Hallowed Sentence Examples

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  • The church was a hallowed place because of the sacred artifacts.

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  • The hallowed family tradition has been passed down for decades.

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  • The river was recognized as hallowed by the native community.

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  • The hallowed temple is respected by all the people in the religion.

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  • The transition from the true relic to the hallowed object was especially common.

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  • At Athens, the philosophers who taught in the schools hallowed by memories of Plato still openly professed what passed for Paganism, though it was really a body of moral doctrine, strongly tinged with mysticism, in which there was far more of Christianity and of the speculative metaphysics of the East than of the old Olympian religion.

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  • I'm finally to meet the hallowed geisha - but by now, my allotted time has shrunk to a mere ten minutes.

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  • He constructs what firsts at hallowed of three cards chronicling the overabundance.

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  • Did I have the bottle to take the step through this hallowed portal?

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  • The royal abbey of Westminster having been restored to its primitive use, Feckenham was appointed abbot, and the old life began again within its hallowed walls on the 21 st of November 1556.

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  • Plants and animals were often hallowed as totems (q.v.).

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  • Mutilations, such as circumcision, violation of chastity in the case of maidens hallowed to certain gods, ritual cutting of hair and nails, and their deposition in a sanctuary, rather belong to the category of sacrifice, as also the burial of a living victim under the foundations of a new building or bridge '(see' Sacrifice).

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  • The ustribes were the victors, and it was from them that the astic line sprang; hence the Pharaoh always bore the name onus, and represented in his own hallowed person the ancient 11 deity.

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  • At the age of five (853) he was sent to Rome, where he was confirmed by Leo IV., who is also stated to have " hallowed him as king."

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  • They were associated with hallowed trees, with sacred stones and pillars, out of which came the square rough-hewn Hermae which were anointed with oil like the sacred stone attributed by legend to Jacob at Bethel.

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  • We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

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  • New vestments were devised to take the place, on less solemn occasions, of those hallowed by association with the holy sacrifice; thus the processional cope (q.v.) appeared in the 11th century and the surplice (q.v.) in the 12th.

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  • The tradition fixing this hallowed place seems to have been constant throughout the whole of the Christian centuries, and it is one of the very few "holy places" shown to travellers and pilgrims in Palestine, the authenticity of which deserves consideration.

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  • Children were trained to wear their fathers mantles, and the idea that a nonprofessional could tread the hallowed ground of the stage did not enter any imagination.

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  • Parnassus was one of the most holy mountains in Greece, hallowed by the worship of Apollo, of the Muses, and of the Corycian nymphs, and by the orgies of the Bacchantes.

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  • Slavonic had been the language of the Church from the early middle ages, and was therefore hallowed in the eyes of the people and the clergy; through the political connexion with the Slavonic kingdoms of the south, Bulgaria and Servia, it had also been the language of the chancellories and of the court.

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  • Sharp-eyed visitors to my workshop have often asked me about an unusual instrument that inhabits this hallowed portal.

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  • The hallowed familytradition has been passed down for decades.

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  • The word is used in a special sense of the service, reverence and honour paid, by means of devotional words or acts, to God, to the gods, or to hallowed persons, such as the Virgin Mary or the saints, and hallowed objects, such as holy images or relics.

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  • When at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed glory of that creed which once was mine, and the lonely mystery of existence as now I find it - at such times I shall ever feel it impossible to avoid the sharpest pang of which my nature is susceptible."

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  • In both classes, accepted tradition (written or oral) was reinterpreted in order to justify or to deduce new teaching (in its widest sense), to connect the present with a hallowed past, and to be a guide for the future; and the prevalence of this process, the innumerable different examples of its working, and the particular application of the term Midrash to an important section of Rabbinical literature complicates both the study of the subject and any attempt to treat it concisely.'

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  • Storytelling Cruises--Professional storytellers teach passengers about the culture of Native Americans, who used to live along the Mighty Mississippi, and give tours of hallowed Civil War sites located along the historic waterway.

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  • Forbidden Journey -- This ride is a can't miss for every Harry Potter fan as visitors journey within the hallowed halls of Hogwarts.

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  • Let them therefore not repeat them, nor be hallowed by such prayers.

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  • The idea that a nonprofessional could tread the hallowed ground of the stage did not enter any imagination.

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  • At first it was enough to acquire some object which had enjoyed at least a mediate connexion with the hallowed corpse.

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  • Thrice hallowed shrine Of the heart's intercourse, our own fireside!

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  • The hallowed hallowed halls paid by employers as they are.

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  • We have worshiped other gods and have not hallowed your Name.

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  • The cemetary is known as hallowed ground in the small town.

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  • Cicero had already compared the sites consecrated by the memory of some illustrious name with those hallowed by recollections of a loved one.

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  • In Armenia and the Caucasus the cult of such sacred trees and pillars passed without break into that of the cross, which was hallowed as follows.

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  • Amulets, seals, talismans, relics, ear or nose rings stamped with divine emblems or otherwise hallowed, communicate their holiness to the wearers and protect from the Adversary.

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