Which preposition to use with relic

of Occurrences 719%

And let this precious relic of female loveliness and worth, (taking a small picture, set in gold, from his bosom,) be buried with me.

in Occurrences 31%

America, Lamb relics in, 344, 357, 358, 362, 412.

from Occurrences 20%

"It's only a relic from some plundered settlement.

to Occurrences 11%

He increased his resources in a gentlemanly fashion by genealogical research, directed mostly toward the rehabilitation of ambiguous pedigrees; and for the rest, no other man could have fulfilled more gracefully the main duty of the Librarian, which was to exhibit the Association's collection of relics to hurried tourists "doing" Lichfield.

at Occurrences 6%

His cultus received great impulse from the discovery of his relics at Kaphar Gamala, on the shore of Lake Genesareth, and the wonderful miracles wrought by them, A basilica in his honour was erected, in Rome in the fourth century.

with Occurrences 5%

She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.

on Occurrences 2%

Possibly she reflected, with a shudder, as she laid the relic on the altar of the oratory of the palazzo Giustiniani, that the remembrance of the constant dangers of Santa Beata had incited the Lady Marina thus to peril her life.

than Occurrences 2%

Fair-haired and blue-eyed, with something feminine in every feature, it seemed preposterous that the original could ever make a young girl's heart ache as Ethelyn Grant's was aching that June morning, when, taking the small oval frame from the wall, she kissed it passionately, and then thrust it away into the bureau drawer, which held other relics than the oval frame.

by Occurrences 2%

It has been, indeed, sometimes the custom of the Roman Church to enhance the value of a gift of relics by adding to it the gift of the inscription on the grave from which they were taken.

as Occurrences 2%

Can any one read the pert modern Frenchify'd notes, &c., in Pope's translation, and contrast them with solemn weighty prefaces of Chapman, writing in full faith, as he evidently does, of the plenary inspiration of his authorworshipping his meanest scraps and relics as divinewithout one sceptical misgiving of their authenticity, and doubt which was the properest to expound Homer to their countrymen.

across Occurrences 1%

ARAN ISLANDS, three islands with antique relics across the mouth of Galway Bay, to which they form a breakwater.

beside Occurrences 1%

" The Cross of Victory was then produced, with many apologies and excuses for the mistake, and the oath was taken while Mary's tiny hand rested on the relic beside King Louis' browned and wrinkled talon.

among Occurrences 1%

It was formerly exclusively kept and exhibited in the cathedral; but it is now justly retained in the Town Hall, and treasured as the most precious relic among the archives of the city.

for Occurrences 1%

The Jesuits, some years afterward, solemnly gathered the remains of these three pretended martyrs, and exposed them as holy relics for public veneration.

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