, bore a very fair likeness to a reverend effigy in some idolatrous shrine. Show More Sentences In the centre of the court stood the holy shrine of the Hathor. At the back of the garden you can see a shrine to the household gods. He wrote no more letters, he gazed no longer in rapt adoration, he brought no more votive offerings of gum and pencils to her shrine. But the crowd had heard him and the insult offered to the shrine. He was so different from the callow youths and dapper fellows who had heretofore worshipped at her shrine. But the Holy Laws no longer needed the safe shelter of a royal shrine. In the heart of periwinkle a new fire was kindled, a new shrine built. The rock temple at Silsila and a shrine at jebel Adda are also his. The kaaba is the most sacred shrine or altar of the Mohammedans. Its front gate, I noted, was a centuried relic from a distant shrine. The deer's antlers clashed as he strode into the shrine, clashed against the grinning statue of Kali. Under cover of the general relaxation of singing, votive offerings of respectful sympathy began to make their appearance at her shrine. It repents me that I did not give a rupee to the shrine,' said the lama on the last bead of his eighty-one. It is not right to say that Apollo fought a dragon for the Delphic shrine. The church became the shrine of the eikon of the Theotokos 227Hodegetria. A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. We also visited the shrine of St. Lucia, and so ends my tale for to-day. Find more words! 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