Word: prie
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...John Paul will prostrate himself before the altar. At other times he will sit or kneel with eyes closed, his forehead cradled in his left hand, his face contorted intensely, as if in pain. At this time, too, he brings to his God the prayer requests of others. His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest. It lifts up, and underneath there is a small container for a couple of prayer books and a big stack of intentions, written on yellow sheets. Last month the stack was 200 sheets thick...
...style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type as Novelist James Jones also has decorated his Paris duplex with Louis XIII. "Yeah, I just like old medieval furniture," he says. He has turned a real pulpit into a bar and a prie-dieu into a barstool. "I like big, heavy stuff," Jones says...
Regarding degrees of orchestral discipline: Charles Munch would say to his men, "Messieurs, je vous en prie...
...Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis, me touchent projondément et je vous prie de croire que je suis très sensible à la chaleur de votre accueil...
...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...