Nor can we see the significance of the fact that Khalid once smashed the icon of the Holy Virgin for whetting not his wits, for hearing not his prayers.
And when he runs away from the bastinado, breaking in revenge the icon of the Holy Virgin, his father turns him away from home.
They are generally placed high up in a corner of the living room facing the door, and every good Orthodox peasant on entering the door bows in the direction of the icon and crosses himself repeatedly.
Before and after meals the same ceremony is always performed and on holiday or fete days a small taper or candle is kept burning before the icon throughout the day.
After the usual ceremony of crossing himself before the icon the starosta announced that he had been overpaid about ninety roubles, which mistake he found after reaching his home and checking over the account again.
The style, also, of the Icon Basilice has been identified by Mr. Todd with that of Gauden, by the use of several phrases, so peculiar that we can hardly conceive them to have suggested themselves to more than one person.
There is only one claimant, in a proper sense, for the Icon Basilice, which is Gauden himself; the king neither appears by himself or representative.
Thus, in the controversy concerning the Icon Basilike, the admission of Gauden’s claim by Lord Clarendon is in the nature of a prerogative instance; it renders the supposition of the falsehood of that claim highly improbable.
At the head marched a girl bearing an icon of the Madonna, gaudily painted and bedecked with jewels.
A wonder-working icon was brought from St. Petersburg, where, according to tradition, it had performed many miracles.
Though waging war against icons and crosses, on which he stamps and frowns in his secret rites, he ostentatiously hangs a silvericon in his chamber, and wears a copper cross suspended from his neck.
Inside, it is a quaint little chapel, with screen and cross, with icon and crown.
But the walls were dirty and the Icon had no case.
Holy Virgin save me from this danger, and I swear to build a church to pray for the rest of my days, I will enshrine with silver the miracle-working Icon from the Neamtzu Monastery.
She had a beautiful Icon which had been given to her by the son of the priest at Vezura.
At present the Icon was lying at the bottom of a box wrapped up in paper.
For a long time she had wished to place it between the windows, to put flowers and sweet basil round it, and look at it often; because this Icon represented the Holy Virgin, and the priest's daughter was called Mary.
I looked carefully round all along the walls--not an Iconto be seen.
He stepped back from the window and looked at an icon of the Saviour in His crown of thorns.
Above the lectern was the little lamp and an icon of Christ in His crown of thorns.
Returning, he lit the lamp before the icon of the Virgin, and threw himself on his bed.
It had given Leonardo in his boyhood the first idea of Wings for Man; and now it was of interest to the young Russian, who in his spare time, for pleasure, was painting an ecclesiasticalicon of 'The Winged Precursor.
The Icon Animorum was Englished by Thomas May in 1631 (The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum).
A so-called "fourth part," with the title of Icon Animorum, appeared in 1614.
The troops of Branas assembled outside the walls and attacked, but were driven back from the gate of Charisius (Edirne Kapoussi): the famous icon of the Blessed Virgin, believed to have been painted by S.
Further south was the Church of the Theotokos Hodegetria, where originally the icon of the B.
At last the warder and the jailer left the cell, the women grew quieter and began going to bed, and the old woman went to the icon and commenced praying.
The gilt case containing the icon glittered, illuminated on all sides by tall candles ornamented with golden spirals.
Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.
It may be expected that we should here mention the Icon Basiliké, a work published in the king's name a few days after his execution.
The peasants of Talezh, Bershov, Doubechnia and Sholkovo presented me with four loaves, an icon and two silver salt-cellars.
At the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Troparion of Saint Gregory the Dialogist The truth of things revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, an Icon of meekness, and a teacher of abstinence.
The truth of things revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, an Icon of meekness and a teacher of abstinence.
Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform.
Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with an embossed metal cover.
Tomorrow after dinner I shall take the Iberian icon of the Mother of God to the wounded in the Catherine Hospital where we will have some water blessed.
This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country's weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty.
At last he rose, kissed the icon as a child does with naively pouting lips, and again bowed till he touched the ground with his hand.
Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off.
About the middle of the Arbat Street, near the Church of the Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas, Murat halted to await news from the advanced detachment as to the condition in which they had found the citadel, le Kremlin.
Well, he took that icon home with him for a few days and what did he do?
This was the icon that had been brought from Smolensk and had since accompanied the army.
The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the little goldicon Princess Mary had hung round her brother's neck, but seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to return the holy image.
She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.
His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other.
One of the oldest inhabitants was chosen as arbiter, and made to swear on the Scriptures that he would act honestly to the best of his knowledge; then taking an Icon in his hand, he walked along what he believed to be the old frontier.
Let me explain then, briefly, what an Icon is--a very necessary explanation, for the Icons play an important part in the religious observances of the Russian people.
Thus in the West the Icon grew slowly into the naturalistic portrait, and the rude symbolical groups developed gradually into highly-finished historical pictures.
Some of the more prudent converts, however, to prevent all possible tale-telling, took the precaution of turning the face of the Icon to the wall when prohibited meats were about to be eaten!
When the repast is finished, all rise together, and, turning towards the Icon in the corner, bow and cross themselves repeatedly.
Arrived at the house to which it has been invited, the Icon is carried through all the rooms, and in the principal apartment a short religious service is performed before it.
The introduction of the Iconis a modern innovation, which illustrates that curious blending of paganism and Christianity which is often to be met with in Russia, and of which I shall have more to say in another chapter.
If the recognition is granted, the Icon is treated with the greatest veneration, and is sure to be visited by pilgrims from far and near.
According to the order of the clergy, the elder of Yasnaya Polyana called a village meeting and ordered every one to go to church and meet the icon which was afterwards carried from house to house in all the households of the village.
The clergy who came carried theicon to the churches, in the parish of which stood Yasnaya Polyana.
Tis much there should be no Iconof Rallus or Ralla Aquatica I haue a draught of one & they are found among us Feb xii 1668.
Physsalus Rondeletij[89] or eruca marina physsaloides according to theicon of Rondeletius of very orient green & purple bristles.
A masterpiece of early Bulgarian art is the icon of Saint Theodor of Plateina near Preslav; it was made of colored faience in the tenth century.
Other forms of folk arts were woodcarving, highly colored embroidery, rug weaving, and icon painting.
My Dear Godfrey--You will laugh when you hear into what a practical blunder I was led, by a desire to gratify your curiosity concerning Maga's Icon in America.
A night-light burns softly before theicon as though intimidated by the constant sight of the saint's austere face, whose expression appears still more sombre in contrast with the silver ornaments of the frame in which it is set.
In one corner, a lamp burned before an icon in a gold frame.
She picked up the saint and reverently kissed his forehead, then held the icon out at arm's length to look at it.
She went to the table by the window, where the small iconstood between two candles in tall brass candlesticks.
She had painted it herself a few years before, copying another, larger icon that belonged to the Basileus Michael.
Rest well, dear saint, she prayed as she lowered the icon into the cedar chest.
How could it be that the icon she had painted could remind her of two such different men as Simon de Gobignon and David of Trebizond?
The king would not come into the scheme of consent; though they pressed him with a passage out of the Icon Basilike, where his father allowed of it.
It seems natural not to leave untouched in this place, the famous problem of the Icon Basilike, which has been deemed an irrefragable evidence both of the virtues and the talents of Charles.
In truth theIcon was to many fervent Royalists a supplementary revelation.
I suspect therefore that Icon Amlàk must have been the true hero of Marco's story, and that the date must be thrown back, probably to 1278.
This would fall within the reign of Icon AMLAK according to Bruce's chronology, but not according to Salt's, and à fortiori not according to any chronology throwing the reigns further back still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
