55 Metaphors for temples

The principal temple, Kylas, is the most wonderful of all those which are hewn out of the rock.

Temple is another kind of man, and would never own it, were it ten times proved.

The sight of this phenomenon by no doubtful indications portended that this temple should be the seat of empire, and the capital of the world; and so declared the soothsayers, both those who were in the city, and those whom they had summoned from Etruria, to consult on this subject.

His temple is a darkness, a black hollow, ever hungry, in the heart of man, who tumbles into it every thing that should make life noble and lovely.

It would certainly seem as though the Temple of the Three Windows, the most significant structure within the citadel, is the building referred to by Pachacuti Yamqui Saleamayhua.

The temple Cook and his officers inspected was the tribal church of the noble pair.

And when Cambyses (529-522 B.C.) entered Egypt he found this temple built, and, though the temple of the gods of Egypt were all at that time overthrown, no one injured anything in this temple."

Temples of an oval form were representations of the mundane egg, a symbol of the world.

CHARLOTTE TEMPLE, the daughter of an English gentleman, whose seduction by an officer in the British army, her sad life and lonely death, are the elements of a novel bearing her name, written by "Mrs. Rowson."

The Temple became not only the Sanctuary, but also one of the strongest fortresses in the world.

The temples and other places frequented by pilgrims are filthy hotbeds of disease, and the water they drink from the holy wells is absolutely putrid, so that the odor can be detected a considerable distance.

Bishop Temple is a fine fellow, and I hope all will now go well.

In those times a temple was a more reliable landlord than an individual alien, and the poorer peasants readily became temple tenants; this increased their inclination towards Buddhism.

In the Palais Royal the three most remarkable temples of dissipation are Very's for gastronomes, Robert's faro bank for gamesters, and the Café Montausier for those devoted to the fair sex.

It seems strange that men could fight in such a place; but no temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visiters.

Now of the fancy and fashion of this we should not complainquite the contraryin a professed novel: there is a theatre in which it would be exquisitely appropriate and attractive; but the Temple of History is not the floor for a morris-dancethe Muse Clio is not to be worshipped in the halls of Terpsichore.

But the temples are not mysteries.

[Footnote 1: Temple was secretary to Philip Sidney, William Davison, and the Earl of Essex, and, from 1619, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

[Footnote 1: Lord Temple was Mr. Pitt's brother-in-law, a restless and impracticable intriguer.

[Footnote 66: As this temple was about a mile from the city, it is probable the Romans were defeated and that the second fight at the gate means simply that they repulsed an assault on the walls.

In our mystic association, every Mason represents a stone in that spiritual temple, "that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," of which the temple of Solomon was the type.

They thought it degrading to him whose temple is the universe, to suppose that he would dwell in any house made with hands.

Mr. Temple is the head of it, and he's awful richhe owns railroads and things.

The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, with his companions Juno and Minerva, was in a special sense the religious centre of the State and its dominion.

Its temples are now a ruin.

55 Metaphors for  temples