Do the cup-shaped depressions represent water, or are they receptacles for rain, and do the spiral symbols typify the whirling winds?
The grooves in the stone were probably filled with water to typify a country partially covered with rain-water.
Little genre studies of agricultural life typify the seasons, and the vices and virtues are rendered with movement and subtlety.
The priests of the civilized nations adopted various modes of dress to typify the divinity which they served, and their appearance was often in the highest degree unprepossessing.
The room swam in vivid sunshine, and seemed thus to typifythe toiler's escape from poverty and defeat.
I am made all over new inside--so I hastened to typify the change exteriorly.
One of these is being welcomed by St. Francis himself, while another, a nun, is presented with a cross by one of the attendant female figures, possibly intended to typify Sta.
A word in passing regarding these sons, for they typify a form of parasitical growth, of the fungus variety, which in these days has battened and waxed noxious on the great stalk of legitimate commercial enterprise.
The "monstrum horrendum" of Poe was descending upon them in the garb which alone could fully typify the character of the man!
They seemed to typify the ceaseless throbbing of his own great brain.
They came to typify all the dark and formidable powers as to their inevitableness.
The innumerable phallic deities, the incubi and succubae, are monotonous as the waves of the ocean, which might fairly typify the vast, restless, and stormy expanse of sexual nature to which they belong.
Let us turn first to the one and then to the other, till, as we gaze at these poor eyeless images, which are all we now have, some vision of the lives and minds they typify shall swim into our ken.
Two colliding waves, two rollers meeting, typify rest by extinction and interference.
Juxtaposition and arrangement are the geometrical operations which typify the work of knowledge in such a case; or else we must fall back on metaphors from some mental chemistry, such as proportioning and combination.
He was armed with thunder, to indicate he produced meteors, to typify the electric fluid that is called lightning.
Saint Madalene of Pazzi, however, regards it differently, and takes it to typify faith leaning on charity.
Thus a pillar by itself may not necessarily typify an Apostle, but if there should be twelve, they evidently show the meaning attributed to them by the builder, since they recall the exact number of Christ's disciples.
Why should the phoenix here typify Chastity, for it is not used generally in that sense in the Bird-books of the Middle Ages?
It is symbolical of dissimulation and depravity, and taken to typify the degrading life of the mountebank.
They no doubttypify the seven avenues, the seven gifts of the Paraclete.
But it is a rational, a venerable institution, if it is understood totypify and celebrate the moral and physical curative virtues of water.
Bread and wine typify to us the truth that Man is the true God and Saviour of man.
These differences typify the quarrels of the age concerning religion and politics.
Other books tell of the warfare of the Knights who typify Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Courtesy.
The symbolic figures typify the awakening of man's finer instincts and energies at the call of the morning, and the shrinking of the vices when the darkness of night gives place to the light of day.
The three main groups typify the rise of man, and especially the rise of man's civilization through religion.
It was allegorical and was intended to typify the course of human life.
Others considered them to typifythe entangling nature of sin or of any deviation from the rectilinear path of Christian duty.
If any reliance could be placed on this old story the Corporation of London might do well to embody the Labyrinth, or Troy-town, in their armorial bearings, for what symbol could better typify the complexities of our metropolis?
Besides these, since the rope hath its beginning from the wood upon which the bell hangeth, by which is understood our Lord's Cross, it doth thus rightly typify Holy Scripture which doth flow down from the wood of the Holy Cross.
Did the Paschal Lamb typify the Immaculate Victim in any thing more than its comparative purity and its bloody death?
The bells, by the voice of which the people are called together unto the church, typify also preachers: the which being necessary for many uses, are called by many names.
The two choirs then typify the angels, and the spirits of just men, while they cheerfully and mutually excite each other in this holy exercise.
The white covering doth typify the joy of immortality: concerning which the Son exulteth, saying unto the Father, 'Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
They are to be our examples, and the seven lamps above them typify those graces of the Spirit, by Whom alone we can tread in their steps.
Those churches which on the Nativity suspend curtains of poor texture thereby typify that Christ did then 'take upon Himself the form of a servant, [Footnote 325 ] and was clothed in miserable rags.
The heave-shoulder and wave-breast typify the power and love of our great High Priest; that we should devote to Him our whole heart, with fervent prayer, and grateful praise.
This hill Moriah, as was said afore, did more properlytypify Christ.
The women weeping for him typify the once-virgin churches, who honor the alleged hell-fire god and lament the ones in the fire.
The youngest of Jacob's children, he seems in some aspects to typify the Great Company class (Z.
As places typify conditions, the land of Canaan, of the children of Israel, types the whole world of mankind.
The various offerings typify the following: A burnt offering will be a thankful prayer to God, acknowledging His mercy, wisdom and love as manifested in the broken Body of the offerer's great Ransomer.
I think, though, of two men I have met over here who were designed by nature and by environment to typify exactly what they are.
By reason of his dramatic name, rather than by any marked circumstance of his deposition, he has come totypify with historians the close of the line of western emperors.
This drinking is supposed to typify that henceforth they will share each other's joys and sorrows, and this sipping of saké constitutes the marriage ceremony.
It is thus supposed to typify a young man breasting the stream of life, and thrusting his way through difficulties to success.
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