Word: altare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to distinguish them from the blue sky above is another question. As a matter of fact they are so high now that they are beyond his low line of vision and have floated there since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. nay since Abel built his altar which was sometime...
...Pierre Patou in three shades of soft grey Pyrenees marble, with strange, geometric, golden glass lighting by Lalique. On Sunday Mr. Herrick found that he might worship in a chapel, two stories high, done with emboine panels upon lemonwood by Nelson et Simon, who had placed upon the altar an ultra-modern crucifix in molded glass, blazing from concealed lamps...
...flock the archbishop gave instructions how to perform self-marriage without benefit of priest: "Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the cross and recite the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then standing before the altar the bridegroom will say 'I - before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Señ0rita -as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes.'" The girl says the equivalent...
Eleven-year-old Uldine sat within the enchanting tent. She fidgeted, became still, swayed in her seat and slid from underneath grandpappy's hand . . . started forth toward the coaxing smiles and silvery sounding voice of the revivalist . . . out into the aisle . . . straight to the altar and down on her knees before Aimee, wanting to know how to be a Christian...
...along the funeral way. The hearse, 23 ft. long, 12 ft. high and 12 ft. wide rumbled forth, drawn by oxen, and emitting from its wooden wheel-hubs four differently pitched notes: "the sacred mournful sounds." When the great funeral pavilion was reached, the body was placed upon an altar and the Emperor bowed low before it. Picking up a branch of evergreen he placed it on the altar, beside the body, thus symbolizing that the dead Emperor had gone to everlasting life. Three times His Majesty sprinkled incense upon live coals. Three times he bowed to his dead father...