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Example sentences for "pentacle"

Lexicographically close words:
penso; penstock; penstocks; pent; pentachloride; pentadactyle; pentagonal; pentagons; pentagram; pentameter
  1. Write thou this Pentacle upon virgin parchment or paper because it is terrible unto the Demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence.

  2. Be pleased O IHVH to deliver me, O IHVH make haste to help me" (see fig 23) The Third Pentacle of Venus.

  3. Cunningham says that the pentacle ‘when delineated upon the body of a man was supposed to point out the five wounds of the Saviour.

  4. A rich disparent pentacle she wears, Drawn full of circles and strange characters.

  5. A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.

  6. A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands.

  7. A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet.

  8. I knew that the pentacle would govern her, and the ring must bind, until I gave the word.

  9. Because of this mystic Hand the pentacle or five-pointed (fingered) figure became the Sigil of Signomancy in the early ages.

  10. Then did I mark my pentacle in the very midst, and at the intersection of the five angles I did set up and fix my crutch of raun (rowan).

  11. Mechanically I turned round the miniature to examine the back of it, and on the back was engraved a pentacle; in the middle of the pentacle a ladder, and the third step of the ladder was formed by the date 1765.

  12. You have made an analysis of the mixture with which I traced the pentacle on your nephew's thigh, but in what way can you discover the words which give the pentacle its efficacy?

  13. If you will write the words you uttered, as you drew the pentacle on my nephew's thigh, and if I find the same talisman with the same words around it, the identity will be proved.

  14. Madame d'Urfe found the pentacle and read out the names, while I pretending astonishment, gave her the paper, and much to her delight she found the names to be the same.

  15. While she was looking about, I opened the book behind her back, and found it to be full of pentacles, and by good luck found the pentacle I had traced on the count's thigh.

  16. I drew Solomon's pentacle on the thigh of Count de la Tour d'Auvergne in the hour of Venus, and if I had not begun with Arael, the spirit of Venus, the operation would have had no effect.

  17. Then he assigned our several functions; to the necromancer, his comrade, he gave the pentacle to hold; the other two of us had to look after the fire and the perfumes; and then he began his incantations.

  18. He next placed in my hand the pentacle, which he bid me turn toward the points he indicated, and under the pentacle I held the little boy, my workman.

  19. Then did I mark my pentacle in the very midst, and at the intersection of the five angles I did set up and fix my crutch of raun [rowan].

  20. But now, although face to face with the spirit, my heart grew calm and my mind composed, to know that the pentacle would govern her, and the ring must bind until I gave the word.

  21. Miss Sylvester immediately made the protective sign of the Pentacle and suffered no inconvenience, but Mrs. Harper neglected to take this precaution and the monstrous animal followed her about.

  22. The pentacle and the circle the consecrated sword and the crucifix, the sign of the cross and the muttered paternoster, will not protect the unshriven sinner from the claws of a raised demon.

  23. I rubbed the circle and the pentacle away from the boards with the sole of my foot, leaving but an undistinguishable smudge behind.

  24. My lord Charles, go thou prithee, and with chalk draw me a pentacle upon the threshold of each of the four; and do thou, sir Toby Mathews, make the holy sign thereabove upon the lintel and the doorposts.

  25. The moment they crossed the threshold, the door was closed behind them, the holy sign was signed over the one, and the pentacle drawn upon the other.

  26. And now look at this----" Standing in the centre of the pentacle he stooped down and pressed hard on one of the little pieces of dark parquet.

  27. Verrall will bear me out in that--and the pentacle was therefore in my mind's eye when I did this.

  28. I need hardly tell you that a pentacle is a six-sided star very frequently used in masonry and the East," he said as they looked at him in some mystification.

  29. I know the dead man now: Sam Blake, tipster and member of the Pentacle Club.

  30. She earns a living by teaching, and lives with her brother, BOBBY WYNNE, a young spendthrift and gambler, in the power of JAMES BLAKE, the head of the Pentacle Club.

  31. As to his brother and the Pentacle Club: they had evidently meant to make this house their headquarters, and they took advantage of its construction in order to make what would have been a safe deposit bank for their loot.

  32. As you know, my friend, the Pentacle is a star formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star.

  33. Otherwise, you know, we shall put the Pentacle Club on guard, and if this is one of its crimes, we want to scotch the whole gang once and for all.

  34. I knew that the murdered man was a member of the notorious Pentacle Club, since a pentacle was tattooed on his arm--Dr.

  35. For that is the jewel-case of the Pentacle Club.

  36. To this end, I got the men well together, and began to fit the Electric Pentacle right around us, so that the five points of the Defensive Star came just within the Hair Circle.

  37. The dawn came slowly, and presently the wan light filled all the room, and made the pale glare of the Electric Pentacle look more unearthly.

  38. I asked him how he felt and then, so soon as the girl and her mother were ready for us, Captain Hisgins and I went into the bedroom and fixed the pentacle again 'round the bed.

  39. I completed the barriers in about an hour, and you can imagine something of the relief I felt when I felt the pale glare of the Electric Pentacle once more all about me.

  40. The girl's mother I had placed within the pentacle and directed that her maid should sit without, ready to carry any message so as to make sure that Mrs. Hisgins did not have to leave the pentacle.

  41. I had the bed pulled well out into the middle of the room, after which I erected the electric pentacle 'round the bed.

  42. Presently I got hold of myself a bit, and marked out a pentacle hurriedly with chalk on the polished floor; and there I sat in it almost until dawn.

  43. The hand was plunging toward me; yet, even as it had been unable to pass into the Pentacle when the ring was without, so, now that the ring was within, it had no power to pass out.

  44. At midnight I drew a pentacle 'round him and Parsket and I sat one on each side of him, outside the pentacle, for I had no fear that there would be any manifestation made against anyone except Beaumont or Miss Hisgins.

  45. I felt happier then; for this Pentacle is, as you all know, a wonderful 'Defense.

  46. I was made conscious of it, rather by some inward, unused sense than by either sight or sound; for the pale, short-radius glare of the Pentacle gave but a very poor light for seeing by.

  47. I gave one crazy yell, and jumped over the Pentacle and the ring of burning candles, and ran despairingly for the door.

  48. Caligula made use of the roofs of edifices which were already there, spanning only the gaps of the streets with temporary wooden passages.

  49. From the palace at the northeast corner of the Palatine, he crossed the roof of the templum divi Augusti, then the fastigium basilicæ Juliæ, and lastly the Temple of Saturn close to the Capitolium.


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