All I meant to say was that you must never take Ambo au pied de la lettre.
You could make it an interminable engagement, years and years of it, and break it off when Ambo was thoroughly discouraged or cured; you're clever enough for that.
Yes, I trust you like that, Phil; you and Ambo and Sister and Jimmy.
Suppose," I kept thinking, "suppose something should unexpectedly make it possible for Ambo to ask me to be his wife?
Perhaps if Ambo came to me now I should flame again; or perhaps I should only make believe for his sake.
The conversation that ought to have taken place between us might not unreasonably have run something like this: SUSAN: Ambo dear--what is the matter?
When I ran to Ambo last night I was pure rhythm and flame; but this morning I'm the hour before sunrise.
Phil and Ambo really are captains of their souls though, so far as things in general let them be.
Haven't I always told you and Ambo that Jimmy would be like this?
But I'm gladdest of all that you and Ambo are beginning at last to be friends.
You see, I know so intensely that you and Ambo are pure gold--incorruptible!
Ambo dear, I can explain that, but not without a long, unhappy confession.
The amboor pulpit stands outside the screen on four columns, approached by steep steps from within; an octagonal column of coloured marble supports a slab for a book-rest, facing eastwards at the foot of the steps.
Dominic, and near the ambo figures of the four Evangelists; the last apparently of the period of the foundation of the church, the ninth or early tenth century.
There are many striking fragments of architectural carving, among which one of the most interesting is a balustrade bearing close resemblance to the carving upon an ambo at S.
The ambo in the right aisle, made up of columns and carved slabs of the sixth century, is due to him, as are the chapels to right and left of the nave.
At each side is an amboof stone supported on four columns, but with an octagonal body above, arcaded, with shafts at the angles.
There is a fine early Renaissance choir-screen with an ambo at each side, made of the red variegated marble of the island; an angel of white marble supports the book-rest.
The beautiful ambo is one of its most attractive features.
The pulpit itself is supported on twelve granite columns, while the four supports of the opposite ambo are the very rare black porphyry called Porfido Nero-Bianco.
Before the Gospel ambo is a fine mosaic candelabrum standing on a Roman cippus reversed, having an olive branch and birds sculptured on it.
Non impar Paulus huic, doctor gentium, Electionis templum sacratissimum, In morte compar, in corona particeps, Ambo lucernae et decus ecclesiae In orbe claro coruscant vibramine.
Ambo told the parents of the young woman that he would restore her to life if they would pay him a reasonable sum of money.
When each had received his share, Iloy and Ambo were discontented because their portions were useless, so they threw them away; but Suan picked up the shares of his two brothers and united them with his own.
As they gladly agreed, Ambo opened his book, and the dead lady was brought back to life.
Ambo was paid all the money he asked; but as soon as he had received his reward, Iloy placed his mat on the ground, and told his two brothers to hold the young woman and step on the mat.
Without questioning her further, Ambo at once bought the book.
Ambo said, "I am the one who should have her, for it was I who restored her to life.
In larger churches, however, the ambowas often brought forward into the nave.
Our chancel had its origin late in the Middle Ages by a separate preaching Ambo being erected beside the lectern, and raised aloft in order that the preacher might be better seen and heard.
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In the gospel ambo in the cathedral of Ravello (1272), and also in that of the convent of the Trinita della Cava near Salerno, the spiral columns inlaid with mosaic stand on the backs of lions.
In the epistle ambo at Salerno and the gospel ambones at Cava and San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, the columns support segmental arches carrying the ambones; the epistle ambo at Ravello and all those in Rome are raised on solid marble bases.
Cathedrals the bishop has an ambo in the centre of the church.
The gospel and epistle are still read from the ambo in the Ambrosian rite at Milan.
The position of the ambo was not absolutely uniform; sometimes in the central point between the sanctuary and the nave, sometimes in the middle of the church, and sometimes at one or both of the sides of the chancel.
The ambo of St. Sophia was a very massive and stately structure of rich and costly material and of most elaborate workmanship; it was crowned by a canopy or baldachin, surmounted by a solid golden cross a hundred pounds in weight.
Beside its sacred uses, the ambo of St. Sophia was {653} the scene of many a striking incident in Byzantine history.
In the ordinary native the skin on the loins is smooth and tight, and the anatomy of the body is clearly discernible; but the Ahgai-ambo man had several folds of thick skin or muscle across the loins, which concealed the outline of his frame.
The Ahgai-ambo have for a period that extends beyond native traditions lived in this swamp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ambo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; bench; board; buffet; counter; desk; pulpit; rostrum; stand; table; workbench
