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Example sentences for "shrine"

Lexicographically close words:
shrills; shrilly; shrimp; shrimping; shrimps; shrined; shrines; shrink; shrinkage; shrinke
  1. Trials at the Delphinion, the shrine of Apollo Delphinios, in the same quarter, were reserved for special cases of either accidental or justifiable homicide.

  2. The shrine of St Martin attracted the sick from all quarters, and the basilica of the saint was a favourite sanctuary for political refugees.

  3. He would like to know whether this is the interior Garden, or the Inner Shrine itself, and whose slides they are.

  4. The Shrine of the Báb is rapidly nearing completion.

  5. Certainly the Guardian very aptly described the octagon, the drum and the dome as the triple crowns on the Shrine of the Báb.

  6. Here at the Holy Shrine of our Beloved we remember all the dear friends in England and supplicate humbly for their happiness.

  7. I will continue to supplicate at the Beloved’s Shrine for each one of them the Almighty’s richest blessings, that they may be guided and strengthened to render in the days to come inestimable services to the sacred Threshold.

  8. The Guardian thanks you and the friends for your eagerness to contribute to the cost of the Shrine through the special edition of “Prescription for Living”; also he thanks the friends at Convention for the copy they sent him.

  9. The ancient builders erected a shrine and sacrificial stone on the summit of the pyramid.

  10. It appears that in the Aztec period there was here a native shrine dedicated to some mythological god, and as the foolish legend runs, a miracle caused this spot to be changed to a Christian shrine.

  11. When in dire distress, the party referred to vowed that if the Virgin of Guadalupe would save the lives of the crew, they would bring the ship's mast to her shrine and set it up there, as a perpetual memento of her protecting power.

  12. Over this causeway, Maximilian, actuated by his fanatical religious devotion, and by a desire to impress the popular mind, walked barefooted from the city walls to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe!

  13. Arcade of the Shrine of the Bab The Foundation of the arcade of the Shrine has now been laid and all the heavy threshold stones placed in position.

  14. Pritam Singh when I visit the sacred Shrine that the spirit of Baha’u’llah may inspire, guide and sustain him in his great task.

  15. As you know, he has been pressing the work on the arcade of the Shrine of the Bab in order to have it completed by the Centenary of His martyrdom.

  16. At such a time, when this country has passed through so much danger and difficulty, it is little short of miraculous the way this work on the Shrine has been facilitated and protected and gone ahead steadily!

  17. It is the realization of the fond hope of the beloved Master, who stated to Badi Bushrui one day, as He looked up at the building He Himself had already completed: “The Shrine is as yet unbuilt.

  18. To two doors Shrine recently named after first two aforementioned Hands octagon door now added henceforth associated third Hand who contributed raising stately sacred structure.

  19. His resting place should be regarded foremost Shrine community Burmese believers.

  20. The place where this phenomenon occurred was thus proved divine, the cult of Fortuna Primigenia was established beyond peradventure, and her oracular replies to those who sought her shrine were transmitted by means of these lettered blocks.

  21. This probably proves that suppliants at one shrine went to the other and were there convinced of the power of the goddess by seeing the same priest or something which they themselves had offered at the first shrine.

  22. The cave to the west is made by Delbrueck the shrine of Iuppiter puer, and the temple with its cave at the east, the aedes Fortunae.

  23. The slave, distinctly visible for such, as he glanced by a brightly decorated shrine girt by so many brilliant lamps as shewed its tenant idol to have no lack of worshippers, darted up a small street leading directly towards the Esquiline.

  24. The chamber, in which she reclined alone on a pile of soft cushions, might well have been the shrine of that bland queen of love and pleasure, of whom its fair tenant was indeed an assiduous votaress.

  25. Once as we crossed the sacred way after descending from the Palatine—and once again beside the shrine of Venus in the Cyprian street.

  26. The silver eagle, whose wings were dyed so deep in massacre by Marius—to whom he had a shrine in his own house, consecrated by what crimes, adored by what sacrilege, I say not!

  27. When received it will adorn the newly-restored mansion of Bahá’u’lláh adjoining His Shrine at Bahji.

  28. The shrine has a staff of female attendants for this part of the service of religion.

  29. They also at once set up the worship of Jehovah as the sole God who had his one shrine at Jerusalem.

  30. Those dwelling around the shrine form a kindred of one blood, of which the local god is both the progenitor and the living head.

  31. The religion of a shrine in old times consisted of a certain story about the god, and certain acts done before or near the object which represented him.

  32. It is later that the rite becomes a mystery, known only to the professional guardian of the shrine or to the initiated few.

