It is a lacy envelope enshrining an idea, the idea of light, a shelter of cobweb interposed between earth and sky, struck through and through with light—light which shall partly consume the forms and make of it a thing of faery.
Long have I worshiped in my soul's enshrining High visions of the noble and the true-- Now all my aims and all my prayers are purer, Because of you.
She, raising herself in her chair, her beautiful head and shoulders lifted statue-like from her enshrining draperies of azure and white, stretched forth a hand and beckoned Gloria towards her.
Rather the language of Cogitosus clearly shows that he must have written before thisenshrining of the relics of Conlaeth, for in his time the body of that saint was in a tomb.
This seems to be an accurate and truthful narrative of what really happened, and shows that the enshrining took place afterwards in his own church of Cork.
But Cogitosus speaks of the bodies of the saints as being placed in tombs, not of the enshrining of the relics of one of them, which is a very different thing.
What is this magical arrangement of words enshrining what ideas and emotions that gives us a zest for life, that makes us drunk with aesthetic pleasure?
A "poem" even to-day is supposed to be a literary composition that is in artificial language arranged in a metrical pattern, often conveying a trite idea or enshrining an ineffective image.
The practice of enshrining them in cumdachs, or book-covers, points to a like conclusion.
Arts and sciences were studied there, and thousands of verses enshrining the teachings of Druidism were committed to memory.
His nostrils caught its unaired closeness, his ears the heavy stillness of a place enshrining sleep.
The papers said the leading role did not show Miss Lopez off to the greatest advantage and the audiences thinned, for Miss Lopez had transformed the Albion from a house of light opera to a temple enshrining a star.
His name stands in the Belgi martyrologies, though no other act of public veneration has been paid to his memory, than the enshrining of his relics, which are carried in processions.
From the time of this enshrining of his remains, he is honored among the saints in many churches in Germany and the Low Countries, as Goujet (De Festis propriis Sanctor.
An allied form is the villancico, or conceit, usually of three or four lines, a fugitive piece, enshrining some fleeting emotion, and often packed with the matter of poesy.
This version, however, is much later than the Poema, and is chiefly interesting as enshrining many traditions relative to the Cid as well as to the ancient folk-tales of Spain.
Who could tell that, on any other subject, the plainest and most direct statement of fact was not equally a fancy, only embodying or enshrining (under the guise of its errors) some real Divine facts?
Domenico, a smaller edifice, enshriningthe remains of its patron saint.
The small chapel enshrining them becomes holy ground even to the Protestant gazer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enshrining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
