A few grey hairs his reverend temples crowned, 'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.
How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread!
The thinning of his hair at the temples was more pronounced, and here and there was the warning of premature gray.
As a sick man emerging from a fever, Selwyn let the refreshing vigour of the morning lave his temples with its potency.
In an instant she was standing over him arranging his pillows, and soothing his temples with the gentle pressure of her hands.
Indeed, the laurel had hardly rested upon Dryden's temples before he experienced the assaults of an organized literary opposition.
Whatever laurels Fame may justly garland the temples of Dan Chaucer withal, she never, we are obliged to believe, employed royal instrument at the coronation.
Then again I fell asleep; and when, as day was breaking, I woke once more and remembered all that had befallen me yestereve, I had to clutch my shoulders and temples or ever I was certain that indeed my eyes were open on another day.
My heart beat in my temples like the clapper of an alarm-bell.
One having bathed her long hair, plentifully besmeared with oil, braiding it in a curve on the temples and fastening it in a knot on the top of her head, stirs the pulse cooking in an earthen pot, like Krishna prodding the cows with a stick.
She admired the poem; and next day, binding a wreath of flowers in the name of Cupid, she crowned the poet's temples therewith.
Then Surja Mukhi's blue eyes grew inflamed with anger, the crimson veins on her temples stood out.
Etruria, with its ancient temples and shrines of the gods, to the worship of whom the people still tenaciously clung, was traversed.
Close to them was the dwelling of the Rex Sacrificulus, while on the left appeared the temples of Vesta and of Castor, behind which ran the Nova Via, directly at the base of the Palatine.
Be that as it may, his acts show enmity to the ancient faith; he has already in the East destroyed numerous temples of the gods, and prohibited the celebration of many of those august mysteries which have existed from time immemorial.
Several new churches and basilicas were in course of erection, and even some of the heathen temples were being converted so as to suit the worship of the Christians.
Many temples were, however, closed, while others had been slightly altered to fit them for the Christian worship.
He now frequently took him out when he went abroad to visit the temples to give directions to the flamens and to advise them how to comport themselves in the perilous circumstances in which they were placed.
The idolaters generally, however, objected to allow theirtemples to be so employed.
Its property in meeting houses, tabernacles, temples and other necessary buildings, was valued at many millions of dollars.
The time will come when there will be one in the center of temples we shall build, and on the top, groves and fish ponds.
When these were bestowed, then greater light was revealed, and the full purpose of temples and ordinance work therein was made known.
In Jackson County and Far West, they were prevented from building temples by their enemies, who drove them from their homes.
Other temples had been built, but the Saints had not been granted the privilege of enjoying blessings in them for any length of time.
It was organized for the purpose of aiding the members of the Church in the collecting and compiling of the records of their dead preparatory to the performance of ordinance work for their salvation in the temples of the Lord.
That edifice, although one of the most important ever erected by the Church, was not a complete structure as temples are understood through increased revelation.
Adorn his temples with a coronet And yet, in substance and authority, Retain but privilege of a private man?
Your temples burned in their cement, and Your franchises, whereon you stood, confin'd Into an auger's bore.
Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty From the dead temples of this bloody wretch Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal.
Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war!
In the name of God, How comes it then that thou art call'd a king, When living blood doth in these temples beat Which owe the crown that thou o'er-masterest?
And will you pale your head in Henry's glory, And rob his temples of the diadem, Now in his life, against your holy oath?
They are brought out from their temples and carried in the solemn procession to join with the people in the universal prayer for rain.
Every house in the town, and even the temples of the gods have some pasted over the front doors.
Then the cities abound with temples dedicated to certain well-known gods that have been built, some of them at great expense, and are kept in constant repair by the free-will offerings of the people.
This latter fact is a sufficient explanation of how it is possible for such men as now act as interpreters of the gods to be tolerated in the service of the temples at all.
In each of these lesser temples there are placed images of some of the more commonly worshipped idols, a veritable kind of Pantheon where each visitor can find the particular god that he deems the most suitable for his individual requirements.
You could not speak with more accuracy," returned the young sailor, with a look that sent the conscious blood to the temples of the lady, "though you had made marine terms your study.
