I crawled up the ladder, still holding the crucifix, for it was the only thing in the form of a weapon I possessed, and the manner in which I gripped it improvised it into a hilted dagger, although I remember keeping it more for evidence against Meeker than for any other purpose.

[Draws a crucifix.

A little beyond it, on the wall, hung a crucifix.

He then laid aside the crucifix, but insisted on entering the fire with the sacrament in his hand.

" "A most mysterious affairmost mysterious," agreed Meeker, shaking his head and fingering his shell crucifix.

He took his crucifix, his purse containing a sum of money, and some papers, out of his pocket, and asked that they should be given to his family.

In the fifth chapel of the left aisle is a Magdalen carved in wood by Desiderio da Settignano and finished by Benedetto da Maiano; while S. Trinità now possesses, but shows only on Good Friday, the very crucifix from S. Miniato which bowed down and blessed S. Gualberto.

"Let me see the man or woman who will touch that crucifix, though it had on it the woman o' Babylon herself!"

"Some of the crew were swearing from morning till night, some singing abominable songs, some kissing the crucifix and making vows to the saints.

He stooped and picked up a little silver crucifix.

In the chapel at the end we find Donatello's wooden crucifix which led to that friendly rivalry on the part of Brunelleschi, the story of which is one of the best in all Vasari.

At regular intervals of about half a mile, we saw wooden crucifixes erected by the way-side, covered from the weather with little sheds, bearing the image of the Savior, crowned with thorns and frightfully dashed with streaks and drops of red paint, to represent the blood that flowed from his wounds.

"Unique Master Michelangelo, and my most singular friend,I have received your letter, and examined the crucifix, which truly hath crucified in my memory every other picture I ever saw.

She had opened the bosom of the poor boy's shirt, and untying the ribbon that fastened a small gold crucifix round his neck, she placed it in his cold hand.

Donatello, having finished this wooden crucifix, and being unusually satisfied with it, asked Brunelleschi's opinion, confidently expecting praise.

Meeker returned his gaze in a disinterested manner, swaying in his chair with the motion of the ship, and fumbling his shell crucifix, as if it was a talisman to guard him against danger.

They gave the crucifix, which covered up all sins; they permitted their converts to retain their ancient habits and customs.

He broke the gold chain round his neck, and grasped the crucifix which he carried in one hand, while with the other he raised the lady's head, praying her to open her eyes, before whose closed lids he held the sacred image; and he, who had come so near to great sin, now prayed softly, but fervently, for her life and God's pity on her, for the frailty her slight form showed could not withstand the shock of this trial.

Legend says that he was the son of a nobleman of Aquitaine, and a keen hunter; and that once when he was engaged in the chase on Good Friday, in the forest of Ardennes, a stag appeared to him having a shining crucifix between its antlers.

On all her altars she keeps the crucifix.

At his request, I consecrated some holy water, which he mingled with the rhubarb, and left his crucifix all night in the mixture.

Then lifting on high a crucifix, he said,"Come with me, and let us walk in solemn procession to the altar, singing the praises of our God.

In the scuffle I had lost the crucifix, but I had also escaped from the man who had grabbed me, and, while I was in a panic and did not know where I was going, I hoped to be able to regain the ladder on the port side and get back to my room once I had thrown my assailant off my track.

He sent to a Catholic bookstore and obtained a small crucifix suspended from a string of beads.

Near the brow of a hill I passed a very ancient crucifix of granite, the head, which must originally have been of the rudest sculpture, having the features quite obliterated by time.