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Paris was crowded with people, from all about France, who came to get sight of the venerable dame, and it was a touching spectacle when she moved through these reverent wet-eyed multitudes on her way to the grand honors awaiting her at the cathedral. [5]
For a whole week we lived under the shadow of the spire of the great cathedral. [6]
You're not a weed, but an oak; not a summer-house, but a cathedral. [5]
Long afterwards I was hunting out a paper of Dumeril's in an old journal,--the "Magazin Encyclopedique" for l'an troisieme, (1795,) when I stumbled upon a brief article on the vibrations of the spire of Strasburg Cathedral. [6]
What glorifies a town like a cathedral? [3]
And, sure enough, to-morrow it was a cathedral. [5]
One fears that they may come down in the deep night, and stand at the bedside,--those narrow, canopied beds there in the distance, like the marble couches in the cathedral. [4]
The bones of the Three Kings, by the way, made the fortune of the cathedral. [4]
Our windows at the hotel looked out on the finest front of the cathedral. [4]
They have the skull of John the Baptist in this cathedral. [4]

Short sentences using cathedral

To the cathedral, forward! [10]
The cathedral was finished. [10]

More example sentences with the word cathedral in them

Generation after generation would labour with unflagging zeal until the art sculptured fragment of the new Cathedral--the new Cathedral of Democracy --pointed upward toward the blue vault of heaven. [9]
A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power. [4]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size. [5]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
Our first pilgrimage was to the Church of St. Apollinare Nuova; but why it is called new I do not know, as Theodoric built it for an Arian cathedral in about the year 500. [4]
Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour! [4]
At York we wandered to and through a flower-show, and _did_ the cathedral, as people _do_ all the sights they see under the lead of a paid exhibitor, who goes through his lesson like a sleepy old professor. [6]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
It seemed to transport the listener to the summit of the cathedral, as the choir now called to the ruler that the earth was full of his renown. [10]
The twin stone towers of the unfinished cathedral loom up large in the fading light, and the bishop's palace on the hill--the home of the Bishop of Arichat--appears to be an imposing white barn with many staring windows. [4]
I went back to the little house by the cathedral, and was admitted by the stricken wife. [11]
If one had to name the apple of the eye of England, I think he would be likely to say that Salisbury Cathedral was as near as he could come to it, and that the white of the eye was Salisbury Close. [6]
The dark recesses, those aisles into this cathedral, gave forth no sound, and even the ripplings of the current die away. [5]
Besides the cathedral there were the very lovely cloisters, the noble chapter-house with its central pillar,--this structure has been restored and rejuvenated since my earlier visit,--and there were the peaceful dwellings, where I insist on believing that only virtue and happiness are ever tenants. [6]
Getting free of them, I came on my way, and was glad to reach the cathedral unchallenged. [11]
Little farmers on their way to the market by the Place de Cathedral stopped, listening, though every moment's delay lessened their chances of getting a stand in the market- place. [11]
Yet, even on the worst days, he was busy at his place in the piazza, where the cathedral, which he had been building for three years, was nearing completion. [10]
I once ascended the spire of Strasburg Cathedral, which is the highest, I think, in Europe. [6]
An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me. [5]
Here also stood the palaces of the great nobles and, on the side of the hill which sloped to the lower city, the Cathedral of St. Gudule towered proudly aloft. [10]
I remembered how the omnipresent spire of the great cathedral, three miles away, looked down upon the grounds about the building as if it had been their next-door neighbor. [6]
The sense of the oldness of the Cathedral vanished away under the influence of this truly venerable presence. [5]
The elevation of the nave gives it even that "high-shouldered" appearance which seemed more than anything else to impress Mr. Hawthorne in the cathedral at Amiens. [4]
The spire of the great cathedral had been with me as a frequent presence during the last fifty years of my life, and this second visit has deepened every line of the impression, as Old Mortality refreshed the inscriptions on the tombstones of the Covenanters. [6]
In saying that the exterior of Salisbury Cathedral is more interesting than its interior, I was perhaps unfair to the latter, which only yields to the surpassing claims of the wonderful structure as seen from the outside. [6]
At this rate, the Cologne Cathedral will be finished and decay before this is built. [4]
The prosperity of the cathedral on these valuable bones set all the other churches in the neighborhood on the same track; and one can study right here in this city the growth of relic worship. [4]