The temples of Edfu, Esna and Dendera are thus arranged.
British Museum, and the temples of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias and Cybele at Sardis.
Outside Rome, in provincial towns and in Africa and Syria, the Forum was generally built on the intersection of the two main streets, and was surrounded by porticoes, temples and civic monuments.
Of the rectangular temples the Maison Carree at Nimes is the most perfect example existing (fig.
This carries on the traditional custom of the Roman temples in Syria, the roofs of which, in stone, were similarly supported.
Of the circulartemples the Pantheon is the most remarkable.
There is one important distinction, however, to be drawn between the Theban temples and those built under the Ptolemaic rule.
In consequence of the building of the Assuan dam all these templesare submerged for the greater part of the year.
Penrose were engaged in examining the orientation of temples in Egypt and Greece, with a view to determining on what astronomical principle, if any, the plans had been laid down.
Would you, to gratify a morbid sentimentality desecrate and tear down one of the most magnificent temples of human liberty, ever erected?
We have had the privilege of assisting in building temples to the Lord, and administering therein.
Here stood the temples of the chief deities of the town; here were immense magazines and storehouses capable of containing provisions for a prolonged siege for the fifty thousand men whom the place could contain.
The rainfall from the roofs of the temples and houses was conducted to the reservoirs, and these stores were never drawn upon on ordinary occasions, the town being supplied with water brought by aqueducts from long distances among the hills.
At the foot of this natural citadel stretched the lower town, with its crowded population, its dense mass of houses, its temples and forum.
A band of gold surrounded the helmet; in front were five laurel leaves in steel; at the temples two leaves of the lotus of the same metal.
Thus he spake; and when Heracles heard his words, sweat in abundance poured down from his temples and the black blood boiled beneath his heart.
Pagan temples were deserted, and the sacrificial fires on their altars extinguished.
The genius of Michael Angelo, so truly Catholic in taste and devout in expression, transplanted pagan forms from the broken temples of the elder civilization to the Christian churches of the new.
It has always said: The temples of the law, the sanctuary of justice, the priesthood of the magistracy.
Relations also consecrated temples to the dead, which Pliny calls a very ancient custom, which had its share in contributing to the establishment of idol-worship.
No temples of worship had they; their God was a naked sword fixed in the ground.
Temples and altars were reared to the emperor; sacrifices were offered to him; he was worshipped as a deity.
Constantine lost his temper, and violently replied that he would close the Christian churches, and reopen the temples of the heathen gods.
Do not hesitate to make use of the meadow, and from its flowers bind garlands about the temples of the goddess of liberty!
And those minutes he spent in bathing his temples and struggling against his thoughts.
My head is burning, and still the blood thunders in my temples without a pause.
Our sodden clothes freeze our skin; our saturated caps bear down on our temples with slow and painful pressure.
Secondly, it is very possible that many of the heathen temples may, after the edict of Theodosius (A.
To all else that is strange and beautiful in nature the Canyon stands as Karnak and Baalbec, seen by moonlight, stand to all other ruined temples and palaces of the bygone ages.
The beast life of this prehistoric California must be called ancient by a standard which would adjudge the Egyptian pyramids and the Mesopotamian palace mounds and the Maya forest temples to be modern.
Religious service is held in the temples every day at the end of the Obligatories, and whenever we are near a village or in any of the capitals we always go.
A sort of march in the temples is as much a part of the worship as singing, and so dancing has been preserved from the disgrace which it used to be in with serious people among us.
It is of the typical Hindu plan of a square with recessed corners, and is built like all the ancient Kashmir temples of massive blocks of stones.
At Patan, 13 miles before reaching Srinagar, are two more ruined temples of massive construction.
The roof is certainly modern, but the temple as a whole probably belongs to the same period as the other temples in Kashmir.
There are also several Hindu temples of the usual type, and not especially characteristic of Kashmir.
This kingdom is not much given to the faith, and the temples of the heretics are their sole thought.
There is not much left now above ground, for numbers of the massive blocks of stone of which the city and temples were built have been taken away ages ago to build the temples of Patan close by, and, alas!
He also repaired some Hindu temples and revived Hindu learning.
Her temples were throbbing, and it was hard to think at all connectedly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
