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Example sentences for "crucifix"

Lexicographically close words:
crucifers; crucifie; crucified; crucifiers; crucifies; crucifixes; crucifixion; crucifixions; crucifixus; cruciform
  1. The country shortly changed to a scene of wonderful richness and beauty, resembling the finest parts of Devonshire; but the view of an immense crucifix rising picturesquely amid the woods gave it a foreign character at once.

  2. Her eyes overflowed with tears again, and, kneeling before the place where the crucifix stood, she once more had recourse to prayer.

  3. The sole furniture it contained was a stool, a table bearing a crucifix and a closed book, and the pallet on which she lay.

  4. Annie with a sob that seemed to pierce Alice's stupor held up the ivory crucifix and the eyes of her dying mistress fixed upon it.

  5. Kimberly took the crucifix in silence and as Annie hurried away he buried his head again in his arms.

  6. It is impossible to repress a smile upon noticing that the Crucifixion scene which bears the portrait of its donor, Guy de Laval, shows him kneeling in the central panel, while the crucifix is in a side one!

  7. Rising from the parapet at the highest point of the bridge is a crucifix up the back of which runs a wire ending over the head of Christ in an incandescent electric light!

  8. The reckless muleteers devoutly crossed themselves ere they ventured to pass over the little bridge; some even prostrated themselves before a crucifix rudely carved in wood that stood overhanging it.

  9. A crucifix stands by the wayside in the foreground, right.

  10. Around her neck she wears a coloured ribbon from which a crucifix hangs down.

  11. One day she showed me her crucifix and kissed it, and thereupon I took a little silver crucifix that always stood by me, and kissed that, and so she knew that we were one in religion.

  12. I in broken words and with tears in my eyes, gave her the little silver crucifix that had stood by my bed or my table for so many years.

  13. On examining their prize, the Grand Captain, they found that she was laden with eighteen hundred jars of wine, upwards of twenty five thousand pesos of gold, and a crucifix of gold set with emeralds.

  14. He took from a drawer a little crucifix of iron.

  15. He flung himself down on his knees before the crucifix in a quick reaction of mood, extending his hands and trying to pray; but he found himself repeating over and over: "For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.

  16. He sat down heavily, staring with hot eyes at the crucifix opposite.

  17. Wynne seized his rosary with one hand, and struck it across the other so hard that the corner of the crucifix wounded his finger.

  18. The familiar words of the office of confession made him beat his breast, and fall in prayer before the crucifix which seemed to waver in the flickering candlelight.

  19. Turning round, he saw a stout personage, who from his black robe, huge hat with flaps turned up at the sides, and rosary with crucifix suspended from his neck, he knew to be one of the Spanish priests.

  20. A taper burnt before a crucifix suspended to the wall; and near it hung a scourge, from which last mentioned object Flora averted her eyes with horror.

  21. But still she was determined to be completely satisfied; and, drawing forth a small but exquisitely sculptured crucifix from her doublet, she presented it to her lover.

  22. And, as he uttered these words, he pressed to his lips an ivory crucifix of exquisite workmanship, which he took from the table.

  23. At the further end there was an altar, surmounted by a crucifix of ebony, and lighted up with four wax candles, which only served to render the gloom of the entire scene more apparent.

  24. Ten times a day I went to the crucifix by which he had wished me to swear and knelt down before it to pray.

  25. In a niche in one corner of the room was a prie-dieu chair, and a beautiful crucifix in ebony and ivory, with a small shell, containing holy water, hung upon the wall.

  26. He unfastened the crucifix from a small golden chain to which it was attached.

  27. There can be no higher nor holier altar than this," said he, touching the crucifix adoringly with his lips; "the Holy Father in Rome has consecrated it with his apostolic blessing.

  28. The flowers still bloomed in her room, the crucifix stood in the niche, and at its feet lay the case which held the withered rose.

  29. At the door we bought a string of beads, with a small crucifix appended, in memory of the place.

  30. They never failed to mutter a prayer and kiss the crucifix whenever we plunged into a tunnel.

  31. He glanced up at the crucifix and his cursing abruptly stopped.

  32. He wondered if the approaching person would stop before the crucifix or would go on.

  33. Slowly he realized that the gloom-merged mass of the crucifix had been seen and that the feet were coming toward it.

  34. It was a crucifix with a dead Christ upon it.

  35. From its chancel arch was hung a crucifix of gold-lacquer, where the declining sun, shining through the stained glass of the rose-window, each evening touched it to shimmering color.

  36. He said that perhaps that Virgin on the hills might still be looking far out over the waters, and he knelt before a little crucifix which hung from a nail in the rough boards of the walls.

  37. But then an expression of pain came also, that made me involuntarily look at Frenchy's little crucifix on the wall.

  38. He hurried to the library; but in a passage he encountered the bishop Dorotheus, in sacerdotal dress, bearing the crucifix and the sacred Viaticum.

  39. It was a life-sized crucifix which Baruch had not seen before.

  40. The black friar knelt beside the dying one, and drawing an ivory crucifix from his habit held it to Mendoza's face.

  41. Then the Pope so regretted the loss of the crucifix that he promised to pardon Giotto if he would paint him another as good.

  42. I shall, however, tell you of one excellent thing that he did, which was to make the representation of the crucifix far more refined and Christ-like than it had ever been.

  43. Giotto gave a gentle face, full of suffering, it is true, but also expressive of tenderness and resignation, and it would not be easy to paint a better crucifix than those of this master.

  44. When about to die Cano would not receive the sacrament from the priest who was present, because he had communicated with Jews, and when a rude crucifix was held before him he pushed it away.

  45. You must swear by the crucifix and these holy pictures not to betray me.

  46. Who can look upon the crucifix or upon a picture of the Crucifixion without being reminded of all the sufferings of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?

  47. Waring saw a little silver crucifix gleaming against the smooth brown of his chest.

  48. His hand drifted up to the little silver crucifix on his breast.

  49. As he went through his pockets he came upon the little silver crucifix and transferred it, with some loose change, to his riding-breeches.

  50. For a moment he stood looking at the little crucifix shining on the palm of his hand.

  51. Turning, he could distinguish Ramon, who fingered the crucifix at his throat.

  52. The Mexicans were asleep; young Ramon lying face down beneath the crucifix on the wall, where he had knelt in prayer most of the night.

  53. And as Ramon spoke he touched the little crucifix on his breast.

  54. And Ramon drew the little silver crucifix from his shirt and pressed it in Waring's hand.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crucifix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ankh; ark; beads; candle; censer; chi; crisscross; cross; crossbones; crucifix; cruet; crux; dagger; garment; icon; phylactery; relic; rood; rosary; sacramental; sprinkler; swastika; tabernacle