The head-dress in the shape of a mitreis encircled just above the forehead by a band, which is fastened in front by a triple locket or tassel.
This is the mitre of thy grandfather, the holy Amenhotep," answered Herhor, in a low voice.
To-day he dared to put on the mitre of the holy Amenhotep.
My holy grandfather," replied the pharaoh, "was father of the queen, and in the way of favor he received the right to adorn his mitre with the ureus.
When the chief entered the temple court he was astonished to see Herhor in the mitre of Amenhotep, and surrounded only by priests come out to meet him.
Then the high priest Mefres gave Herhor the mitre of Amenhotep and the young pharaoh for the second time beheld on the head of the high priest the golden serpent, the symbol of regal authority.
Then Herhor took from his head the mitre adorned with the ureus, and gave it to the high priest Mefres.
Almost immediately she resumed her work, bending over the frame where she was embroidering on the sides of the mitre the Gothic ornaments in guipure, or open lacework.
One week had passed, and the work on the mitre advanced.
She added that the mitre would be at his disposal at an early hour on the following morning.
Your mitre will be ready the evening before the procession.
And thou shall put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre, upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
There was dead hush when Adhemar inmitre and stole went down the line followed by a great company of priests bearing smoking censers, and in their midst a high crucifix.
Richard beheld the glowing whiteness of the bands of his pallium, whereon black crosses were embroidered; the jewels flashing on the cope and its golden clasp; the gold on his mitre higher than all the rest.
He had also fixed the mitre on Dapple's head, the oddest transformation and decoration that ever ass in the world underwent.
Mitre Court is perhaps the most famous and revered of all the purlieus of Fleet Street.
The mitre wheel, working with other cogged wheels, communicates the motion of the direction shaft to a cylinder carrying a pencil, to record the direction.
The procession was headed by the effigy of Leonor de Vivero, who had died during trial, clad in widow's weeds and bearing a mitre with flames and appropriate inscription, and followed by a coffin containing her remains to be duly burnt.
The culprit marched in the procession bearing the mitreand sanbenito of relaxation, which were removed on the staging in order that he might be seen in his priestly vestments and tonsure.
His snowy vesture's hem descending low, His golden sandals swept, and, pure as snow New fallen, shone the mitre on his brow.
His snowy vesture's hem descending low His golden sandals swept, and pure as snow New-fallen shone the mitreon his brow.
One day he gets a broken head, and the next a mitre to heal it.
This ancient mitre is so low as to rise only just above the crown of the head.
Here is preserved a mitre, probably the most ancient extant, and said to be that of St. Sylvester, who lived in the fourth century, and who was the first Latin bishop to wear the mitreoriginally worn by the priests of pagan temples.
It had two remarkable promontories on it, one resembling a mitre, and the other a steeple; from whence we called it Mitre Island.
He was a poor Norman priest, who won his mitreby singing a hunting mass quickly before Henry I.
It can hardly be intended for a bishop, as no mitre can be traced, and the staff is held in the right hand.
It is of white marble with two black Corinthian pillars, surmounted by a mitre and arms.
Who would expect to find Aaron's Mitre in any Plant?
The expression has been cited by General Mitre and others as an argument that the drama is modern, because this is a metaphor confined to the old world.
General Mitre wrote an elaborate paper on its authenticity, raising several points to prove that it was of modern origin.
An interesting suggestion as to the origin of the slit in the top of the mitre may be mentioned here.
A mitre of the See of Durham showing the strings (after Millington).
A mitre of the See of Durham showing the strings (after Millington) 54 51.
The particular mitre illustrated is that of the See of Durham, which is distinguished from others in being plumed.
Those who had sat with Johnson at the Mitre or "The Club" could not long survive, and could not leave their eyes and ears behind them.
The mitre upon the head was worn surely as if it were a helmet, the pastoral staff with its double cross was grasped as if it were a sword.
Imagine the unpleasant physical sensation of a bishop in 1404, who was obliged to wear a golden mitre of which the ground was set with large pearls, bordered with balas rubies, and sapphires, and trimmed with indefinite extra pearls!
Ghiberti was not above turning his attention to goldsmithing, and in 1428 made a seal for Giovanni de Medici, a cope-button and mitre for Pope Martin V.
And they fastened it to themitre with a violet fillet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle.
And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate upon the mitre, 29:7.
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.
That message quenches the fire on every other altar, and strips the mitrefrom every other head.
So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
At night I supped with him at the Mitre tavern, that we might renew our social intimacy at the original place of meeting.
On Saturday, May 1, we dined by ourselves at our old rendezvous, theMitre tavern.
On the 26th of October, we dined together at the Mitre tavern.
On Thursday, April 9, I called on him to beg he would go and dine with me at the Mitre tavern.
We rode in our cab to the old Mitre Tavern, and a very old-fashioned place it is.
The cooking at theMitre is unexceptionable, as, indeed, it is generally in all inns throughout England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
