Returning down Via Cavour, if we turn into Via Ventisette Aprile we come to two more desecrated convents,--that of S.
As you come into this desecrated and ruined cloister littered with rubbish, among which here and there you may see some quaint or charming thing, it is difficult to remember S.
But no doubt it would be difficult to remind oneself tactfully of those one has robbed, and a Venetian Jew looks more in place before a desecrated convent than S.
Turning down Via di Pinti to the left, and then to the right along Via Alfani, we pass another desecrated monastery in S.
It is to another desecrated Benedictine convent you come when, passing through Via dei Pilastrati and turning into Via Farina, you come at last in Via della Colonna to S.
Before us is thedesecrated convent of the Servites, now turned into a school, and the Church of SS.
Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, however, no longer lies in this desecrated convent, for the little nuns have carried it away to their new home in Piazza Savonarola.
The Palace, it must be confessed, was a mass of somewhat tawdry buildings, mostly of wood and of no great antiquity, desecrated by corrugated iron roofs, yet of interest as a unique specimen of Burmese domestic architecture.
Passing between banks clad with dense forest, wedesecrated with steam and smoke silent reaches glamorous with romance.
The abbot received the rectory of Dalton, so near the desecrated abbey that he might have heard, to his torment, the crash of its falling towers.
The militant Presbyterians wreaked their piety most of all upon the Cathedral, leaving it roofless, its splendid glass all shattered, its brasses wrenched away, its altars desecrated and torn down.
For several centuries they have devoted themselves to commerce and the arts of peace, and in the enthusiasm of their business have desecrated one or two churches into tanneries.
Those solemn woodland aisles and quiet glades were desecrated by marchings and campings, and in the ravines and recesses lay the corpses of men in uniforms, the grim remains of peasants who had been born three thousand miles away.
A reforming bishop of evil memory, Henry Holbech, further desecrated the church, destroying images and monuments, so that in 1548 there was scarcely a whole figure or tomb remaining.
They broke the windows and woodwork, desecrated shrines, and paid much attention to this statue of their king.
Few churches have passed through such stormy scenes as Dunkeld, and its ruined state is a melancholy testimony to the lawlessness of the tumultuous times, which have left their mark upon its desecrated walls.
Once more we went through the north doorway and gazed down upon San Pedro, the desecrated church, the ancient town walls, and ruined citadel crowning the slopes.
A long, broad flight of steps led up to an ancient church now desecrated and turned into barracks.
Following his intent gaze, our eyes rested upon a slight, graceful figure in the dress of a Religieuse, flitting silently through the small square beside the desecrated church.
Near it was a smaller, equally ancient church, now desecrated and turned into a carpenter's shop.
San Pedro was conspicuous, and just beyond it the short octagon of the desecrated church.
You honour me with your presence and bring back a sacred atmosphere to this desecrated building," he said to the priest.
Without the ancient walls we traced the remains of the citadel; and within them the yet more ancient churches of San Pedro and its desecrated companion.
Is it not known everywhere how he desecrated the Sabbath; how he has misled the people by his seditious speeches?
I will that this desecrated place be restored to the worship of the Father!
Now Shahrbarz desecrated the church and took off the "True Cross" to Persia.
The Church of St.-Pierre was then a collegiate church, but it was turned over to the worship of the Supreme Being invented by Robespierre, desecrated and defaced and left in a deplorable state.
They desecrated its churches, turning Notre-Dame into a saltpetre factory, stealing the church bells to sell them, pulling down the steeples and towers, and defacing the monuments.
But they desecrated the building and defaced it as much as they dared.
The bronzes and brasses and lead and hammered iron of the desecrated churches were turned into money, and the money went into the pockets of the 'patriots.
The directing reins had been torn from the hands of government, and wild, uncouth, savage, insane mobs held high carnival over the ruins of desecrated homes.
Much rather should thy teeth bite out thy tongue, Dumb lip consort with desecrated brow, Silence become historiographer, And thou--thine own Cornelius Tacitus!
They naturally supposed that the shout of triumph was based on a reality: they saw not what was beneath the surface; they understood not the meaning of a defiled priesthood, a despised sacrifice, a desecrated temple.
St. Bartholomew, for which Pope Gregory and his cardinals sang their horrible Te Deum in their desecrated shrines,--these are the parallels to the deeds of Jehu.
She was "his counsellor to do wickedly," and her Baal-priest Mattan was more important than the Aaronic high priest of the despised and desecrated Temple.
It is true that in most places the principal temples were desecrated or destroyed, and were frequently converted into mosques.
They broke up the estate of the poet Pushkin in Mikhailovskoye, desecrated his grave, and destroyed the neighboring villages and the Svyatogor monastery.
They also broke up, desecrated and senselessly destroyed the most valuable monuments of the Christian Church, such as the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra, Novy Jerusalem in the Istrin region, and the most ancient monasteries and churches.
They destroyed the estate and museum of Leo Tolstoy, “Yasnaya Polyana” and desecrated the grave of the great writer.
Mohammed found the Caaba still desecrated by idols, and, while pressing his lips to the sacred Black Stone, he solemnly vowed to conquer Mecca and to remove the pollution of images from the floor of the sanctuary.
It seemed as if the armies of the dead, the mighty warriors of the past, had risen from their graves, to fight for their desecrated altars, and to defend those very graves from profanation.
By our famishing wives and children, by our desecrated altars and gods, let us rush upon them and overwhelm them at once.
Alone, within this dismal sanctuary, with hands outstretched towards the desecrated image of its tutelar saint, knelt Sybil.
The remains of the vagrant highwayman found a final resting-place in the desecrated churchyard of Saint George, without the Fishergate postern, a green and grassy cemetery, but withal a melancholy one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desecrated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
