For fair Enipeus, as from fruitful urns He pours his watery store, the virgin burns; Smooth flows the gentle stream with wanton pride, And in soft mazes rolls a silver tide.
The disposition of the urns is curious: they are imbedded in the masonry of the wall with moveable lids.
It brought down all the mugs and urns and condensed-milk tins with a run; and that day we did see the Baptist at our mid-day board.
Zeyn led her to the closet, down the marble stairs, and into the chamber where the urns were.
My father," rejoined Zeyn, "had a subterraneous place under his closet, in which I have found forty porphyry urns full of gold.
Four urns and a farmer whetting his scythe adorn the top.
Almost every conceivable domestic utensil was made of pewter as well as garden ornaments, and it is interesting to note, in connection with the latter, that severalurns were designed by the brothers Adam.
Many of these latter yet contain the urns in which the ashes of the dead were deposited.
All the ladies of the parish were acting as attendants, or presiding at the urns on each table.
Huge urns of tea ready mixed with the milk and sugar, were being carried up the stone stairs to the big schoolroom by willing hands.
The instances in which there are both places for bodies and urns are perhaps more numerous than those for urns only.
Of such urnswere found an immense number in all the pre-Hellenic strata on the hill.
There are urns of which the borders are too prominent and too decorated for use, and which appear to be brought out chiefly for state, at grand carousals.
Allow me to believe as all my fathers did, and to contemplate not only the sepulchre in which their urns are placed, but the same dim regions in which many dear shades expect the greeting of a descendant.
For Latium this is proved by the sepulchral hut-urns found at Alba and also on the Esquiline.
Copper and metal urns were frequently conspicuous on the sideboard, although many of the small tables so much treasured now as antiques in the drawing-room were originally made for urns to stand upon.
In 1707 he published An Account of Roman Urns and Antiquities lately dug up near Bishopsgate, addressed to Sir C.
In the same row and deeper were Roman urns intermixed.
During this time the assistants of Typhon brought four great urns adorned with the heads of the gods Hape, Emset, Duamut and Quebhsneuf, and in each of those urns he placed some internal organ of the deceased pharaoh.
One of theurns was of gold, another of amber, and the third of clay.
He ordered to be set before them three urns under seal.
The king bade the eldest of his sons choose among the urns that which appeared to him to contain the treasure of greatest price.
The Wolga, the Don, and the Nieper, were there, or their representative River Gods; and Father Thames clubbed urns with the Vistula.
The endless rows of tombs upon the Via Appia vary from simple piers and subterranean burial-chambers (called columbaria, from the thousands of niches for funeral urns resembling the nests of doves) to colossal mausoleums.
The covers of these urns were fastened with molten lead.
These urns are of the most elaborate kind, carved in white marble, with festoons hanging from bulls' heads, and birds of various kinds eating fruit.
The pious devotion of the Romans towards the dead caused them to pay frequent visits to their tombs, especially on anniversaries, when the urns were decorated with flowers, libations were offered, and other ceremonies performed.
Some of the urns are round, some square, the motive of the decoration being the same for all of them.
The same difficulty was experienced when cinerary urns had to be placed in their niches; and the funeral tablets and memorials containing the name, age, condition, etc.
It is square in shape, with two recesses for cinerary urns on each side, and three in the front wall.
During his episcopacy, the cathedral received some questionable adornments, including the "Grecian" urns in the niches of the reredos, now fortunately removed.
It is curious to note an attempt, during the rage for pseudo-classic architecture in the last century, to beautify the reredos by placing sham funeral urns in its niches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
