My deceased mother acquired the old ikons at her own cost, and now it's up to you to get new ones.
There were now only a few ikons in the image-case, only those which had unquestionably belonged to her mother.
Under your late grandfather Mikhail Vasilyevich, a procession with holy ikons went around it.
Well, and if you don't like the old image case, have a new one built and put in new ikons instead of those taken out.
At Yaroslavl the citizens came forth to welcome the approaching army, withikons and provisions and gifts for the voevoda in command.
The monks fought as vigorously as the soldiers, and during the lulls in the attack paraded their venerated ikons on the ramparts.
And always in the corners of the room were ikons with candles lighted before them at night.
They occupied the most comfortable places, and held the bright-colored ikons in their arms--the most precious possession of a Russian home.
The Bogumils in large numbers adopted Islam, with which, in its abhorrence of ikons and images, and in its Monotheism, they were in greater sympathy than with either of the Christian Churches, both of which had persecuted them.
They abhorred the use of ikons and images, and unless the subterranean chapel at Jaitza be one, have left no church.
Many of the ikons and other adornments of the church were presented by the survivors of wrecked vessels; others by illustrious friends in Russia.
The ordinary ikons are restricted to fixed types; the artist therefore has never needed to create, only to reproduce.
Before grand and most holy Moscow; Where the old altars of our land, Where shrines of saints, and ikons stand, Our inmost sanctuary.
The faces of the saints on the ikons are painted upon canvas, and the vestments instead of metal are of worked silk and other tissues.
The screen is of masonry and descends 10 feet below the surface; it is adorned with frescoes, which may be inspected only when the sacred ikons are removed for that special purpose.
The French made it a butt for musketry practice, using sacred ikons for a bull's eye.
It is a typical church, richer in precious metal, sacred ikons and holy relics than other churches in Moscow; it is the pious wish of the guardians of the other churches to make theirs even as is this.
The ikonostas was injured in 1812, but has been restored and some of the ikons are richly decorated with rubies and other gems of great value.
Holy Bread is prepared, and the nuns of the convent are celebrated throughout Russia for the excellence of their work with the needle and brush, their copies of the ikons of these churches being in particular request.
The old-fashioned low ikonostas is of a type common to "wooden Russia"; the ancient ikons call only for the attention of the student, but on the High Altar is a tabernacle in the form of a church with twelve domes which has wider interest.
Another surviving market for miscellaneous articles--from old ikons and bludgeons to picked up trinkets and immense samovars--is held from six o'clock till noon on Sunday mornings around the Sukharev Bashnia.
It is specially visited by the orthodox about to marry, and contains some ikons removed from the church of St Nicholas of Galstun, demolished during the reign of Alexander I.
From time to time priests and acolytes pass to and fro among the congregation, incensing all the sacred ikons in turn.
It was an old and rather poor church; many of the ikons were without settings; but such churches are the best for praying in.
So I could always have clambered up to the ikons and have taken away the money next morning or even that night, and it would have all been put down to Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
For the last fortnight Ilusha had not left his little bed under the ikons in the corner.
It was simply a peasant’s hut, though it looked like a chapel, for it contained an extraordinary number of ikons with lamps perpetually burning before them—which men brought to the monastery as offerings to God.
Yaroslav stepped into the tent, and was so amazed at the sight, that he forgot to pray to the ikons of the Saints.
When the tables were removed, Yaroslav Lasarevich stood up, praying to the ikons of the Saints, and took leave of his father and the Tsar Kartaus.
For that purpose, and facing the ikons of the saints, whom the common people simply call gods, the priest takes the infant in his arms, reads the exhortation, and by that means he is supposed to cleanse the mother.
According to this faith it is also well to visit monasteries and kiss the miraculous ikons and the relics.
She walked through the rooms, and gave orders for the old man's bedroom to be set to rights, and the lamp to be lighted under the ikons in it.
Mitri crossed himself three times, turning towards the corner in which the ikons hung, and repeated some utterly meaningless words, which he called prayers, to the Trinity and the Virgin, the Creed and our Father.
When asked by Missael whether they actually considered the holy ikons to be mere planks of wood, Chouev answered,--"Just look at the back of any ikon you choose and you will see what they are made of.
They also ceased to go to church, and took their ikons to the village priest, saying they did not want them any more.
The tawdry gilt of the Ikons glittered in the candle-light, and an echo of the cold wind creeping up the long dark aisle blew the light about so that the gilt was like flashing piercing eyes.
I have two little ikons here for them, and I am going to write a letter to each of them, if you will permit it.
Ah, my little one, if you will permit your old Alexis to make you a gift, I would offer you these two poor ikons that are certainly from the convent of Troitza at its best period.
So saying Rouletabille wrapped up the two little ikons and put them in his pocket.
Rouletabille kissed his ikonsand handed them to Annouchka along with the letters.
In the half-light of the shop a melancholy shadow leaned over the ikonson the counter.
The paper was the same; the paper in the corner showed where the case ofikons had stood.
He loved that church, the old-fashioned, unadorned ikons and the old priest with the shaking head.
The procession, glittering with the settings of the ikons and the vestments of the clergy, comes slowly down the road and turns towards the Jordan.
Wasn't she, perhaps, standing before theikons when we went in to put us off the scent?
They brought the Ikons and the banners from the church, took the Service in case of great storms or danger, and when they had sprinkled holy water on the waves, the storm drew to a lull and gradually died away.
When she used to rule in a certain old man's house, if one went to her she would give one a crust, and bid one bow down to the ikons while she would sing: 'In conception Thou dost abide a Virgin .
Varvarushka glanced at the ikons again and crossed herself.
There was something new, something gay and light-hearted in her giving of alms, just as there was in the lamps before the ikons and in the red flowers.
There was not one spot on the ikons nor on the dark brown walls which was not begrimed and defaced by time.
Yegorushka went into another room; there was a sewing-machine; in the window was a cage with a starling in it, and there were as many ikons and flowers as in the drawing-room.
The room has not been done yet," she said, ushering the visitors into a stuffy little drawing-room adorned with many ikons and pots of flowers.
Some student taught you, and if he'd taught you to light the lamp before the ikons you would have lighted it.
He strips theikons of their setting and then preaches about God!
It was covered with old and tattered yellow paper, and had horrible lithographs of mythological subjects on the walls; in the corner facing the door there was a long row of painted ikons and several sets of brass ones.
I had noticed just such a one with a wreath of paper roses in a corner under the ikons when I was at Mary Timofyevna's the day before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ikons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
