Next a steer, Picked for his swelling neck and beauteous form, He leads to the altar, and with slanting knife Spreads on his brow the meal, and pours the wine.
He was Pontifex Maximus, and slain by the altarof Vesta.
Here Stephen wandered among the multifarious tombstones and looked in at the chancel window, dreaming of something that was likely to happen by the altarthere in the course of the coming month.
They entered by the side-door, went eastward, and sat down by the altar-steps.
In the centre, immediately in front of the altar, is a circular stone, as in the open altar.
Shang Ti, and incense to his ancestors whose shrines and tablets are arranged on the northeast and northwest portions of the altar.
The despair of not loving her husband flung her violently at the foot of the altar, where divine and consolatory voices urged her to patience.
On the days of the processions the Sauviats scrupulously hung their house with sheets covered with flowers, and contributed money to the erection and adornment of the altar, which was the pride and glory of the whole square.
Burn this last incense on the altar of your penitence, or else your repentance is a lie.
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
Chapter LXIX - Twelfth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve, while Adam was praying over the offering on the altar; when Satan beat him.
But that which had dropped on the sand, they took together with the dust with which it was mingled and offered it on the altar as an offering to God.
Then Satan hastened with the sharp iron stone he had with him, and with it pierced Adam on the right side, from which flowed blood and water, then Adam fell on the altar like a corpse.
Adam was then offering on the altar, and had begun to pray, with his hands spread before God.
Until Augustus leads me to the altar he is not sure of me.
Miss Pecksniff had quite the air of having taken the unhappy Moddle captive, and brought him up to the contemplation of the furniture like a lamb to the altar.
And for all the roughness of the season, at that time it pleased me better than the leafy days, because I had less memory then of the sharpness of my fear on that day of the altar.
And he sang the high mass on Easter day at the altar of Christ.
And the wretched monks lay about the altar, and some crept under, and earnestly called upon God, imploring his mercy, since they could not obtain any at the hands of men.
Four respectable deputations were successively voted to the Imperial court, [13] to represent the grievances of the priesthood and the senate, and to solicit the restoration of the altar of Victory.
The senators were sworn on the altar of the goddess to observe the laws of the emperor and of the empire: and a solemn offering of wine and incense was the ordinary prelude of their public deliberations.
The altar of Victory was again restored by Julian, tolerated by Valentinian, and once more banished from the senate by the zeal of Gratian.
The brute was quite close now--creeping with clawlike hands extended toward her around the end of the altar.
For the moment she forgot her victim, and before she could gather her wits together again the huge white man was standing before her, the woman who had lain uponthe altar in his arms.
Two or three low broad steps led to a platform in front of the altar, or what resembled such.
But what struck the sisters most was a very tall and broad mirror, which occupied all the space behind the altar, and, illumined by the lighted torches, reflected the mysterious articles which were laid upon it.
The Italian then, extending his bare arm from under his linen vestment, pointed with his forefinger to five large flambeaux, or torches, placed on each side of the altar.
But there were no separate shrines, no images, no display of chalice or crucifix on the altar.
So we, marring the office of silence, question its mystery; thwart ourselves with riddles of our own suggesting; and turn away, leaving our offering but half consumed on the altar of the unknown god.
But you may imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the first pew.
They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar.
Do you suppose I would drag my daughter to the foot of the altar, were it not her own choice?
I will listen to nothing but to her consent, plighted at the altar.
Ellieslaw led, or rather supported, his daughter to the altar.
But fear nothing--at the very foot of the altar I will redeem thee.
Then they cruelly killed him close to the altar of St. Bennet; and his body fell upon the pavement, which was dirtied with his blood and brains.
He leaped out of bed, got out of the house, fled to the church, ran up to the altar, and laid his hand upon the cross.
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