There was the chancel, guarded by two little cherubims looking uncomfortably squeezed between arch and wall, and adorned with the escutcheons of the Oldinport family, which showed me inexhaustible possibilities of meaning in their blood-red hands, their death's-heads and cross-bones, their leopards' paws and Maltese crosses.

A picture by Albano of this subject, in which Christ comes flying or floating on the air, like an incorporeal being, surrounded by little fluttering cherubim, very much like Cupids, is an example of all that is most false and objectionable in feeling and treatment.

As the riders passed under the city gate, where the golden cherubim that Titus took from the Jews' temple in Jerusalem gleamed in the westering sun, Sextus noticed a slave of the municipium who wrote down the names of individuals who came and went.

I broke the infernal gates and looked on him Who fronts the strong creation with a curse; Even the god of a lost universe, Smiling above his hideous cherubim.

Nor join in evening hymn: Like a devil of the pit I seem'd, 'Mid holy cherubim!

Some deep ocean-current has been moving her on, strong, but silent,yes, stronger than these noisy winds that puff our sails until they are swollen as the cheeks of jubilant cherubim.

With the pomp which he had adopted since his last manifestoa large cherubim's sword on a red leather cushion, ornamented with golden tassels, borne before him, and twelve men with burning torches following himKohlhaas was just returning from the place of execution, while the people on both sides timidly made way for him.

While Shakespeare in the last Act of The Merchant of Venice makes all the stars vocal, and not the planets only: There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims...

SHECHINAH, a glory as of the Divine presence over the mercy-seat in the Jewish Tabernacle, and reflected from the winged cherubim which overshadowed it, the reality of which it is the symbol being the Divine presence in man.