Before an ikon with flowers upon the altar and in the presence of the Lady-Superior, he exorcised their sins according to his prescribed rite.
The walls of the room were decorated with disgusting pictures of a nature which would shock the modesty of all but the demi-monde, while behind the monk Novikh hung a copy of the Holy Ikon of Novgorod.
Black virgins are not unknown--the result of time upon impure pigments; those with three small scratches on the face are copies of the Iberian Mother of God, a twelfth century ikon of the Virgin.
With the private ikon "they do as they will, decorating the ikon one day and with the same tawdry themselves the next," an indication that the ignorant peasant may treat his ikon much as the West African negroes treat their fetiches.
If it is the practice to decorate the ikon with presented jewels, it was not only counted a sin but a crime to take any back again.
Another ikon in request is that kept at the Vladimirski Vorot; all have great homage paid them.
The most celebrated now existing there are: the trimorphic paper ikon of the Holy Trinity, that of St Nicholas the wonder-worker, and that of St Anastasia.
The warriors who had laid ruthless hands on the hallowed sanctuaries of the Russian capital were not likely to be cowed by a provincial representation of the Virgin; had they not their own apostle-wrought ikon of the Mother of God at Vladimir?
He found the gates still locked, but there was a lamp before the ikon in Savili's room, and he ordered him to let him out and to leave the gates unlocked.
Then it is instilled into the child as it is brought up that at the sight of any church or ikon he must repeat the same action--i.
Now, Kleopatra, mind; as soon as they begin talking of their feelings, take down the ikon from the wall and we'll go in and bless them.
An image case containing an ikon handed down as a family heirloom and a burning ikon lamp were suspended in the eastern corner of the room.
Yudushka took the money, praised the peasant, and said he would donate the three silver rubles for oil to burn forever before an ikon in the church.
Yudushka spat and looked at the ikon in the corner, as if seeking its protection from the Evil One.
Then she came to, sighed, and went into the ikon room.
She retained only two rooms, in one of which a large ikon case with images was stowed away.
The air was close and fetid, unbearably suffocating from the overheated stoves, the sickening smell of the ikon lamps, and the breath of illness.
Only a few, miserly rays of light sifted through the lowered shades and the dim light of the lamp burning before the ikon in the corner made the dusk filling the room seem all the darker and gloomier.
The ikon lamp burned in front of an image, and the light gave the objects in the room a kind of elusiveness, as if they were not actual things, but only the contours of things.
For a while Porfiry Vladimirych paced back and forth in the room, stopped before the lighted ikon of the Saviour with a thorny crown, and scanned his face.
So he knelt before the ikon and for fully fifteen minutes murmured prayers, his hands uplifted.
Porfiry Vladimirych accompanied his gift with the following speech: "This money will be handy in case you need oil for the ikon lamp or if you want to set up a candle in the church.
It's light during the day, and at night I have ikon lamps burning in every room.
Ceasing, he lifted an ikon before the young soldier's dimming eyes, and pronounced what must have been a benediction.
The ikon is to the Russian who is a Greek Catholic what the crucifix is to the Roman Catholic.
The ikon was there, treasured to the last; but the heart no longer beat.
The peasant-soldier gripped his breast, where the ikon lay, and, taking his course as well as he could from the direction of the wind, staggered on.
He took his ikonfrom his breast, kissed it, and bent his head over it a moment.
The next morning Anna got up early, and made me stand before the ikon of the Virgin and recite a certain prayer.
But the Russians could not retreat, because in their very midst the priest was standing, the ikonof the Virgin in one hand and the crucifix in the other.
She was scolding him for having forgotten to prepare oil for the lamp before the ikon of some saint.
Then the ikon and the crucifix began to wobble this way and that way, and fell down, too.
Did they make you kneel for hours on sharp stones for having refused to kiss the ikon and the crucifix?
I must add that the original Ikon was supposed to have been dug up in Kazan in 1597.
The French proprietor explained to us that July was the month during which the miraculous Ikon of the Kazan Madonna was carried from house to house by the priests.
