When such visitations happen, the event is sure to develop heroic deeds.
The mind opened more and more to regard the trials sent by God as means of ennobling the character,(358) and the men of the Talmudic period often speak of the afflictions of the saints as "visitations of the divine love.
This standpoint, never reached even by the pious sufferer Job, is attained by rabbinic Judaism when it calls the visitationsof the righteous "trials of the divine love.
In the purity and simplicity of her soul, she feared that the supernatural visitations of God might after all be nothing else but delusions of Satan.
Thus the most likely source for increased interaction would appear to be the increased visitations by charter/pleasure craft in 1978.
I recalled all the stories of mysterious rappings and ghostly visitations I had read or heard of.
Telepathy is a logical explanation of many of the ghostly visitations of which the Society for Psychical Research has collected such a mass of data.
Referring again to the Savior: unbelievers marvel that Jesus confined his visitations after his resurrection to a few of his faithful followers only--to those who already believed on him.
In the Visitations but few instances can be found in which the arms of peers are included.
This family at the time of the Visitations exhibited a certain coat of arms and crest.
The armorial control of the heralds after the days of tournaments was exercised through the Visitations and the Earl Marshal's Court.
In the same way many families who had never used crests, but who had used badges, took the opportunity of the Visitations to record their badges as crests.
With rare exceptions, no mottoes are to be met with in the Visitation books, and it does not appear that at the time of the Visitations the motto was considered to be essentially a part of the armorial bearings.
If a family at the time of the Visitations had two crests recorded to them, these would be now allowed.
This case is that of the family of Buckworth, who at the time of the Visitations exhibited arms and crest.
In the early Visitations we get instances of six, eight, and even a larger number, and the start once being made, and the number of four relinquished, there was of course no reason why it should not be extended indefinitely.
The forerunner of each day's visitations was a calm season of private devotion during morning hours.
But it was, above all, to the children of God that his visitations seemed blessed.
Such visitations as these did indeed prove whether the pastors of the afflicted flock were shepherds or hirelings.
These dreadful visitations were rendered more frequent by total disregard of all precautions, and ignorance of laws for preserving health.
The last of these remarkablevisitations of the plague, properly so called, was at Marseilles, in 1721.
There was at the time a general sorrowing throughout the country, at the avenging visitations wherewith all those who had been in the raid, or who had harboured the fugitives, were visited.
Such had been the character of the widow's visitations to the chest, though no one knew anything of her discoveries, not even her sister-relict, neighbour Stone.
Man is a very different being in high prosperity from what he becomes when the blows of an evil fortune, or the visitations of Divine Providence alight upon him.
Sidenote: The proofs] To these general considerations we have also to add the direct positive evidence in connexion with Cardinal Morton's visitations of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VII.
First came a drought; then three visitations of locusts, one after the other, which so completely stripped the fields that "nothing was left but a few prematurely dry stalks and straw.
It has not been possible to show the tracks of totality of these two early visitationson account of the distortion of the polar regions consequent on the fiction of Mercator's Projection.
These sudden visitations have in our day received the name of Novæ; that is to say, "New" Stars.
Poetry redeems from decay the visitationsof the divinity in man.
In such visitations the elephants suffer severely, not only those at liberty in the forest, but those carefully tended in the government stables.
The volcano had found the women with the children, as all manner of visitations find them--and the men a little apart.
The dreadful visitations were all but erased, as pass the spectres of delirium.
In a few months the visitations were finished, and the reports of the visitors were presented to Cromwell.
To bring home to the minds of the bishops the meaning of royal supremacy, he suspended their visitations while the royal visitors were at work.
Unfortunately the accounts of the visitations have disappeared to a great extent except in case of the diocese of Norwich.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visitations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
