In repose, he changed, uttering banal litanies and mumbling childish hymns.
The eldest, a lad of about fifteen years, read aloud the litanies and prayers of the church for the dying, while the three younger children repeated the responses in fervent but trembling accents.
The procession of all beautiful women moves before one in the "Litanies de la Rose"; and the rhythm is incomparable.
His mind is still running on tonal variations in "Les Litaniesde la Rose.
In one place we find a worship of one god, as if there were no others to be considered; some of the litanies on the other hand contain lengthy and elaborate lists of objects of worship.
The Visperad is a collection of litanies for the sacrifice; and the Vendidad is a code of early law, but contains also various religious legends.
A vast amount of legendary and unhistoric matter found in the Breviary has disappeared, litanies to and invocations of the saints and the Virgin Mary have been omitted.
That the litanies were recited on holy-saturday appears from several ancient rites quoted by Marlene (De Ant.
Invocations of the saints in ancient litanies may be seen ap.
Mamertus bishop of Vienne appointed solemn litanies to be recited on the three rogation days.
Prayers are said; hymns, psalms, and litanies are recited by the clergy kneeling near.
I heard a clear, bell-like, treble voice, which generally led their chorus of litanies or prayers, and which never seemed to tire.
Here are wildernesses of dormitories, into which the pilgrims file in slow procession after supper, singing litaniesand hymns.
Xavier, at his departure, made a present to the same lady of a little book, wherein the litanies of the saints, and some catholic prayers, were written with his own hand.
There, for three days the figure was seated before the altar, and the monks chanted the litanies for her soul, which had accompanied her clothes from Choombi.
Emerson is so essentially a poet that whole pages of his are like so many litanies of alternating chants and recitations.
Then at Notre Dame at least one hears curious singing, and he bethought him of those strange litanies which he had heard nowhere else, and yet he had experienced all kinds, in churches.
He read the Penitential Psalms and the Litanies of the Saints; then he hesitated between two volumes of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Angela.
In other churches, at St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, where they were also dropped out by women, the litanies were sprinkled with powder and perfumed by bergamot and ambergris.
She remained long in prayer, repeating one of those litanies which she had learnt in her infancy, and which of late had seemed to her to have somewhat too set and mechanical a rhythm.
As he spake this, he heard the litanies and the mementos of the priests that carried his wife to be buried, upon which he left the good purpose he was in, and was suddenly ravished another way, saying, Lord God!
There it was decreed that they should make a fair procession, stuffed with good lectures, prayers, and litanies contra hostium insidias, and jolly responses pro pace.
We have already mentioned that funeral chants were sung by women and banquet-lays by boys; the religious litanies also were chiefly executed by children.
Not less attractive were the beautiful harmony of the litanies and the impressiveness of the paraphernalia of the temple of every new sect.
Even in case of sickness, litanies and religious rites took the place of medicine before the science of the latter had been developed, and against all calamities of nature prayer was regarded as a talisman.
The hermits were reciting the Litanies of Providence, which are remarkably beautiful.
Besides, the clamour of the litanies was so loud at this moment that they did not even hear the young priest's entreaties.
When all the penances, had been imposed, we all proceeded to the eating-room to supper, repeating litanies on the way.
Next we said the litanies of the holy name of Jesus, in Latin, which was afterward to be repeated several times in the course of the day.
We then repeated again the litanies of the Providences, and the "BENIS," &c.
When all the guests had arrived, tea and sweetmeats were passed round; incense was burned profusely; litanies were mumbled, and the bustle of moving to the grave began, during which I secured a place near the gate of the temple grounds.
The Four Approved Litanies Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus LORD, have mercy on us.
Litanies were solemn supplications instituted to implore the blessing of Heaven on the fruits of the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litanies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
