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Sentences ending with altar

At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
You, not he, will be priest at the altar. [11]
The pope's choir was stationed in a gallery there opposite the high altar. [4]
The dear members wanted to greet me with escort and the ringing of bells, but I declined, and went alone in my carriage to the church, entered it, and knelt in thanks upon the steps of its altar. [5]
He smiled, then turned his head away, for old memories flashed through his brain--he had been an acolyte once; he had served at the altar. [11]
I command you to come to Mass next Sunday, to repent and to hear your penance given from the altar. [11]
Like great seats the steppes of snow ranged round, and in the centre was a kind of plateau of ice, as it might seem a stage or an altar. [11]
The scheme for the railway looked very promising to him, and he was in good humour; so that all he said about Jean Jacques was free from that general irritation of spirit which has sacrificed many a small man on a big man's altar. [11]
I knew then that it was her soul I loved most; I had been swept all unwittingly to its very altar. [9]
It was a strange meeting they had in St. Xavier's, by the light of the candles on the altar. [9]

More example sentences with the word altar in them

Ah, wilt thou yet return, Bearing thy rose-hued torch, and bid thine altar burn? [6]
Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
At mid-day I will go with you and help fill the jars for the altar, and later in the day I can accompany you in the procession which was postponed from yesterday. [10]
Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. [11]
But shall Charmian--who, when her heart throbbed still more warmly and life lay fair before her, laid her first love upon the altar of sacrifice for her royal playfellow--abandon Cleopatra in misfortune from mere selfish scruples? [10]
What a study was this varied, mixed, flaunting life, this dance of pleasure and license before the very altar of the church, for the writers of satire, comedy, and tragedy! [4]
None, at least, was so fervent a defender of the faith, so punctilious in all observances, so constant at the altar rail; none so versed in rubrics, ritual, and canon law; none had such a knowledge of the Church fathers. [9]
His sinful eye was dazzled and he hid himself behind an altar, with an evil purpose in his heart, but a priest discovered him and turned him out. [5]
A pious seer was charged to tell him more exactly what this was; and he would meet him if he went at about sunset to the shrine of Isis, and called three times on the name of Severus before the altar of the goddess. [10]
In the midst was a silver table-ornament, something similar to an altar, from which arose fragrant clouds of incense. [10]
He recognized the vessel, flew aboard, surprised the wedding party at the altar and exclaimed: "Stop the proceedings--I'm here! [5]
Presently he advanced towards the altar rail --he was accustomed to do this with his little flock--and placing one hand on the lectern, began to speak. [4]
One day he took the countess to a Roman Catholic church, where she knelt down before the altar to which she was led. [2]
Joan's Voices had told her that there was an ancient sword hidden somewhere behind the altar of St. Catherine's at Fierbois, and she sent De Metz to get it. [5]
Flattery from man to woman is expected: it is a part of the courtesy of society; but when the divinity descends from the altar to burn incense to the priest, what wonder if the idolater should feel himself transformed into a god! [6]
It was nothing to them that I, a stranger, must be sacrificed upon the altar of their unholy ambition. [5]
Well, I went to the altar first. [11]
The Cure turned to the altar and raised the bag towards it in ascription and thanksgiving, then he turned to Parpon again, but the dwarf was trotting away down the aisle and from the church. [11]
Then follow me to prayer at the altar of Amon, and then-to battle. [10]
He had hoped to loiter in a doorway there, and to empty his sailor's heart in well-practised admiration before the altar of village beauty. [11]
It never occurred to him that these still waters ran deep, that to awaken this seemingly glacial nature, to kindle a fire on this altar, would be to secure unto his life's end a steady, enduring flame of devotion. [11]
Without a word they went upon that platform, shaped like an altar, and Pierre at once drew out a pack of cards, shuffling them with his mittened hands. [11]
In this altar they used to keep one of the most curious relics that human eyes ever looked upon--a thing that had power to fascinate the beholder in some mysterious way and keep him gazing for hours together. [5]
How few of them availed themselves of their spiritual birthright to renew their lives at the altar rail! [9]
He says to thee that he would lay his heart upon the altar of Egypt? [11]
Orion assisted at the service in the place reserved for the men of his family, close to the hekel, or holy of holies, where the altar stood and the priests performed their functions. [10]
