A Habbas Dahdah would be much more more likely to feign an excessive admiration for the idol and glory of Italy.
The heart of Cagliostro quailed within him at the lamentations of the people of Samaria, as they beheld their idolsmitten down by death in the midst of his surpassing pomp.
It must be acknowledged that to the more observing of his limited kinsfolk and extensive acquaintance the clay feet of Pepin's idol were distinctly in evidence.
It is only when love is scorned, when passion takes its place, when man forgets that the idol of his heart is a probationer of earth like himself, that it is his duty to be chary of her soul, feeling that it is his jewel.
This is pure, deep sorrow at seeing his idol sullied, not mean frenzy at the idol's preferring another worshipper.
High-minded, enlightened, and honourable as he was, Prince Henry was the idol and hope of the English nation.
Ampho remained frozen, as if he were no more than a dumb idol himself.
Why would Sorpiala bring a broken idol to show them?
Why, one might as well try to make an idol of the wind itself, and did not God so breathe the very wind of life into the first man, the Patriarch Adam himself?
The old idol gods whom Si'Wren had known all her life would no doubt have strongly approved of Master Rababull's harsh decision.
How could anyone possibly make an idolof the Invisible God?
It was Sorpiala who had cleverly broken the idol earlier, and only blamed it on poor Nelatha.
Getting back to her basic belief that He was like water, she wrote further, begging the question; Who can make an idol to represent water?
But Si'Wren only regarded the idol in Nelatha's palm in open perplexity.
Their chief god is a stoneidol termed Nee-vougi, which has been preserved from time immemorial.
Arnold was the idol of the army, and I fear that his defection will create a great change of heart.
Hebrews at Modin to bow down to theiridol of stone.
Then, indeed, there was an idol in the Temple of the Lord, and holy sacrifice could not be offered in the appointed place, but the fierce storm of persecution had not arisen in all its terrors.
Judas and his companion regarded it with the aversion and horror with which the sight of an idol always inspired pious Jews.
The altar of Bacchus was thrown down with wild exultation; the idol was broken to pieces, and its fragments were rolled in the blood-stained dust.
Every trace of heathenism was eagerly destroyed in the streets, and the very children fiercely trampled under foot the fragments of idol or altar.
God will not hear prayers," thought Zarah, "from one in whose heart an idol is enshrined.
Louis XVIII, whom the conquerors had set on the throne, flew in panic when he heard that the man of destiny was swiftly nearing his palace to take his place again as the idol and chief of a great people.
He had a wholesome dislike of the French people and of Bonaparte, who was their idol at that time.
It may be seen from all points; its excessively Chinese outlines dominate Pekin, and high up on it stands a terrible idol whose threatening attitude and hideous smile look down upon the city.
This idol our soldiers call the "big devil of China.
In the papers of the Comte d'Antraigues was found a pen-portrait of Bonaparte as he appeared at Venice, and it will no doubt, with due allowances, stand for the few months later when he became the idol of Paris.
Fancy an Indian Idol squatted on the front seat of an up-to-date automobile.
Maachah, because she had made a miphletzeth to an Asherah ("an idol in a grove," A.
O with the male sacred Tau T; and thus identical in meaning with the coarse emblem seen by Captain Burton in the African idol temple.
Oh, when will China, the home of our adoption, be thus enlightened, and her idol temples turned into sanctuaries for the living God?
He told them that when burned before an idol with prayers of faith, the god was sure to answer petitions.
Seven days he spent in prayer before the idoland a cure was wrought.
But half the body of a Mumboo-jumbow idol leaves us utterly in the dark as to what the rest was like.
Then to think that he was forever to be haunted by this idle dream; to think that the shattered idol which he could no longer worship was to live with him to the end, to get up and lie down with him, and stand forever beside him!
An idol that he had worshipped seemed to be shattered--that was all.
Others glory in an opportunity of proving the powerlessness of the man-created idol to save the temple from ruin and desecration.
Now and then less important pieces come under the hammer, and it is by no means difficult to secure for a small outlay an excellent representative collection of these deeply interesting objects associated with idol worship.
We can well understand that the refined worker in metals spared no pains to make his idol or fetish beautiful and something to be admired.
There are some who hold it to be a wicked thing to loot the temple of a heathen deity, and regard it as sacrilege to ruthlessly tear down the idol from its shrine.
Then came the past of his first love-dream, when he worshipped at the feet of Nora Beresford, and, with the wholeheartedness of the true fanatic, clothed his idol with every imaginable attribute of virtue and tenderness.
When you encounter a genius as fine as thisidol of ours, let him off the dreary duty of being a personality as well.
On the eighteenth, Lamartine, the former idol of the Revolutionaries, was hooted down while making a conciliatory speech.
Perhaps their eagerness to see Gauguin safely embarked for Tahiti only concealed a growing boredom with their idol of yesterday.
