Do we say aisle or isle

aisle 813 occurrences

The day was gradually wearing away; the distant tread of loiterers about the abbey grew less and less frequent; the sweet-tongued bell was summoning to evening prayers; and I saw at a distance the choristers, in their white surplices, crossing the aisle and entering the choir.

A peculiar melancholy reigns over the aisle where Mary lies buried.

An easy ascent leads to the immense passages of the triforium, in which, opening from the gallery above the south aisle, is the Library, founded by Bishop Compton, who crowned William and Mary, Archbishop Seeker refusing to do so.

Almost the only interesting feature retained in this cruelly abused building is the figure of a pedler with his pack and dog (on the third window of the north aisle) who left "Pedlar's Acre" to the parish, on condition of his figure being always preserved on one of the church windows.

The famous inscription, "O, rare Ben Jonson!" is three times cut in the Abbey; once in Poets' Corner and twice in the north aisle, where he was buried,a little slab in the pavement marking his grave.

In the nave, between the columns of the side aisles, I saw one or two monuments.... I left my seat, and after strolling up and down the aisle a few times sallied forth into the churchyard.

I tried to fancy his figure on the delightful walk that extends in front of those priestly abodes, from which and the interior lawns it is separated by an open-work iron fence, lined with rich old shrubbery, and overarched by a minster-aisle of venerable trees.

I'll sing of some old cathedral pile, Where, as we sit in a carved oak pew, The sunlight illumines nave and aisle, And peace seems thrilling us through and through.

And so I smiled across the aisle, And met the winsome, merry smile She sent so bold; At last she laughed, then after while She cooed aloud in friendly style, "I'm free years old!" University of Chicago Weekly.

In the E. aisle of the North Transept is a remarkable monument to Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale.

[parts of a church: list] chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo^, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis^, credence, baldachin, baldacchino^; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum [Lat.], jube^; mourner's bench, mourner's seat.

Standing, a moment after, just at the edge of the aisle, a lady, clad in velvet, brushed against her, then gathered her costly garments with a hand ringed and dazzling with diamonds, shrinking as if she had touched some accursed thing, and sweeping by.

Another laid him down in the little aisle flanking the compartment, where at least he might spraddle his limbs and where also, persons passing the length of the car stepped upon his face and figure from time to time.

Still dubious of us, he came now and stood in the aisle, rocking slightly on his bolster legs and eying us glassily.

It fell to my lot that second night to sleep in the aisle.

By-and-by the children of the Sunday-school were marched into the neighbouring pews on the other side of the aisle, and one of the lady teachers made eager signs for us to come away from our strange position.

In a serious yet coaxing tone, she said, "Won't you take a seat here on this side of the aisle?" "No, thank you, madam," I replied; "we are quite comfortable.

An usher came down the aisle, and stood there, uncertain what to do.

And next morning at chapel when Joel, fearing to be late, hurried in and down the side aisle to his seat, his appearance was the signal for such an enthusiastic outburst of cheers and acclamations that he stopped, looked about in bewilderment, and then slipped with crimson cheeks into his seat, the very uncomfortable cynosure of all eyes.

We'll just follow the main aisle, straight in front of us."

Groping her way up the aisle and towards the chancel, she sat down on the elevated part of the pavement above Shakspeare's grave.

God's Image in Man Pair of Saucers Paracelsus Pierre and His Poodle Pierre and His People When a customer in a Boston department store asked a clerk for Hichens's Bella Donna, the reply was, "Drug counter, third aisle over.

A Duluth pastor makes it a point to welcome any strangers cordially, and one evening, after the completion of the service, he hurried down the aisle to station himself at the door.

While he was leaving the car the daughter crossed the aisle to speak to a friend, and at the same time a grim old maid took the seat and moved up to the window.

" A college professor, noted for strict discipline, entered the classroom one day and noticed a girl student sitting with her feet in the aisle and chewing gum.

isle 1693 occurrences

Notwithstanding his failing health, and not infrequent absence from his parishfor he occasionally visited the Isle of Wight, Hastings, and other watering-places with his Hampstead friendsCrabbe was living down at Trowbridge much of the unpopularity with which he had started.

Constantinople, the Isle of Pearls, and Poems.

The island of Rona is a small and very rocky spot of land, lying between the isle of Skye and the main land of Applecross, and is well known to mariners for the rugged and dangerous nature of the coast.

He was succeeded in 59 by Suetonius Paulinus, who passed through Leicester from the Isle of Anglesea when the insurrection under Boadicea broke out.

Sch., for Student Aid, Hampton Inst. 20.00 Presque Isle.

The soldiers, in general, bore much ill will to this officer, who had seen little service, and whom they reproached with having treated them harshly while they were in garrison in the Isle of Rhé.

SEE Terhune, Albert Payson. TERRY, ROBERT C. Guide to Cuba, including the Isle of Pines.

Guide to Cuba, including the Isle of Pines.

England, the unknown isle.

England the unknown isle.

BISCHOFF, ISLE.

Isle of escape, by Ishbel Ross.

The Isle of Capri.

Cinderella Isle.

SEE Hummel, George F. Lazy isle.

The Golden isle.

On one of these islands I found some Spaniards, but they belonged to the isle of Trinidad, who came hither in a sloop to make salt, and try to find some pearl muscles.

It reminded me, too, of the Isle of Voices, and the little magic fires that rose and were extinguished again, while the phantom voices rang in the sea-breeze.

THE SILENT ISLE.

***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILENT ISLE*** *******

It waved not through an Eastern sky, Beside a fount of Araby; It was not fann'd by Southern breeze In some green isle of Indian seas; Nor did its graceful shadow sleep O'er stream of Afric, lone and deep.

It whisper'd of his own bright isle, That lit the ocean with a smile.

AFTER THE WINTER Some day, when trees have shed their leaves, And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle Where bamboos spire the shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

It Is a terrible error to suppose that because one is happily able to relish "Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyll, or Tennyson's enchanted reverie," therefore a solemn mission calls you to run off to write bad verse at the Lakes or the Isle of Wight.

" A green son of the Emerald Isle was eating sweet corn from the cob for the first time.

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