Euro The priest descended to the recess with little rock columns, and laid the cradle on one of the two altars within.
The name of almost everybody on the continent is cut somewhere in the South; Virginia has more than enough names carved over her fireside altars to inscribe upon all her multitudinous graves.
For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set upaltars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
Worshippers again began openly to frequent the high places; they set up again the prostrate idols, replanted the sacred groves, and even "built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jahveh.
In Octavum very many were killed, many were beheaded and their bodies, even to the present day, can be counted by the white altarsor tables.
Altars consecrated to God do no harm, and when neglected they render no help.
There are altars in all the temples, and an altar also in the Temple of Victory.
But, says he, let the ancient altars be restored to their images, and their ornaments to the shrines.
Tombs built in the shape of altars which were table-shaped.
But those of you who regard this rite, approach the public altars and shrines and celebrate the solemnities of your custom; for we do not indeed prohibit the duties of the old usage to be performed in broad daylight.
I was astounded at the opulence of the treasure; there were gorgeous altars of precious metal, great saints of silver, caskets of gold, monstrances studded with rare stones, crosses and crucifixes.
The choir-stalls are of carved wood, florid and exuberant like the Spanish imagination; the altars gleam with gold; pictures of saints are framed by golden pillars carved with huge bunches of grapes and fruit and fantastic leaves.
The figure of the cross represents two pieces of wood which were laid crosswise upon one another before the sacrificial altars in order to produce holy fire.
Building an idol altar in the Temple, he offered swine on it, and he compelled many of the Jews to raise idol altars in every town and village, and to offer swine on them every day.
The judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust in the celebrated 'Stone Altar Case,' by which wooden altars only were permitted, was a severe discouragement to the Tractarian party, being felt to interfere with the idea of sacrifice.
I have comforted others with the same topic you mention, that wooden tables are altars by virtue of ye sacrifice, and so that this decision really alters nothing.
As he resumed his walk, he wondered whose altars would be enriched by the offerings.
Their discontent, if they were discontented, was with the number of gods; for, after borrowing all the divinities of the earth they proceeded to deify their Caesars, and vote them altars and holy service.
Caesar, who was as just as he was wise--be there flowers upon his altars forever!
If, however, ye have offerings for any of the altars to-day, pray the gods for a friend plying oar and sail somewhere in the direction of Sicily.
Italian Gothic art found freer expression in semi-decorative works, like tombs, altars and votive chapels, than in more monumental structures.
I have not ceased offering pure sacrifices; From the border altars I have gone to the ancestral temple [2].
By 'the border altars' we are to understand thealtars in the suburbs of the capital, where Heaven and Earth were sacrificed to -the great services at the solstices, and any other seasons.
The Preface says that this ode was used in spring, when the king in person turned up some furrows in the field set apart for that purpose, and prayed at the altars of the spirits of the land and the grain, for an abundant year.
Sir Thomas Tresham, who also was beheaded at the same time, was buried before a pillar between the altars of St. James and St. Nicholas.
This theory of the two altars in this chapel would account for much of the confusion in the naming of the chapel by subsequent writers.
They also worked the hangings for the hall and chapel, and adorned the altars and the priests' vestments.
Three or four temporary altars were erected in the empty space, adorned by tall unlighted candles.
On Christmas-day our travellers arrived at Sioot, and found there a Catholic church served by the Franciscan mission, which is under the special protection of the Emperor of Austria, who has sent some very good pictures for the altars there.
These obo are the Lamaite sacred signs set up at dangerous places, the altars to the bad demons, rulers of these places.
Fire appears on the altar, gradually spreading to all the altars near, and through the burning flame gradually appears the face of God.
Those are the obo, the sacred signs and altars for the bad demons watching this pass," explained the guide.
Now there are no more masses; and the chapels are empty and silent, their altars are removed, the paintings are defaced, and the Church is given over for worldly things.
No congregation could hear without emotion that the Popish marauders had made desolate the habitations of quiet and humble peasants, had outraged the altars of God, had torn to pieces the Gospels and the Communion service.
That Ulster was lost, that the English were coming, that the death grapple between the two hostile nations was at hand, was proclaimed from all the altars of three and twenty counties.
It is obvious, however, that one great object of the poem, the destruction of the altars of idolatry, had failed; for it is not pretended that the supposed descendants of Madoc remained Christians.
When it destroys convents and altars he flatters it (though he acknowledges sometimes a certain ease in finding the matter thus settled for him) with no better a title.
Altars are erected for the various deities and on these the celebrant places with music, chant and dance their respective insignia, all present making obeisance.
O'er thee undimmed the moon-girt planets shine, On thy majestic altars fade the fires That filled the air with smoke of vain desires, And all the unclouded blue of heaven is thine!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "altars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