The ikon of the Virgin which stands in a chapel in the heart of Moscow, and which is the object of a special veneration to the Russians.
The picture had been placed on the Oriental divan, and as Sledge looked at the chimney-piece he noticed that the little Ikon was still in its place.
The candlesticks and the Ikon were still in their places.
THE IKON Ferroll was an intellectual, and he prided himself on the fact.
He gave me a chair, and while we waited I looked about at the walls with the brightly colored portraits of the Czar and the Czarina and the royal family, and the ikon in one corner.
We were taken into another room, a small back room, bare except for a table and sofa and a tawdry ikon in the farthest corner.
In Russia, as in Greece, an ikonof St. Nicholas is carried in every merchantman.
A thrill of emotion ran through those present, and all joined with the girl, whose sight had been restored, in worshiping the ikon of the wonder-working saint.
Thursday and Friday, days and nights, they spent inside the church kneeling before the ikon in prayer and supplication.
Yet, perchance, God and St Michael will be my sureties," and he pointed at the ikon in the corner.
Then the ikonof St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and said, "Come now!
In the course of the company's friendly carouse at Poltinin's apartments in a dirty little house on the outskirts of the town, the idea of stealing the sacred ikon came into some one's mind.
Bishop Pelagius lived in the monastery in which the ikon of the Mother of God, so revered by the people, was preserved.
The plan was to burn the ikon and to sell the precious stones with which it was covered.
Doulebov stood up before an ikon on one side of the room, assumed a stately air, and exclaimed: "Children, rise to prayer.
It was a difficult affair, as theikon was under guard.
With the same involuntary obedience Ostrov told Trirodov how their company was conspiring to steal a miracle-performing ikon from a neighbouring monastery.
The Ikon costs ten shillings, and ten shillings was much to us in those days.
We sent ten shillings to Moscow and had the Ikon sent to us, and we took it to church and had it blessed.
The Ikon of this room served the economical hostess for both rooms.
However, we agreed to take the offer, and then suddenly we found ourselves rich and important people, and we remembered the Ikon of St. Spiridon of Tremifond and thanked God.
The little boy led him and all his mates into the little bedroom, and they all bowed their hairy faces and crossed themselves before the Ikon of St. Nicholas.
Evidently the Ikon of the Virgin named Izbavelnitsa was being thanked for her protection of the Tsar in a storm.
One evening when we were more than ordinarily desperate he said to me, 'Take my advice; send for an Ikon of St. Spiridon of Tremifond.
The absence of the Ikon told me the difference between sleeping in a house and sleeping in a home.
Nothing disturbed me, though I woke in the night, and looking round, missed the Ikon lamp which would have been burning had I been in a home.
An ikon has been set up within the old building, and the latter is already a place of worship.
If you are ever poor, if ever you want money, send for the Ikon of St. Spiridon.
Take this seat," and she pointed to the place of honor under the ikon and to the right of my father.
In one corner hung a bigikon with a lamp under it.
A large and valuable cargo was lost, but the ikon was miraculously cast upon the beach, uninjured.
The Vladimir-ikon was there and it was ordered through the village elder, that the people be driven to the Church.
He has a miraculous ikon and he was tortured by his undefined attitude to it.
He thought that, apart from the soft light of the ikon lamp, that beamed upon their quiet domestic happiness, that apart from this little world in which he and this cat lived so peacefully and happily, there was another world.
The yellow-painted floors shone, and from the doors narrow rugs with bright blue stripes ran like little paths to the ikon corner, and the sunshine was simply pouring in at the windows.
And all the army and all God's people saw the sacred ikon crying.
They stood and listened to the priest's raving for a moment, understanding nothing; then one knocked the old man down with a buffet, rolling him in the mud, while the ikon fell to the ground.
Vera dashed water upon her eyes and smoothed her ruffled hair; she stood a moment before her ikon and prayed; her eyes were bright and her cheeks flushed; the expression of utter misery had left her face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ikon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
