3364 examples of altar in sentences

England drew her sword in this struggle on behalf of Belgium and in the name of civilisation and treaty rights; Russia has done the same on behalf of Serbia and in the name of common blood and a common altar.

Heere on my knees, at the altar of those feete, I offer up in pure and sacred breath The true speech of my hart and hart it selfe.

Croesus, king of Lydia dedicated a hundred golden tiles in the same place with a golden altar: no man came empty-handed to their shrines.

Ésta, que se agitaba en el fondo de las naves, con un rumor parecido al del mar cuando se alborota, prorrumpie en una aclamación de jubilo, acompañada del discordante sonido de las sonajas y los panderos, al mirar aparecer al arzobispo, el cual, después de sentarse junto al altar mayor bajo un solio de grana que rodearon sus familiares, echó por tres veces la bendición al pueblo.

As this took place while the priest was entering within the septum or rails of the altar, it acquired the name of Introitus or Introit."

Cuando el organista bajó de la tribuna, la muchedumbre que se agolpo á la escalera fué tanta, y tanto su afán por verle y admirarle, que el asistente temiendo, no sin razón, que le ahogaran entre todos, mando á algunos de sus ministriles para que, vara en mano, le fueran abriendo camino hasta llegar al altar mayor, donde el prelado le esperaba.

Allá lejos, en el fondo, brillaba como una estrella perdida en el cielo de la noche, una luz moribunda, la luz de la lámpara que arde en el altar mayor....

Tal vez despertará; Pero mudo y absorto y de rodillas, Como se adora á Dios ante su altar, Como yo te

altanero, -a, haughty, proud. altar, m., altar; mayor, high altar, chief altar. alterarse, to be disturbed. alternado, -a, adj.

altanero, -a, haughty, proud. altar, m., altar; mayor, high altar, chief altar. alterarse, to be disturbed. alternado, -a, adj.

altanero, -a, haughty, proud. altar, m., altar; mayor, high altar, chief altar. alterarse, to be disturbed. alternado, -a, adj.

altanero, -a, haughty, proud. altar, m., altar; mayor, high altar, chief altar. alterarse, to be disturbed. alternado, -a, adj.

ara, f., altar. árabe.

caperuza, f., pointed cap, pointed hood, hood. capilla, f., chapel; maestro de , choir-master, one who composes and directs church music; mayor, main chapel (containing the pulpit and high altar, and in most Spanish churches opposite the coro and separated from the transept by a railing).

But memory hath more lasting flowers, Which Time's rude hand can ne'er efface, The sweets we cull from friendship's bowers, The gems affection's altar grace.

In a dramatic dénouement she deserts the Marquis at the altar and throws herself upon the protection of her guardian.

She, meanwhile, has inherited a convenient sum, redeems him from his creditors, and after practicing a little mystification to test his constancy, leads him to the altar.

Rumour says that there is an altar in the vestibule of the temple, the ashes of which are never moved by any wind.

in the country of the Marrucinians; at Spoletum, that a woman was transformed into a man; at Hadria, that an altar, with appearances as of men surrounding it in white clothing, was seen in the heavens.

At break of day the whole populace, armed and unarmed, assembled at the senate-house in the Achradina: where from the altar of Concord, which stood there, one of the nobles, named Polyaenus, delivered a liberal and temperate address.

The next day, as soon as it was light, he threw open the gates of the island, and came into the forum of the Achradina; then mounting the altar of Concord, from which Polyaenus had delivered his harangue the day before, he commenced a speech by soliciting pardon for his delay.

103.A Votive Altar of the Nantes Parisiens, or the Company for the Commercial Navigation of the Seine, erected in Lutelia during the reign of Tiberius.

Fragments of this Altar, which were discovered in 1711 under the Choir of the Church of Notre-Dame, are preserved in the Museums of Cluny and the Palais des Thermes.]

It was a vision of a wondrous delicacy, such as loneliness and unhappiness alone can form in the souls they shield from the rude shocks of the common lifethe dream of a holy life, a life dim and overshadowed, vowed wholly and completely, without reward or recompense, to the woman worshipped from afar, as that of the good country curé is vowed to the God who never steps down from the tabernacle of the altar.

Is the light of the sun, then, so worthless, Worthless to sport with thy fellows in flowery glades of the forest, Under the broad green oaks, where never again shall I wander, Tossing the ball with my maidens, or wreathing the altar in garlands, Careless, with dances and songs, till the glens rang loud to our laughter.

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