Sentence examples for altar it from inspiring English sources

A second trip to the altar, it is said, is a triumph of hope over experience.

I say altar; it was actually a tinselled corner of R&R's.

If it leads to the altar, it will be his fourth marriage and, arguably, her first.

When the vicar is marooned behind the altar, it is the churchwardens who have responsibility for keeping order.

It is easy to imagine that when the silver reliquary foot of St Blaise (pictured above), that dates back to the 13th century, was placed on an altar it gripped the congregation's attention.In this section Holy jewels Realms of the ideal Fields of dreams Tactics over strategy Sing Sing or the lash Wet dreams ReprintsThe gorgeousness of reliquaries dominates the exhibition.

As he later wrote, "I am satisfied…to guard the gates of the temple in which Copernicus makes sacrifices at the high altar". It helped also that, at Tübingen, the professor of mathematics was Michael Maestlin (1550 1631), one of the most talented astronomers in Germany.

Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the parts, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar". "I think it symbolizes it all very nicely," Shor said.

But, once the smoke cleared from the altars, it was obvious that the one tribute City Ballet owes Balanchine, that of dancing his ballets competently, is not being paid.

For the ancient Greeks, the grave marker (a mound of earth or a stone) was the earth altar upon which sacrifices to the dead were made and, like other earth altars, it was called the omphalos, "the navel" of the earth i.e., the central point from which terrestrial life originated.

"If you have too much respect for it, you can trip yourself up and create a kind of fetish out of it, an altar, but it's not much good to the audience".

It's how I found my way to Bandon, it's how I made it to the altar, and it's how I landed my new job -- from which I've yet to be fired.