Every city in the Empire shall raise an altar to Antinous, and the friend of whom you have robbed me I will make your equal and companion. [10]
Let him put the creature in a basket on the donkey's back, and then he can quickly carry it to the temple--at once and without delay, for, if I don't find it on the goddess's altar in an hour, you shall answer for it! [10]
Hear him, concerning the church of Ara Coeli: "In the roof of the church, directly above the high altar, is engraved, 'Regina Coeli laetare Alleluia. [5]
The carpet in the chancel and the hassocks at the altar would make a good bed. [11]
Underneath it, at the back of the altar, an oil light is always burning; and below repose the bones of the holy man. [4]
We vowed at the altar, that nothing save death should part us. [10]
And, standing at the altar, Jim's eyes were still wet, with new resolves in his heart and a being at his side meant for the best man in the world. [11]
Though when to the altar a victim I go, Aunt Tabitha'll tell me she never did so! [6]
It was expected that the Cure would speak of the Rebellion from the altar this morning. [11]
Its altar, like that of all the Greek churches, is a lofty screen that extends clear across the chapel, and is gorgeous with gilding and pictures. [5]
I tell you, that if, instead of raw Boston sailors, ploughmen and merchant captains, and fishing craft and trading vessels, I had three English war-ships and one thousand men, I would level your town from the citadel to the altar of St. Joseph's. [11]
In the middle stood a great sacrificial altar, on which burned logs of cedar wood, whilst fragrant balls of Kyphi [Kyphi was a celebrated Egyptian incense. [10]
De Cure he stan' at de altar, and he read a letter from de Pope, which say dat Mathurin his penance is over, and he is forgive; dat de Pope himself pray for Mathurin, to save his soul. [11]
She saw her son go to this hopeless conflict like a garlanded victim to the altar. [10]
In a moment somebody knocked three times on the door: it opened, and the procession returned, and moved again to the rear of the altar, the singers marching with it and chanting. [4]
From your smooth skin there I could strip those rags, and call upon them all to look at you--my wife--a felon's wife; mine to have and to hold--to hold, you hear!--as it was sworn at the altar. [11]
Then, with a sigh: "He sent me two hundred dollars for the altar to-day, and fifty dollars to buy new cassocks for myself. [11]
How often had she flown hither from her home near at hand to pour oil on the altar of the god of healing--to make some small offering and find comfort in prayer! [10]
The Cure had sent for Jo to do some last work upon a little altar, to be used the next day for the first time. [11]
Has any one seen her since, at break of day, she placed the first libation from the Well of the Sun on the altar of the god? [10]
The town dignitaries sat in an impressive row within the altar railings below. [5]
Under the altar repose the ashes of St. Mark--and Matthew, Luke and John, too, for all I know. [5]
Just as many regard it as an act of piety to work an altar cloth or to cushion a pulpit. [4]
The gout would really have prohibited him from kneeling before the altar, whence the agonized face of the crucified Redeemer, carved in ivory by a great Florentine master, gazed at him, but he took this torture upon himself. [10]
The procession having reached its destination, and disappeared behind the altar of the dome, the pope dismounted, and took his seat on his throne. [4]
I shall be punished if the water-jar is not standing on the altar by sunrise, and there is Klea's too to be filled. [10]
Then came the pitiful Revolution, the sundering of all ties, the elder man left to drag out his few weary days before a shattered altar. [9]
Hannah's pessimism would persist as far as the altar, and beyond! [9]
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. [7]
And flying in open day in the sight of all men, lays it upon the altar of the sun, and so returns from whence it came. [5]
If there is one who desires to go, let him come and shake hands upon the altar of devotion, and swear that he will be a hero; yes, a Hector in a cause like this, which calls aloud for a speedy remedy. [5]
More than half of them are stripped of honor and dignity on your altar of vengeance, and thrust into the arms of repulsive avarice. [10]
At one side of the table was a small carpet with various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. [2]
A silver image of the saint, half life-size, stands upon the rich marble altar. [4]
Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. [2]
A huge altar of silver had been raised on an artificial hill. [10]
On the altar of Serapis, whither she next went, she found both the vessels, and carried them back to her room. [10]
But the altar of our country sir--' 'You'll have a hackney-coach, I suppose? [12]
In the city of Montreal fourscore men are kneeling in a little church, as the mass is slowly chanted at the altar. [11]
