The historical antiquarian society that has marked many of the literary shrines of London has rendered a great service.
The same tranquil beauty, as of old, hallows this place; the same sense of awe and mystery broods over its silent shrines of everlasting renown.
A record that all lovers of the Shakespeare shrines have long wished to make can at last be made.
Then will this consecrated land, the abode of shrines and temples, be densely filled with graves and corpses.
One is always hearing of the lack of religion among the Japanese, but there never was a land with so many shrines and temples.
Along the turbulent stony river a quiet paved path runs beneath tall trees, and beside it are many little shrines and temples.
And these shrines are not deserted, they are tended daily by the passers-by as well as by the dwellers in the immediate neighbourhood.
A little island lies in the pond, which is reached by a bridge, and on it is a temple, with shrines standing on it.
Encouraged, however, by the wholesale attack on images and pilgrimageshrines begun in England (1538), he determined to undertake a similar work in Ireland in the same year.
Leave my palace halls: Quit these pureshrines oracular with speed!
Before these shrines pilgrims were kneeling in prayer.
Small shrines with pictures above them, fourteen in all, representing the fourteen traditionary stations of the Via Dolorosa, were arranged at intervals along the path around the garden.
It contains the principal halls and chapels and shrines of past Dalai lamas.
In the second and third storeys of the temple are shrines and representations of a number of gods and goddesses.
The next stage (b) is connected with the suppression of the local high-places or minor shrines in favour of a central sanctuary.
In addition to this, jasmine and rose-bushes at the shrines of certain saints are supposed to possess issue-giving properties.
A subcaste of Brahmans who act as emissaries for the owners of the shrines at Gaya and wander about the country inducing villagers to undertake the pilgrimage and personally conducting their constituents.
Women who desire children resort to the shrines of saints, who are supposed to be able to induce fertility.
The Mali was thus a kind of assistant in the religious life of the village, and he is still sometimes placed in charge of the village shrines and is employed as temple-servant in Jain temples.
They are almost all celibates, and pay special reverence to the Adi-Granth of Nanak, but also respect the Granth of Govind Singh and attend the same shrines as the Sikhs generally.
The severe plainness of the interior of a mosque demonstrates the strict monotheism of Islam, and is in contrast to the temples and shrines of most other religions.
This alternative failing, Tristan was utterly at sea as to what he would do, the prescribed rounds of obediences before the shrines and the penances accomplished.
The city of palaces, basilicas and shrines had sunk to this!
Go on a pilgrimage to Rome, to obtain forgiveness, as I shall visit the holy shrines of Mont Beliard and do likewise," she said, steadying her voice with an effort.
On the morrow he was to enter the service of the Senator of Rome, who had departed on his pilgrimage to the shrines of Monte Gargano.
Before his departure to the shrines of the Archangel, Alberic has appointed this nameless stranger captain of Castel San Angelo.
Alberic had departed for theshrines of the Archangel at Monte Gargano.
Take the road that leads by Benevento to the Shrines of the Archangel.
A long deferred pilgrimage to the shrines of the Archangel at Monte Gargano will take me from Rome for the space of a month or more.
It would happen again, as long as men were ready to sacrifice at the shrines of Hekate.
Some of the shrines are sacred to a woman who passes for the sister or the daughter of a saint at the same or a neighbouring locality.
They have found their parallel in the welis or patrons, saints and holy sheikhs of the modern shrines (see pp.
The modern analogy is instructive in many points of detail, particularly when we observe the vicissitudes which the occupants of the shrines have experienced.
The shrines are the centres of story and legend which relate their origin, legitimise their persistence, or illustrate their power.
The religious life of the peasants is bound up with the shrines and saints.
The venerated shrines regularly found their justification in the traditions which encircled the illustrious occupant: to violate them was not merely an insult, it struck a blow at one of the centres of cult and prosperity.
I would have these stately shrines deprived of the idols which, no longer simply regarded as the effigies of the good and of the wise, have become the objects of foul idolatry.
Most major historic sites and shrines in the Basin have received protection of one sort or another.
A few days later I was on board the Katori-maru, the newest type of Japanese shrine, the modern commercial floating shrine, named after one of the most ancient of shrines in Japan.
Then from chamber to chamber we strolled, past tables of stone and shrines and effigies, and into the heart of China's superstitious soul.
Transferring shrinesfrom land to sea is a hazardous procedure.
There were too many people willing to patronize floatingshrines at that time for me to be too particular about deities.
The mutilation and desecration of her shrines stirred the hearts of the people to the very depths.
Childless parents of great possessions often made pilgrimages to distant shrines in search of an heir, and still others were pilgrims because they loved change and to live close to Nature, though perhaps they never knew it.
There are the words; somebody uttered them; and the question arises, who was that daring man who broke the severe silence or reservations of centuries and did honour to the king who built shrines to gods and goddesses?
Had the royal "idolator" or his wives stained theirshrines with human blood the prophets would have been eager to declare it.
Glasgow,--with the Solomonic demonology, looks as if it may once have been part of a theory that the idolatrous shrines were built for the princesses while the Devil was personating their lord.
The pilgrims of the East and West resorted to the holy threshold; but the shrines of the apostles were guarded by miracles and invisible terrors; and it was not without fear that the pious Catholic approached the object of his worship.
And that you may not say that I allege Poetical or philosophic learning:-- Consider the ambiguous responses Of their oracular statues; from two shrines Two armies shall obtain the assurance of 140 One victory.
The unknown approached to speak to him; then, suddenly drawing a knife from his girdle, sprang at him, and crying ‘This for desecrating the shrines of Ise!
He knows the passes of the North, And seeks far shrines beyond the Forth; Little he eats, and long will wake, And drinks but of the stream or lake.
The bases of the walls which enclose the courts and water-basins of the temple of Marathus can still be traced, as well as the huge stones which formed the three cellae, the innermost shrines of this temple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