They say that the Cathedral of Milan is second only to St. Peter's at Rome. [5]
His remains were taken to the cathedral in Havana. [5]
The cathedral is surrounded by a high wall, the gates of which,--its eyelids,--are closed every night at a seasonable hour, at which the virtuous inhabitants are expected to be in their safe and sacred quarters. [6]
They know their story by heart--the history of every statue, painting, cathedral or other wonder they show you. [5]
The firing was still proceeding when officers, generals, and gentlemen-in-waiting came running out of the cathedral, and after them others in a more leisurely manner: caps were again raised, and those who had run to look at the cannon ran back again. [2]
It was to start from the cathedral square and go to Prebrunn, where it would turn back and disband in front of the Town Hall. [10]
I should be snug here, awaiting the affair in the cathedral on the morrow. [11]
I had a similar twinge of reminiscence at meeting with the name of Gorges, which is perpetuated by a stately monument at the end of the north aisle of the cathedral. [6]
We had already seen "The Descent from the Cross" and "The Raising of the Cross" by Rubens, in the cathedral. [4]
The old cathedral seemed to me particularly mouldy, and in fact too high-flavored with antiquity. [6]
We went to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame. [5]
His kindly nature secretly approved of her spending a longer time in the Cathedral of St. Gudule than usual, praying for the royal sufferer who was so seriously ill. [10]
The subjects are sacred; and with the sacred is mingled the comic, here as at Augsburg, where over one portal of the cathedral, with saints and angels, monkeys climb and gibber. [4]
Over their heads rose the fine new Cathedral, built by the munificence of Don Andreas Almonaster, and beside that the many-windowed, heavy-arched Cabildo, nearly finished, which will stand for all time a monument to Spanish builders. [9]
I like to revel in the dryest details of the great cathedral. [5]
The beadle in red clothes, who stalks about the cathedral like a converted flamingo, offered to open for us the chapel; but we declined a sight of the very bones of the Wise Men. [4]
Rouse the cathedral priests and go to the bishop. [10]
Then come and pray with me in the cathedral, and after that we will cast up accounts--to-morrow," he said, with a poignant and exultant malice. [11]
The blundering fellow poured all his doubts and anxieties into her ear, as if she had been the impassive occupant of one of those little wooden confessionals in the Cathedral on Logan Square. [5]
Soldiers and stragglers passed down the street near by, and a few starved peasants crept about the cathedral with downcast eyes, eager for crumbs that a well-fed soldier might cast aside. [11]
I let her pass, unchecked, and went on towards the cathedral, humming an old French chanson. [11]
And this shifting panorama continues until, towards evening, behold, on a hill, Berne, shining through showers, the old feudal round tower and buildings overhanging the Aar, and the tower of the cathedral over all. [4]
The cathedral was packed with people--people in thousands. [5]
The Cathedral six or seven miles behind us; vast, dreamy, bluish, snow-clad mountains twenty miles in front of us,--these were the accented points in the scenery. [5]
Our house was opposite the north transept, only separated by the road in front of it from the cathedral grounds. [6]
Then, at last, on the halcyon air of that summer day floated the Angelus from the cathedral tower. [11]
At the descent of the high steep hill, down which a winding road led out of the town past the cathedral on the right, where a service was being held and the bells were ringing, Pierre got out of his vehicle and proceeded on foot. [2]
In coming out of the cathedral, on the Sunday I just mentioned, a gentleman addressed me as a fellow-countryman. [6]
The poor canon of the cathedral of Paris was spiked again. [5]
The old Cathedral of San Lorenzo is about as notable a building as we have found in Genoa. [5]
The main point of interest about the cathedral is the little Chapel of St. John the Baptist. [5]
I have heard of his opening his inmost thoughts to a lady, one Sunday, after a noble sermon of Robertson's had been read in the cathedral stillness of the forest. [4]
Since the spire of Chichester Cathedral fell in 1861, sheathing itself in its tower like a sword dropping into its scabbard, one can hardly help looking with apprehension at all these lofty fabrics. [6]
I told her of all I had seen at the cathedral and at the convent, what my plans had been, and then I waited for her answer. [11]
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]
Indeed, there is no church in Munich, except the old cathedral, the Frauenkirche, with its high Gothic arches, stained windows, and dusty old carvings, that gives one at all the sort of feeling that it is supposed a church should give. [4]
We spent a night at Amiens, and had several hours for the old cathedral, the sunset light on its noble front and towers and spire and flying buttresses, and the morning rays bathing its rich stone. [4]
