556 examples of font in sentences

Cause N. cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner^, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author &c (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation &c (support) 215. spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo

The babies are christened at the same font, the parents visit the same churches.

Diego Cam arrived safely in Portugal with Caçuta; who was soon afterwards baptized by the name of John Silva, the king and queen of Portugal doing him the honour of attending on him as sponsors at the holy font; and the splendid ceremonial was closed by the baptism of his sable attendants.

Piero made light of this chargehe was well used to that sort of thing, but, with rare effrontery, he held the infant at the font, whilst Panciatichi absented himself, and Eleanora made a tacit avowal of his parentage.

"Fancy the dame Mirabeau sailing stately towards the church font; another dame striking in to take precedence of her; the dame Mirabeau despatching this latter with a box on the ear, and these words, 'Here, as in the army, THE BAGGAGE goes last!'" Let those who justify the negro-pew arrangement, throw a stone at this proud womanif they dare.]

Les Paskagoulas et les Billoxis n'enterent point leur Chef, lorsqu'il est décédé; mais-ils font sécher son cadavre au feu et à la fumée de façon qu'ils en font un vrai squelette.

Les Paskagoulas et les Billoxis n'enterent point leur Chef, lorsqu'il est décédé; mais-ils font sécher son cadavre au feu et à la fumée de façon qu'ils en font un vrai squelette.

Ces sortes de funérailles ne se font que dans leur village.

31.Launching the Burial Cradle.] Il est vrai qu'il y en a qui font festin des cadavres de leurs parens; mais il est faux qu'elles les mettent à mort dans leur vieillesse, pour avoir le plaisir de se nourrir de leur chair, et d'en faire un repas.

190 Let Conscience, which is Interest ill disguised, In the same font be cleansed, and all the land baptized.

Thus, "the south alley for usurye, and poperye; the north for simony and the horse fair; in the middest for all kinds of bargains, meetings, brawlings, murthers, conspiracies; and the font for ordinary paiements of money, are so well knowne to all menne as the beggar knows his dishe.

There is a south porch, a rich font, the tomb of an ecclesiastic, and the assemblage of niches before described.

Nay, here's a harder imposition, Which is indeed the court's petition, That setting worldly pomp aside, Which poet has at font denied, You would be pleased in humble way To write a trifle call'd a play.

The church of Chalfont St. Giles has a Norman font, and there are other traces of Norman work in the bases of the pillars and elsewhere.

Had Crinkett showed himself at Chesterton, neither Mrs. Bolton nor Daniel Bolton would have been standing then at the font.

All this was passing through his mind as he was standing by the font.

Less than half-a-dozen yards from it, at the other side of the way leading up the church, stood the font, so that the stranger was almost close to Caldigate when he turned.

As the party at the font was broken up, the eyes of them all were fixed upon the two strangers.

As the little crowd prepared to move from the font, the two men got up and stood in their places.

They had all met together to talk things over in the old castle of Font-Ségugne, or, as Mistral more picturesquely puts it: "It was written in heaven that one blossoming Sunday, the twenty-first of May, 1854, in the full springtide of life and of the year, seven poets should come to meet together in the castle of Font-Ségugne."

They had all met together to talk things over in the old castle of Font-Ségugne, or, as Mistral more picturesquely puts it: "It was written in heaven that one blossoming Sunday, the twenty-first of May, 1854, in the full springtide of life and of the year, seven poets should come to meet together in the castle of Font-Ségugne."

The notary used to point out this rough, sacred stone inlaid in a baptismal font of Holy Water.

He it was who had given him at the baptismal font the name which had awakened so much admiration and ridicule among his school companions; with the patience of an old grand-sire narrating saintly stories to his descendants, he would tell Ulysses over and over the adventures of the navigating King of Ithaca for whom he had been named.

The baptismal font.

LA FONT, RENEE.

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