Sentence examples for chalice cover from inspiring English sources

The show delivers this news tersely, through a few tell-tale items: a stone basin carved as a serpent but used as a baptismal font; a chalice cover decorated with an indigenous feather mosaic that depicts a drop of the blood of Christ that looks like a tear of fire.

The post Communion veil is used to cover the chalice after Holy Communion has concluded.

The heavy rain soaked his chocolate-brown robes and beat a chaotic rhythm against the plastic lids that covered the chalice and Communion wafers yet to be blessed.

"The gold and pearl mount is identical to those that decorated book covers, chalices and votive crowns in the 10th and 11th centuries," Mr. Ward said.

The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.

For decades, the feeling has been that the Ajax top job is a poisoned chalice.

That would be enough for most managers who feel they have a reputation to protect to dart for cover, though Benítez can offer a sense of perspective on what others consider a poisoned chalice.

Poisoned chalice.

A poisoned chalice, surely.

Yes, the Chalice is filling.

It proved a poisoned chalice.