I hurried through narrow streets to the cathedral. [11]
Salisbury Cathedral was my first love among all the wonderful ecclesiastical buildings which I saw during my earlier journey. [6]
It has a mouldy old cathedral, an old wall, partly Roman, strange old houses with overhanging upper floors, which make sheltered sidewalks and dark basements. [6]
But there are monuments in this cathedral which excite curiosity, and others which awaken the most striking associations. [6]
We are not met in a cathedral, except so far as every building whose walls are lined with the products of useful and ennobling thought is a temple of the Almighty, whose inspiration has given us understanding. [3]
At last four men in uniforms and sashes emerged from the cathedral doors. [2]
The spangling stars made the arch of the sky like some gorgeous chancel in a cathedral as vast as life and time. [11]
This soldier was looking at the cathedral and crossing himself. [2]
At Courtrai, we looked into Notre Dame, a thirteenth century cathedral, which has a Vandyke ("The Raising of the Cross"), and the chapel of the Counts of Flanders, where workmen were uncovering some frescoes that were whitewashed over in the war-times. [4]
And all night long Rheims was hard at work, hammering away, decorating the town, building triumphal arches and clothing the ancient cathedral within and without in a glory of opulent splendors. [5]
Down below, the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling masses of Russian troops. [2]
Thus, then, our library is a temple as truly as the dome-crowned cathedral hallowed by the breath of prayer and praise, where the dead repose and the living worship. [3]
I do not know what a canon of a cathedral is, but that is what he was. [5]
That at Milan is scarcely finished yet; the unfinished spires of the Cologne cathedral are one of the best-known features of it. [4]
And the cathedral in which the lovers were to be united was the church of St. Sophia at Constantinople, of which she had heard so much. [10]
I can _be_ in those places where I passed days and nights, and became habituated to the sight of the cathedral, or of the Church of the Holy Trinity, at morning, at noon, at evening, whenever I turned my eyes in its direction. [6]
There was enough in the old town besides the cathedral to interest us,--old buildings, a museum, full of curious objects, and the old town itself. [6]
Her wedding ceremony in the cathedral was, of course, performed by the court-chaplain Strauss. [10]
He saw them in cathedral forests, with the red hair long upon their bodies. [9]
We spent an impressive hour in the noble cathedral, where long shafts of tinted light were cleaving through the solemn dimness from the lofty windows and falling on a pillar here, a picture there, and a kneeling worshiper yonder. [5]
Near the Cathedral I saw another instance of probity. [5]
They examined, with him, the interior of the cathedral, and then appeared the prince for whom George had built the church, and to him the architects explained how solid and well proportioned was the dome which had been finished a few hours before. [10]
I need not here say anything more of the cathedral, except that its perfect exterior is hardly equalled in beauty by its interior, which looks somewhat bare and cold. [6]
Yet finding it here had at first something of the effect of the discovery of an office-building--let us say--on the site of the Reims Cathedral. [9]
We have glimpses, here and there and yonder, through the dim cathedral twilight, of portions of many galleries and balconies, wedged full with other people, the other portions of these galleries and balconies being cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections. [5]
The name of Herbert, which we have met with in the cathedral, and which belongs to the Earls of Pembroke, presents itself to us once more in a very different and very beautiful aspect. [6]
She lived with her uncle Fulbert, a canon of the cathedral of Paris. [5]
Thus Barbara was heard and known in larger circles, and she had the pleasure of hearing her admirable training and excellent method of delivery praised by the director of the choir of the Cathedral of Saint Bavon, one of the greatest musicians in the Netherlands. [10]
He dreamed that he was under the high arches of an old cathedral, amidst a throng of worshippers. [6]
When this vision has faded, I will return to the silence of the lovely Close and the shadow of the great Cathedral. [6]
The city was hardly waking as yet, but straight silver columns of smoke rolled up out of many chimneys, and the golden cross on the cathedral caught the first rays of the sun. [11]
It is not hard to see that one of these grand towers is somewhat larger than the other, but the difference does not interfere with the effect of the imposing front of the cathedral. [6]
He knew my handwriting, and he would guess where to-morrow would find me, for I had also hastily drawn upon the paper the entrance of the cathedral. [11]
A rich cathedral gloom pervades the pillared aisles; so the stray flecks of sunlight that strike a trunk here and a bough yonder are strongly accented, and when they strike the moss they fairly seem to burn. [5]

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