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censer 74 occurrences

It is far more troublesome to justify than to glorify; the sponge works with greater difficulty than the censer; the panegyrists of the coup d'état have lost their labor.

My companion carried the missal and a crucifix; and the clerk, clothed in his surplice, carried a censer in his hand.

Then Coiat carried the censer with incense to Sartach, who took it in his hand, examining it narrowly.

He gave me back, likewise, my silver plate, except the censer, and a small box for holding chrism, all of which were with the priest who attended Sartach; and he returned my books, except our ladys psalter, which he kept with my leave, as I could not deny him, for he said Sartach took great delight in it.

When we came nigh to his presence, we bore aloft a cross upon a pole, and began to sing Veni Creator, in a loud voice, while I carried the censer.

I immediately put incense into the censer; and the bishop, taking the censer into his own hands, perfumed the khan, and gave him his benediction.

I immediately put incense into the censer; and the bishop, taking the censer into his own hands, perfumed the khan, and gave him his benediction.

And vpon a certaine time when he was cumming towardes Cambaleth, the fame of his approch being published, a bishop of ours with certaine of our minorite friers and my selfe went two dayes iourney to meet him: and being come nigh vnto him, we put a crosse vpon wood, I my selfe hauing a censer in my hand, and began to sing with a loud voice: Veni creator spiritus.

And immediatly I put incense into the censer, and our bishop taking the censer perfumed him, and gaue him his benediction.

And immediatly I put incense into the censer, and our bishop taking the censer perfumed him, and gaue him his benediction.

relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax [Lat.], pyx, agnus Dei [Lat.], censer, thurible, patera^; eileton^, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal^, urceus^. ritualism, ceremonialism; sabbatism^, sabbatarianism^; ritualist, sabbatarian^. holyday, feast, fast.

That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer.

Fresh air is often better for the soul than the swinging of the priest's censer.

"And hath great Accad lost so many sons, And left so many maids unmarried ones?" He eyed the image where the goddess stood Upon a pedestal of cedar wood O'erlaid with gold and pearls and uk-ni stones, And near it stands the altar with its cones Of gold adorned with gems and solid pearls, And from the golden censer incense curls.

The odor of the velvety weed of Shiraz meets my nostrils; a dark-eyed son of Pan places the narghileh at my feet; and, bubbling more sweetly than the streams of Jordan, the incense most dear to the god dims the crystal censer, and floats from my lips in rhythmic ejaculations.

Meantime the music soars, the organ groans, the censer clicks, steams of incense float to and fro.

There, brandishing our frying-pan as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the devil and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect.

Handsome lads of sixteen were chosen for acolytes, the torch-bearers were selected from the smallest boys, the office of censer was filled by John Norton, and he was also the chief sacristan, and had charge of the altar plate and linen and the vestments.

CHENEY, KATHERINE BELL, comp. Swinging the censer.

SEE Bell Katharine M. CHENEY, STUART B. R. Swinging the censer.

Twenty poor women, two Englishmen, four ragged beggars, cowering on the steps; and there was the priest at the altar, in a great robe of gold and damask, two little boys in white surplices serving him, holding his robe as he rose and bowed, and the money-gatherer swinging his censer, and filling the little chapel with smoke.

The earth is all one censer, and myriads of frogs are making the haze ring.

Now it is still and mute here: the old men in their monastic dresses have passed into their graves; the blooming boys that swung the censer are in their graves; the congregationmany generationsall in their graves; but the church still stands the same.

THURIBLE, a censer suspended by chains and held in the hand by a priest during mass and other offices of the Romish Church.

My court I hold with singing, Each bird a gay ambassador, Each flower a censer, swinging; And every little roadside thing A wonder to confound a king.

censor 351 occurrences

The power of the senate was also crippled by the law of Gracchus in which he transferred to the tribunes the burden of improving the roads of Italy, contracts for which had hitherto been awarded by the censor under the approval of the senate.

He was also made censor.

There is a strong feeling that the Censor should prohibit publication of these glaring cases of hardship on the ground that they are likely to encourage the Germans to prolong the War.

" In order to apprehend clearly the method and aims concealed beneath the "afterthoughts," readers must bear in mind that every attempt to protest against the annexation of Belgium by Germany is prohibited by the German censor.

The power of the censor makes it exceedingly difficult, or even impossible, to ventilate this matter.

From that finding he developed the concept of repression, i.e., the relegation of a painful experience into the unconscious, and kept imprisoned there by the censor.

"Why, no, Mr. Siner," she hastened on, in her careful grammar, "I just ran over to" "To fling herse'f in a nigger's face 'cause he's been North and got made a fool uv," boomed the hidden censor.

Nevertheless Rome contrived to do with it until nearly a century had elapsed; at last, in 159 B.C., a dial calculated on the latitude of Rome was placed by the side of it by the censor Q. Marcius Philippus.

See Porta Carmentalis Castella Castor, temple of Catiline Cato major Cato minor Catullus Catulus the elder Cena Censor, the Censoria locatio Ceres Ceriales, Ludi.

It is put into the mouth of Cato the Censor, who had died about a century before, and who is introduced as giving a kind of lecture on the subject to his young friends Scipio and Laelius, in his eighty-fourth year.

The old Censor lays down some maxims which, like the preceding, have served as texts for a good many modern writers, and may be found expanded, diluted, or strengthened, in the essays of Addison and Johnson, and in many of their followers of less repute.

Some undergraduates were making a disturbance, and the Junior Censor "made his appearance in person upon the scene of riot," and "was contumeliously handled."

Here the only statement of any real importance, the alleged assault by Christ Church men on the Junior Censor, is untrue.

The fact is that nearly all the disturbers were out-College men, and, though it is true that the Censor was struck by a stone thrown from a window, the unenviable distinction of having thrown it belongs to no member of the House.

Her father was for fifteen years the Censor of the unattached members of the University of Oxford, so that Mr. Dodgson had plenty of opportunities of photographing his little friend, and it is only fair to him to say that he did not neglect them.

These, I say, should be stamped and blackened out of every newspaper with the thickest black of the Russian censor.

"At length, however," says Bassompierre, whose own more than questionable morality did not permit him to enact the censor upon his sovereign, "as he was the best husband in the world, he finished by giving his consent, and delayed his departure until she should have made her public entry into the capital."

His mission was that of censor of the public taste.

1912. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA" A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES A POET IN PRISON DEATH'S DUEL GERARD'S HERBAL PHARAMOND A VOLUME OF OLD PLAYS A CENSOR OF POETS THE ROMANCE OF A DICTIONARY LADY WINCHILSEA'S POEMS AMASIA LOVE AND

A CENSOR OF POETS The Lives of The Most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II.

Most critical reputations have struck on the reef of some poet or novelist whom the great censor, in his proud old age, has thought he might disdain with impunity.

It was astonishing what a lot of humour passed through this central registry from men who were having a tragic time for England's sake; but sometimes the military Censor had to blow his nose with violence because Private Atkins lapsed into pathos, and wrote of tragedy with a too poignant truth.

Cato, the Censor, on farming.

The censor marches on.

By chanceyou could not have planned it, since the time it takes a letter to reach me depends on how interesting the censor finds it your celebration of that event reached me on its anniversary.

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