Do we say altar or alter

altar 2826 occurrences

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.

alter 1513 occurrences

This was a strange influence she possessed, thus to alter a man's attitude entirely by the mere voicing of a wish.

It will in no way alter my determination to keep silent.

And if you could ask Caesar himself what he had done in the city and in the garb of peace, he would reply that he had passed many excellent laws; but his memoranda he would either alter or not produce at all; or, if he did produce them, he would not class them among his acts.

It could not be that it was too late to alter that choice.

The slave's feelings toward it, are one thing; the condition itself, the object of these feelings, is another thing; his feelings cannot alter the nature of that condition.

It is very well known, I dare say, to many gentlemen in this House, that the noise and commotion were such as obliged Congress once more to alter their Treasury Department, and place it under the management of a Board of Commissioners."

His house, at Belem, was levelled to the ground at the time of the Duke's decapitation, and on the site was erected a column of disgrace, which still remains, though some shops have been erected beside it to hide the inscription; a just symbol of the conduct of the nation on this subject, for what they cannot alter they strive to conceal.

In the Mediterranean lands a new idea was beginning to alter the conduct of society.

But different meteorological conditions do not materially alter the results.

The facts of Christianity never change, the interpretations of those facts alter from age to age.

The Gospels bring before us the visible and distinct outlines of a life which, after all efforts to alter the idea of it, remains still the same; they present certain clusters of leading ideas and facts so embedded in their substance that no criticism of detail can possibly get rid of them, without absolutely obliterating the whole record.

Would it not be well to recognise the fact which we cannot alter, and to abstain from demanding from frail human nature what human nature cannot render?

SEE Calverton, V. H. ALTER, IRVING.

Harry Alter's dependabook, no.120.

Irving Alter (A); 18Aug64; R343022. ALY, BOWER.

You would have to melt off layers of hips and other bits of most of the Eastern American, and then alter the set of their bones to get them to resemble any of these.

We alter our paint often, and, at need, can alter our rig.

We alter our paint often, and, at need, can alter our rig.

It makes us so understanding of the past that we would not alter one jot or tittle in it.

Consider that by mourning and lamenting thou canst not alter the event which has occurred, and thou wilt in the end injure thyself.

"Nothing you have said seems to me to alter the situation.

Payson, Sr., had never taken any particular pains to alter his son's opinion of himself.

Even theft with asportation could not alter property rights, even in favor of innocent purchasers, when the owner did not intend to part therewith.

There is a difference; for here the same way is kept, although there might be breaches; but it is quite otherwise, if you alter the whole method from what it was at first.

Philosophers might abolish kings a hundred times over, he maintained, they could not alter the fact that every man and woman does choose a king and repudiate all the pride of citizenship for the exultation of humility.

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