  33. But besides the altar and the upright stone or massebah the Canaanite shrine had another piece of furniture.

  34. If the shrine has no doctrine enabling man to understand the origin and the connection of things, he will seek such a doctrine elsewhere, and religion will have no control over it.

  35. His shrine was made beautiful as a gem, and night and day the devout worshipped at it Mitford adds (p.

  36. The head thus placed becomes the royal "fetish," and the king goes to take counsel from it just as ancient priests inquired, or pretended to inquire, from the god or lord of some shrine or oracle.

  37. But, after a long consultation, the once brutal, but now humbled, nobleman agrees to erect a shrine to the crucified man, and to pay him divine honours.

  38. Here where she had fallen on her knees to pray before the little shrine in her hotel room.

  39. The crowding of pilgrims to the famous shrine of Mary at that place led him to preach against superstitious notions of meritorious performances.

  40. A relic shrine generally from the 8th century formed the back of the altar.

  41. Becket's shrine at Canterbury, might now be clear.

  42. It was only necessary to call the guardian of her shrine at the high altar.

  43. Chiara's shrine was hung round with her relics; and among these the heart extracted from her body was suspended.

  44. Now, India being at this time Brahmanical, the worthy brothers met with scant courtesy, and on return complained that they had literally found no place at the holy shrine wherein to lay their heads.

  45. Small wonder, then, with a priesthood of clutching hands, that Som-nath stood renowned as the richest shrine in India.

  46. In 1440 Ghiberti finished for the cathedral the shrine of St. Zanobi, one of his finest works.

  47. About 1490, Gherardo di Giovanni and Domenico Ghirlandajo began for Lorenzo the mosaic decoration of the chapel in the choir of the cathedral, where stands the shrine of St. Zanobi.

  48. Their bones were then conveyed to the long-hallowed shrine of St. Denis; but the spot where the mangled remains were first thrown was consecrated, and is now become the site of this beautiful little Chapelle Expiatoire.

  49. The silver shrine for the picture was designed by Michelozzo and was a beautiful thing before the canopy and all the distressing accessories were added.

  50. I should add that anyone on the route in charge of a street shrine had the right to stop the procession in order to take a light from it; while at SS.

  51. Then began the stream of pilgrims to the shrine of genius at Haworth, which has continued from that day to this, and will for many more.

  52. These dances come down from a time when this was a seat of Indian nature worship, and when images of the Sun and Moon were taken in pomp from the shrine here to the shrines upon the Sacred Isles.

  53. Virgin of the Light, shrine of, Copacavana, 126.

  54. Rock of the Sun and the Wild Cat, shrine of, island of Titicaca, 126.

  55. Sacrificial objects, dug up in front of the building, confirm the legend that the place was a shrine of the Moon Mother, but the name by which it has been known is the Palace of the Virgins of the Sun.

  56. South and North, seated in a shrine set upon a pedestal.

  57. Horus of Behutet and Ra-Harmakhis in a shrine IX.

  58. Horus of Behutet and Ra-Harmakhis in a shrine VIII.

  59. These words were, of course, meant as a rebuke for the king, who evidently, though it is not so stated in the text, was intended by Khnemu to undertake the rebuilding of his shrine without delay.

  60. A boat with a rudder and a double shrine shall be therein, and Aten (i.

  61. On the day on which the shrine was consecrated more than ten thousand persons were gathered together from the neighboring villages.

  62. This shrine was set up on St. Stephen's day in 1623.

  63. They, however, insisted; and when they reached the shrine they found there all the people of the village of Tuao, where not a drop of rain had fallen, because the inhabitants of Tuao had not thought of confessing.

  64. While the father was considering where it would best be put, the idea occurred to him that it would be well to establish a shrine on the road between Pia and Tuao, at a distance of about a league and a half from each of the towns.

  65. By way of useful information I may tell you that the shrine of St. Wenceslaus is sanctuary for murderers, but I cannot say whether this custom still obtains under the constitution of the new Czecho-Slovak Republic.

  66. Londoners have probably forgotten that they also have a famous febrifuge in their city's patron saint, St. Erkenwald, to whose shrine came many pilgrims for relief from pain.

  67. I could not help a glance round, which showed me what a little shrine he had made of the box he was lying in.

  68. What else drove the executioner to kneel at every shrine for pardon to his share in the tragedy!

  69. Pilgrims from many a shrine Hallowed by poet's line, At memory's magic sign, Rising to meet thee.

  70. Who shall offer youth and beauty On the wasting shrine Of a stern and lofty duty, With a faith like thine?


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.