Unlike many men of indulgent natures, he loved youth for the sake of his art, and he had sacrificed upon that altar more than most men-sacrificed others. [11]
In the day of darkness these came and laid what they had at the foot of the altar of sacrifice. [11]
Suppose a party of armed foreigners were to enter a village church in America and break ornaments from the altar railings for curiosities, and climb up and walk upon the Bible and the pulpit cushions? [5]
In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. [5]
Says Isaac, 'Oh, nothing particular; only, can they pray-down fire from heaven on an altar? [5]
Says Isaac, "Oh, nothing particular; only, can they pray down fire from heaven on an altar? [5]
True, they did not venture into the cathedral, probably from fear of his Majesty the Emperor, and whoever had undertaken to lay hands upon the altar painting and the Madonna in our chapel would have paid for it--I am not boasting--with his life. [10]
If Serapis does not grant some fool the thing he asks, then he turns to the altar of Isis, of Anubis, of Zeus, of Demeter. [10]
Heaven's decrees will not fade; I will write again--I will try again; and if it traverses a gory field, I pray forgiveness at the altar of justice. [5]
And of course no one doubted that by supernatural help miracles had been done by Joan, such as choosing out the King in a crowd when she had never seen him before, and her discovery of the sword buried under the altar. [5]
My heart is no filthy ditch of shame; but it was breaking when I came from the altar with him yesterday. [11]
Barine started, but neither inquired the cause of the noise nor perceived the wealth of objects here presented to the senses; for the man who, leaning on another's arm, approached the altar, was Dion, the lover who had perilled his life for her sake. [10]
Tell Donna Anna, my adored betrothed, that I would fain lead her to the altar early to-morrow morning, for the d'Avennes are influential and the following day my safety will perhaps be imperilled. [10]
The organ was muttering, censers were swinging, candles were glinting on the distant altar and robed priests were filing silently past them; the scene was one to sweep all frivolous thoughts away and steep the soul in a holy calm. [5]
I warn you, Mr. Parr, in his Name, first to make your peace with your brothers before you presume to lay another gift on the altar. [9]
How high the moon is already; come to rest--Antonius is to place the altar in the early dawn, and I wish to be present. [10]
If he had married her secretly and left her at the altar, so keeping the vow he had made her when she promised to become his wife, that might have been pardonable. [11]
The fire had made good headway with the flooring, and had also made progress in the chancel and the altar. [11]
When I entered, M. Gambetta was laying his last lock of hair upon the altar. [5]
Now the flowers lay unheeded upon the little altar at the end of the large room, lighted only by a single lamp; for the ladies had left it with their guest. [10]
She had felt it--ah, how many times since the night she found Adrian Fellowes' white rose on her pillow, laid there by the man she had sworn at the altar to love, honor, and obey! [11]
Like the altar, it was enwreathed with flowers, and a garland of roses or myrtle had been twined around the goblet of each guest. [10]
For glimpses of it they had caught Beyond the curtains when the priests That served the altar came and went. [5]
Every pure spot, it seems to me, may be the chosen sanctuary of some divinity, and is not an infant's soul purer than the altar where truth is mocked at? [10]
You can see it in her air the moment she walks away from the altar, keeping step to Mendelssohn's tune. [4]
Behind the altar is the massive sarcophagus of marble (its cover of silver plates was long ago torn off) in which are literally the ashes of the empress. [4]
Under the tribune is the crypt, where the body of St. Apollinaris used to lie (it is now under the high altar above); and as I desired to see where he used to rest, I walked in. [4]
In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. [5]
Nay, I stole into her temple, bought spices, plundered our little garden for her, anointed her altar, and brought flowers for offerings. [10]
The steep hillside in the foreground was spread with the misty green of olive trees, and beyond--far beyond--a snow-covered peak, like some high altar, flamed red in the sunset. [9]
Prepare the catafalque in St. Martin's church, and place it before the altar! [10]
Whilst Heinz knelt in front of the chapel without noticing Sister Perpetua, who was praying before the altar within, these thoughts darted through Eva's brain like a flash of lightning. [10]
I see in imagination the Catholic sovereigns prostrating themselves before the altar, and pouring forth thanks for their victory; while the vaults resound with sacred minstrelsy and the deep-toned Te Deum. [4]

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