For there, in the sanctuary his sister had erected, knelt the returned prodigal, unknown to all save that sister.
The office commonly called Compline was said, and the little sanctuary was left again vacant and dark save where the solitary lamp twinkled before the altar.
Here in the days of Henricus Primus, that peace-loving king, Rex pacis, have I seen nothing but quiet scholars and learned men, and the court of a king that was an academe and a sanctuary of letters.
His forehead was broad and lofty, as if it were the seat of great wisdom, and a sanctuary of high schemes of government.
He also took the two sons of Modred; and one of them, who had fled for sanctuary to the church of St. Amphibalus, in Winchester, he murdered before the altar.
The walls of this desolatesanctuary seemed begrimed with the smoke of ages; they were festooned with cobwebs, these furnishing the only attempts at hiding the unsightly cracks.
But within thesanctuary it seemed more than resurrection, almost creation.
My grief and misfortune should have made a sanctuary about me, but the orphaned and unfortunate, God's trust to all true men, only invite your evil designs, because defenceless.
The entrance to this sanctuary was much obstructed by fallen fragments, and the natives, who had never dared to penetrate the mysterious recess, believed the passage to lead by a subterranean course to Palenque.
Yet well it were for you (If, ere with aid I come, I tarry long), Not by one step this sanctuary to leave.
The maidens, accompanied by their father Danaes, have fled from Egypt and arrived at Argos, to take sanctuary there and to avoid capture by their pursuing kinsmen and suitors.
Almost directly in the middle of these lands lies Aphaka, where was the chief sanctuary of the "Lord" Adonis, and a little south of this spot lies the country where the Saviour of the Gospels was born (op.
But in Bethlehem there was, as Jerome informs us, [139] an ancient grove and sanctuary of the Syrian Adonis, and as Jerome himself complains the very place where the Saviour first saw the light resounded with the lamentations over Tammuz.
Thus the altar grew into the Tabernacle, which was the sanctuary where God was supposed to dwell in the midst of the camp.
To the thought of the altar as the meeting place with God was added the conception of God dwelling among his people in a sanctuary and receiving homage as the King of Is'ra-el (Exod.
Inward discord, the schism between duty and inclination, sets up strife in the very sanctuary of the soul.
Only when God dwells in us, shall we have the nerve and the firmness of hand to take the knife and 'slay before the Lord,' the awful Guest in the sanctuary within, the most precious of the children of our spirits.
We want the old and the young to work side by side, if the work is to last and the sanctuary is to be ample enough to embrace all shades of character and tendencies of thought.
He 'looks down from the height of His sanctuary to hear the crying of the prisoner.
At the upper end of the field the river provides yet closersanctuary for these children of the spring.
There was no want of a sanctuary where he might harbour until troubles blew by; and accomplices helped each other with more or less good faith.
The doors of her soul--that innermost sanctuary of all--would never be opened for any other to enter in.
Presently she got up very quietly and, without speaking, sought the sanctuary of her own room, where she could be alone.
He had been bailiff to the Earl of Leicester, had torn a rogue from sanctuary at Brackley; had been excommunicated by Hugh, with all his mates.
The upper church, since then a chapter house, was built in Romanesque style, with round arches, two rose windows, and three sanctuarywindows with wide splays.
Twenty-five centuries have rolled away since Prince Siddartha closed his unique career, and twelve centuries later the wondrous sanctuary of Boro-Boedoer was erected in honour of the creed eternally dear to the heart of the mystic East.
A transient cult sprang up among the Javanese populace as the ancient sanctuary revealed itself anew.
The great architectural pile, built at a uniform level, surrounds the central sanctuarywith five great enclosures.
An ever-growing tangle of lianas and vines buried this ancient shrine through the lapse of ages, until accident revealed the entombed sanctuary about eighty years ago.
A visit to the Joss Temple follows, liberally supported by this smiling Celestial, whose zeal and charity may perchance plead for him in that purer sanctuary not made with hands, and as yet unrevealed to his spiritual sight.
The blank emptiness and desertion of this vast sanctuary produces an impression of unutterable desolation.
Old German and Flemish ballads borrow quaint anachronisms from that sylvan sanctuary of incense-laden sweetness, which coloured the thoughts and dreams of contemporary poets, and added exotic traits to their descriptions of northern scenery.
The spiritual significance of the sacred lyric only transposes the mystic melody into a higher key, and heaps the thurible of the sanctuary with the frankincense of praise, to celebrate the typical bridal of Earth and Heaven.
The great convocation was on Friday, when a sermon and prayers were the order of the day, the immense court affording ample space for the multitude, while the large east end sanctuary gave room for persons of distinction to kneel.
There are the usual choir, sanctuary, and side chapels, and the division between the choir and the sanctuary is ornamented with carvings in wood and ivory.
He was on the steps of the sanctuary now, still with outstretched hands and pouring words, and the mob rolled after him to the rumble of ten thousand feet and the sighing of ten thousand hearts.
And finally, more significant than all, was the empty carpeted sanctuary at her feet, the enormous altar with its flight of steps, the gorgeous curtain and the great untenanted sedilia.
At her left rose up the red-covered barricade over which she could see the sanctuary and the curtain; and her seat in the tribune, raised some eight feet above the floor, removed her from any possibility of conversation.
Across her intense fixity moved pictures of no importance of Oliver as he had been at breakfast, of her own bedroom with its softened paper, of the dark sanctuary and the white figure on which she had looked just now.
And above all the voice pealed on--and the thin hands blanched to whiteness strained from the wide and sumptuous sleeves as if to reach across the sanctuary itself.
Now here," he said, "we have the old sanctuary of the abbey.
I heard the suffering Saviour's sad lament Over His sanctuary shamed in sin; I heard His words--'Deliver me from hands That have profaned the holiest with guilt!
It was carried from the Holy Land by Joseph of Arimathea and taken first to Gaul and later to Spain to a special sanctuaryamong the mountains, which was named Monsalvat.
Whoever entered the sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lycaeus in Arcadia was believed to lose his shadow and to die within the year.
Nobody might enter the ancient Arcadian sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura with a ring on his or her finger.
But the kinsmen of the deceased were not allowed to set foot in the sanctuary for thirty days after the death, and before doing so they had to shave their heads.
Of the rest Vespasiano writes with emphasis that 'his house was a sanctuary of manners, deeds, and words.
He begins by telling how he left his villa in the Casentino, accompanied by his brother, to pay a visit to the hill-set sanctuary of S.
He said he could not permit a sick boy who had taken refuge within the sanctuary of the Church, to be seized or subjected to any species of force, unless he was accused of a specific crime, capable of being immediately proved.
These peasants, being able to visit thesanctuary often, do not trouble to acquire and take away that coveted document which it is the wish of all true pilgrims to possess--the compostela.
