Word: altare
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...heavens and through the roof came the bride-Peggy Wood, all dressed up in wedding clothes (running away at the altar). Like the heroine of the Three Wise Fools, her arrival is the signal for things to happen and happen they...
...fact that the majority are condemned to the specific lies, it would seem, the strongest possible argument for the widest dissemination of those generalities which approach truth from both sides. The impact may bring war, as it did. When it took place near, the altar on the east wall, but it may also produce a Cromwell and a Harry Vane. And, as Carlyle would assert, it is the hero who directs traffic at the corners of the world...
...cardinal's hat is suspended by golden wires over the high altar in his cathedral. There it remains till it accompanies his body to the tomb...
There was a long procession. Censers swung continually. The celebrant of the mass was censed. So was the 'deacon and the subdeacon. The Gospel was held by the subdeacon, with two taper bearers on either hand, and was read by the deacon, first on one side of the altar and then on the other. The Bishop's ring was kissed. The Bishop and sacred ministers were censed. The sacred host and chalice were raised high at the sound of the sacring bell. Before the altar the ministers were prostrate, while kneeling acolytes elevated waxen tapers that flamed. Then...
...Altar...