Icons or hieroglyphics can convey the instructions just as well, even better, than literacy can.
The international depiction of a valentine-shaped heart to represent the word love is one example in this sense; the iconsused in Europe on clothing care labels are others.
In the city priests bearing the sacred icons went through the streets.
It was in this church that many of the icons were preserved during the first fury of iconoclasm: in the monastery, Isaac Comnenus and Michael VII.
For one word is the tale of men: They fling their icons to the sod, And having trampled down a god They seek a god again!
And every race that lives and dies shall make itself some other gods, Shall build, with mingled truth and lies, new icons from the world-old clods.
The six Simeons bowed to the Tsar very low, prayed to the holyicons and went.
The merchant guests appeared, prayed to the holy icons hanging in the corner, bowed to the Tsar, bowed to the wise advisers.
Every one who enters the house at once bows and utters a prayer before the icons before he does anything else.
In a corner under the icons of the saints, on a table covered with a gold-bordered, velvet cloth, lay the body of the girl.
A whirlwind arose in the church; the icons of the saints fell on the ground, together with the broken window-panes.
The lofty icons seemed to be of considerable age; only a little of the original gilt remained on their broken traceries; the faces of the saints had become quite black and looked uncanny.
The Rikka arrangement is an appropriate offering to be placed before one of the manyicons of traditional Buddhism, but the Nageire arrangement is a direct link between man and his natural surroundings.
Like the early Japanese, the followers of Zen believed the world around them was the only manifestation of god and did not bother with sacred icons or idols, preferring to draw religious symbolism directly from the world as it stood.
In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles.
He tried to say something, but his face suddenly puckered and wrinkled; he waved his arm at Toll and turned to the opposite side of the room, to the corner darkened by the icons that hung there.
Or, turning to Mademoiselle Bourienne, he would ask her in Princess Mary's presence how she liked our village priests and icons and would joke about them.
Some said that no one was to be allowed to leave the city, others on the contrary said that all the icons had been taken out of the churches and everybody was to be ordered to leave.
Natasha was sitting on the bed, pale and dry eyed, and was gazing at the icons and whispering something as she rapidly crossed herself.
The countess went into the oratory and there Sonya found her on her knees before the icons that had been left here and there hanging on the wall.
Then she shook her head and glanced up at theicons with a sigh.
Natasha, pale, with a fixed look, was sitting on the bench under the icons just where she had sat down on arriving and paid no attention to her father's words.
The small lamp in front of the icons was the only light left in the room.
The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door with her knitting.
It is a sombre cavern lined with antique tiles of a dim blue-green, which are hidden under the icons of gold and precious stone attached to the walls, and under the profusion of gold and silver lamps hanging from the low roof.
My theory says that there are facilities associated to image and to symbolic models (there are arts and sciences, watches are analog or digital, on computer screens we have icons and text etc.
The Asiatic populations, who have used the method of description of image models in writing, remained stuck in icons associated to image models from their minds.
A priest wears a cross; a spire is crowned by a cross; but this symbol of our salvation is rarely seen among the painted and plated icons in a private house.
Though waging war against icons and crosses, on which he stamps and frowns in his secret rites, he ostentatiously hangs a silver icon in his chamber, and wears a copper cross suspended from his neck.
By the eight century the veneration of pictures or icons had become wide-spread throughout the Eastern Church.
In Italy, although the use of icons was not developed to the same extent as in the East, sympathy was entirely against the Iconoclasts.
In respect to their religious significance icons are of two classes, simple or miracle-working.
He frowned, and having shaken the snow off his cap and coat, stopped in front of the icons as if not seeing anyone, crossed himself three times, and bowed to the icons.
He died at home as he had wished, only this year, under the icons with a lighted taper in his hands.
As though she feared insulting the sanctity of the icons she put out the candles and went into the next room.
Dawn broadened into day, and the austere countenances of the icons seemed to be bent fixedly on poor Helene as she lay, deprived of strength.
The four icons lay on the table before him, with three lighted candles at the inner comers, and he blessed water and sprinkled them, and then he sprinkled everybody in the room.
The icons were fixed up in the corner of the wards, and I bought little lamps to burn in front of them, as they always have them.
I am so glad we thought of putting up the icons for them.
In vain you endeavour to explain to him that saints and Icons are not essential parts of Christianity, and that habits of intoxication have no religious significance.
The wonder-working Icons are comparatively few in number, and are always carefully preserved in a church or chapel.
At first, in some districts, it was popularly believed that theIcons informed the Russian priests against those who did not fast as the Church prescribed; but experience gradually exploded this theory.
On the eve of fete-days a small lamp is kept burning before at least one of the Icons in the house.
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.
Besides the icons and holy pictures on the screen (and in the Cathedral of the Assumption the latter contains the most highly venerated in Russia) other smaller iconsare set apart in various parts of the church.
Numerous manufactories produce icons painted on wood or copper, ornamented with reliefs of copper, crysocale, silver, silver-gilt and gold.
On some old icons our Lord is represented as giving the holy communion to the apostles out of narrow-necked vessels which appear to be made of alabaster.
He issued a decree against the reverence paid to icons (religious images and pictures), and, in 729, replaced the patriarch S.
He defined the "worship" of the iconsas all based upon the worship of Christ, and attacked iconoclasm as involving ultimately an assault upon the doctrine of the Incarnation.
This Council decreed that icons should be used and receive veneration (proskuêsis) as did the Cross and the book of the Gospels.
From earliest times the icons have been used not only to give internal dignity and beauty to every Christian church and house, but, which is much more essential, for the instruction and moral education of Christians.
Behind the iconastasis the priest and the Patrol-officer took their stand, surrounded by gilded icons and consecrated candles.
Though this teaching repudiated all ceremonies, icons, and sacraments, Katerina Ivanovna had icons in every room, and one on the wall above her bed, and she kept all that the Church prescribed without noticing any contradiction in that.
She used to sew, tidy up the rooms, polish the metal cases of the icons and do other light work, and sometimes she sat and read to the ladies.
We can't have icons yet, with the Protector not wanting to be identified, but we should be able to manage something with symbols.
About the wall there were the icons which the Russians worship, and the organ which we had heard played stood in the western gallery just above the main doors.
Nay, there were traces of their recent occupation--rude beds just disturbed; a faint fire in a primitive kitchen; the very candles lighted before the icons or images in their chapel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
