As they entered the pavilion of the Spanish general the air was filled with clouds of incense which rose from censers carried by some attendants.
Cortes during his march to the capital was on more than one occasion met by a deputation of nobles, bearing censers which they swung before him as a mark of courtesy.
The ashes were then emptied from the censers into an immense brazier, called the tlexictli, or 'fire-navel.
The crosses and the censers were put back upon their altars, and hung up upon their pillars.
Now some use censersof clay, others employ censers of rare white earth finely carved and decked with silver and gold.
Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified 16:38.
They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: 4:8.
Mid stillness vaster than the tomb, Made equal with the ghouls who lurk On battlements where witches ease Their minds as rubic censers fume, A Fiend bubbles in ruddy bloom As turgid dyes the night-dwales shirk.
Affrighted at this fearful gaze As coals blaze like twinkling jewels, Night-hawks that croak at bat-faced owls Gledge at each gnome that digged a bone From some bleak pool, and pierce the haze Where censers blaze.
Immingled dreams their senses storm As Westward shadows cloak each lee; Where censers blaze they drag their limbs, These cursed, forsaken whelps of hell!
Place these perfumes in the censers that the ladies-in-waiting will only have to light them.
No sooner had she obeyed, than the tapers on a small altar were lighted--as the censers before had been--without any visible agency.
A great company of acolytes, richly clad and swinging censers of pure silver, went in advance of the Virgin, and three bands of music followed her with continuous acclaim, while a regiment of soldiers attended as a guard of honor.
The second pageant presented by this brotherhood was accompanied by bevies of white-robed boys swingingcensers and chanting anthems.
The cherubim drooped and the pomegranates lay In the dust with the lamps that had glimmered all day; The censers and altar the ashes must claim, Though their unalloyed gold be the gold of Parvaim.
Chronicles, 4:20: "Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps and the censers were of gold.
Although there were no altars, yet with censers and incense one of the highest rites of worship might be observed.
Whatever that strange fire was which they put in their censers and used before the Lord, the judgment that befell them was signal and impressive.
May it not further be the case that the rebellion partly took form and ripened because an order had been given withdrawing the use of censers from the headmen of the tribes?
The two hundred and fifty are called by Moses to bring their censers and the incense and fire they have been using, that Jehovah may signify whether He chooses to be served by them as priests, or by Aaron.
But the two hundred and fifty consumed by the fire are not said to have been swallowed by the cleaving earth; their censers are taken up "out of the burning," as devoted or sacred, and beaten into plates for a covering of the altar.
It is singular that not a word is said in special condemnation of the two hundred and fifty because they were in possession of censers and incense.
The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit A Broadside distributed in Springfield, Illinois Censers are swinging Over the town; Censers are swinging, Look overhead!
Censers are swinging Over the town, Censers gigantic!
The plague had already begun; and before he could possibly get the censers and incense among the people, fourteen thousand and seven hundred had died of the plague.
So Moses told them to have two hundred and fifty of their men bring their censers and put incense in them before the Lord, and stand in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 235 with Moses and Aaron.
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
But the ring of it and the swing of it will suggest itself in a few verses: "Censers are swinging Over the town; Censers are swinging, Look overhead!
There is none of that swinging of golden censers by white-robed angels, none of the pure glad colouring of spring flowers which makes us love the Paradise of Fra Angelico.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "censers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
