The dog and jackal were emblems of Anubis, the guardian of the tombs, and the deity presiding over embalmment.
But then such did not own Beryl Matterson as a presiding goddess.
Pleasure, in a variety of festive shapes, but innocent in all, was for the next month the presiding genius of Oakwood and its vicinity.
Of Swinburne he saw no more till Monckton Milnes summoned his whole array of Frystonians to support him in presiding at the dinner of the Authors' Fund, when Adams found himself seated next to Swinburne, famous then, but no nearer.
They remained a few days, during which time President Richards baptized the professor and eight others, and organized a branch of the Church, with Brother Maeser as presiding Elder.
Gully (known as Lieutenant Gully, in the history of the Mormon Battalion), as presiding Elder.
Van Buren found Washington Irving presiding over the London legation in McLane's absence as charge d'affaires.
Squire Walker, as the presiding magistrate, in view of Carruthers personal connection with the death of the subject of the jury's verdict, appointed the detective temporary clerk of the court that should sit after the inquests were over.
He seemed to take a fiendish pleasure in capturing Wilkinson from Miss Du Plessis, and the Captain from her mother, and even sent his conversational shafts far off to the Squire and the doctor, and to the presiding matrons.
On their return to the skiff, the presiding matron, while Miss Du Plessis rowed, unfolded a long piece of yellow leno she had picked up in one of the rooms.
The doctor was carefully carried out, and set in the presiding chair as coroner over the third inquest within two days.
It was evident, from what people heard of the presiding magistrate's conversation, that the court had decided in favour of measures offensive.
In a word, he experiences injuries from the civil magistrates presiding over the provinces, who, at the same time, are the natural enemies of the inhabitants, and the real oppressors of their industry.
Besides the friars, it sometimes happens that no other white person is to be found in an entire province, but the presiding magistrate.
Starting with this phase of the goddess' character, one can at least understand the process of her further development into a fierce deity presiding over the fortunes of war.
So I am presiding over the Commission at the present time.
Mr. Nicol, I am presiding at the request of the Chief Justice.
Mr. Callaway, in the absence of the Chief Justice, I am presiding over the meeting of the Commission this morning.
The gyp-room owned a presiding dignitary of its own who was known as the "gyp-woman," who obligingly performed that service.
The presiding deities praised this sentiment very much, and calling Mr. Sung to come forward, said to him, "A Guardian Angel is wanted in Honan.
At these elections the judge was present as presiding officer, replacing the greffier, as mentioned in a previous chapter, and he was accompanied by the procureur fiscal and the greffier.
The power which you have been given by the king gives you entire authority in the command of the army, but with regard to what concerns the administration of justice, your authority consists in presiding at the Sovereign Council.
However, the child was adopted by the camp, fed and clothed from a general fund, and in time installed as presiding Goddess of the Paradise Hotel.
She delights in presiding at these political dinners where all the guests are men, and of which her grace and eloquence constitute the charm.
She, who doubtless thought herself the only person capable of presiding well at the council of ministers, treated it as a "cafe where they amused themselves with idle gossip.
The grating was opened, a ladder let down and I climbed up and was led across the open court through a long hall into a large room, where twelve men, laymen and ecclesiastics, sat, the prelate acting as presiding officer.
The life of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal was attempted no less than three times, once in open daylight, when he was presiding at a certain state function.
Borden Harriman of New York is presiding over the commission.
The Redstart is thepresiding genius of woodland and grove.
Here is thepresiding genius of all properly conducted ranches upon the sunny side of the Cascade Mountains.
Clark's Nutcracker is the presiding genius of the East-side slopes and light-forested foothills, as well as of the rugged fastnesses of the central Cordilleras.
Somewhat less cautious than the waterfowl, he is the presiding genius of flowing acres, which often have no other interest for the ornithologist.
I have been looking in vain for a guide through the intricacies of Sir Richard's yew hedges and leaden statues; may I hope that my presiding angel has sent me one in you?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presiding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
