Within the church, near the altar, a manger would be arranged with an ox and an ass, in imitation of the manger at Bethlehem.
To do honour to the Babe Jesus that was born in a manger at Bethlehem--that is the real meaning of the gladness of Christmas Day.
So I went to the manger again, and thence to the barn and around the house.
House, barn, orchard, all were deathly still there in the brilliant sunshine; I ran to the manger and found it empty of cattle.
Though narrow shed His might confineth, Though low inmanger He reclineth, Bright on His brow a glory shineth.
At first I thought the place uninhabited, but near the manger I espied two human bodies enveloped in a long wrap.
Leaning from the starry sky, "In a manger Christmas morn Christ the baby King is born!
Heavens ring With the song the Angels sing, "In a manger Christmas morn Christ the baby King is born!
They went, and found Him, a little baby, in a stable, with no cradle to lie in; only a manger for His bed.
Was there nothing but a manger Cursed sinners could afford To receive the heavenly stranger?
This chamber was brilliantly illuminated by the blaze of several large lamps of tarnished silver and gold suspended from the ceiling and protruding from the walls, and the salle-à-manger was lighted in the same fashion.
Slowly and as if regretfully they passed through the salle-à-manger and the apartment they had first entered, gaining the stairway and preparing to ascend it.
The marvellous salle-à-manger was precisely the same as the Baron d' Epinay had seen it.
In the centre of the salle-à-manger the dining-table still stood with its dishes of silver and plates of Japanese china.
We left our shawls and carpet-bags in the salle a manger of the Hotel Faucon, and set forth to find the cathedral, the pinnacled tower of which is visible for a long distance up and down the lake.
A manger was the cradle That Christ was rocked in; The provender the asses left, So sweetly he slept on.
In Bethlehem, in Jury, This blessed babe was born, And laid within a manger Upon this blessed morn; The which his mother Mary Did nothing take in scorn.
In a manger laid and wrapp’d I was, So very poor, this was my chance, Betwixt an ox and a silly poor ass, To call my true love to my dance.
Not sumptuously, but simply, Was this young King array’d; A manger was the cradle, Where this young child was laid.
She had few indulgences, but she had the baby, the wonderful child whom she had found lying in the manger on Christmas Day.
Shall we two get up early, very early in the morning, like the shepherds did, and go and look in our manger if He 's there?
Will the babe be lying in our manger to-morrow morning?
See, Rhoda," she cried, "I found the little baby in the manger on Christmas morning!
The manger was empty, as it had been the year before; but the home seemed empty too.
Then with solemn steps they approached the mangerand raised the lantern to look into its cradle lined with hay.
Perhaps," answered Rhoda; "nobody knows whosemanger He will come to.
As Thou didst deign to lie in a cavern, in a manger of dumb beasts, so now deign to enter into the manger of my beastly soul, and into my soiled body.
The boy did as he had said; and when the cow stood with a fullmanger in front of her, he thought that at last he should get some sleep.
She had leaned against the manger and talked about two strangers who had been to see her, and had asked if they might buy the swamp.
They may all look into the manger and see their God.
Yes, they all look into the manger as they look upon the cross and if only for an instant this war reddened planet comes to "see and believe.
Oh, yes, the poor and the bereaved have as great a right to look into thatmanger and see their God there as have the rich and the care free.
Little Christ Child By Mary Mild In Manger lies without the Inn; Of Man the Son, Yet God in One, To save the lost in World of Sin.
Let us take him out of the manger cradle, each one of us, and enthrone Him in the most precious place we have, our inmost hearts.
Let us forget the Angel Chorus and the blazing star and go now even unto Bethlehem and look into the manger at that Child, while the uncomprehending cattle stare resentful perhaps at their displacement.
Little Christ Child, By Mary Mild, In mangerlies without the inn; Of Man the Son, Yet God in One, To save the lost in world of sin.
Beautiful sing, For the mangerof Bethlehem cradles a king.
And the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king.
The red collar was gone; and he was chained to the manger by a hame-strap.
In the meantime, several sharp-eyed women were unwittingly maintaining a sort of dog-in-the-manger guard over their alien flag.
For if the German stoves were oppressively hot, the French salles manger were bitterly cold, and above all stormy.
Down the hole from the manger Starr slid, and into the arroyo bottom.
At some risk to his tan shoes and his new gray suit, Starr climbed into the manger and let himself down that hole.
It was late, nearly midnight, to be exact, when he slipped out to the shed, and watched from its shadow until he was sure that no one had seen him, before he let himself down through the hole in the manger to the arroyo bottom.
He never comes into the barn without piling his manger full of hay.
He seemed to have forgotten that suspicion of his that Tom was liable to let Dobbin's manger go empty.
She points expressively to the manger where lies the divine Infant, while Joseph leans on his staff and appears lost in thought.
In some instances they stare into the manger with a most naïve expression of amazement at what they find there.
I must notice here a tradition that both the ox and the ass who stood over the manger at Bethlehem, accompanied the Holy Family into Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: box; cavity; cell; chamber; compartment; crib; crypt; enclosure; hold; hole; hollow; pew; stall; vault
