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So renowned was he throughout the country, indeed throughout the world, that many famous and influential people came to visit the him at his London home, from where the man worked so hard to forge his shrine to political verisimilitude
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The room was immaculate, a shrine, a grotto to the people and I wanted to be in there, to join them, inhale that place, sit on a chair in there at Easter time and sing my heart out
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In one famous instance the sign came, but too late, the sentence had already been carried out so the Goddess in her wrath smote the ground in an Earthquake that leveled the shrine where the sentence was carried out
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I've kissed the shrine of Saint
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Eventually he stood before a small shrine, and
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the future, Jean fell to his knees before the shrine and
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‘In addition to your pilgrimage to the great shrine of
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travellers wasted no time in visiting the shrine, although
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journey and to say a prayer for his soul at the shrine of
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continue through to the shrine of Saint Jacques
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‘From there I’ll visit the great shrine of Saint Gilles,
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before the shrine of Saint Jacques in Compostella
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beggars (hence Jean's interest in visiting his shrine)
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respects in front of the shrine, before searching out the
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I still believe that it is – then what’s sitting in the shrine?
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choir, and knelt before the shrine of the Saint
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He kissed the shrine, crossed himself, and – somewhat
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“Drop it, would you? The only thing I want is to get home and build a shrine for all our loved ones
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He remembered a shrine to Apollo that the inhabitants maintained on a small hill above their village
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“Have you reached the shrine?”
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left turn from ECR to reach that shrine
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She still intended to build that shrine, but more, she wanted her story told
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A handful of gleaming coins and a warm smile would be more than enough to convince the carriage driver to take her most of the way - just a bit further beyond the point at which the road split and the way upward to Meridia’s famed shrine came into view
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Recollections of her savior at the Talos shrine wrought chills
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With a small part of the profits, she’d build the shrine that she’d long promised her family
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But when enough incense and flowers and gold trinkets and notes scribbled with prayers began to pile up at his feet, the shrine was hastily cleared
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It was the same pale countenance of the strange man from the Talos shrine
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It was a shrine to those who had suffered so much during that conflict
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But when she had bluntly told him he should marry again he felt as if she had torn away the veil that hung before some sacred shrine of his innermost life, and he had been more or less afraid of her ever since
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His tribe profited from their shrine, the Kaaba
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The Tlatelolco main temple was also a twin shrine atop a tall pyramid, but they venerated Texcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli
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We would find the latter’s shrine just south of the Chimu border
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Llapchillulli, who was still with me, told me that the locals had no idea we were conquering them, but rather thought we were merely headed to the shrine of Pachacamac to consult the oracle
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By midmorning, we were approaching the town and shrine called Pachacamac
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He informed me that the shrine was dedicated to the creator god, Pachacamac
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The shrine had been here for many generations
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It consisted of a terraced pyramid built on a hill in such a way that it was hard to tell where the hill ended and the shrine began
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They were very impressed that a stranger had not only heard of their sacred shrine, but was going out of his way to visit it
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He went over to a small shrine next to the house, lit a stick of incense, and placed
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The view was fantastic from the top; she could see the red gate of Kozuchi Shrine on
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The path was littered with crumbling statues, and there was even a large worn out shrine gate
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The other exorcists and I gathered in front of the shrine as Akito lectured us on exorcist safety
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There was nothing particularly odd about the sitting room, except the giant framed picture of an obese ginger tabby which adorned the shrine altar
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The Obake hunt took us to a small shrine and cemetery which existed in the mountains behind headquarters
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We found Taisei and Kurumi chilling out at the gate to the shrine
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waste(!) you can still go to Israel and to the Shrine of the Book there, and see this
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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“When I was still young as a god, an elf with almost no magic sought to build a small shrine to me on a remote mountaintop, a shaded and wind-sheltered cupola with a wonderfully comfortable marble chair
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I sometimes went to the shrine he built and took comfort in enjoying the view and the solitude, for none knew it was there but he and I
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“My attention had been elsewhere as this happened, and on a clear and starry night I returned to the mountaintop, and his beautiful little shrine was gone
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But his shrine had never been designed to be visited by mortals
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The bodies of the Nuns who have died in this holy place -- all the humble sisters who over the decades have guarded the shrine of Saint Cuthbert -- shall rest side-by-side under the dust of our grass-grown graveyard, as if merely asleep, until to rise again on the Day of Judgment, when the Lord's trumpet shall sound, and all the dead shall come forth from lonely tombs to render their accounts to Him, and the spirits of the righteous shall be lifted on the arms of angels and shall forever reign with Christ where sorrow shall vanish, envy shall fade away, and pain and lamenting shall flee before the shining faces of the Saints
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Reaching forward, he laid the feather at the scribe’s feet as if laying an offering at a shrine to the sky gods
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The north-men came like stinging hornets and spread on all sides like fearful wolves, robbing, violating, committing sacrilege everywhere, ripping and slaughtering my flock of virgin scholars! Alcuin -- behold with pity and tears the shrine of Saint Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the brides of God, stripped of its ornaments, trampled by the polluted steps of pagan fiends, within fire-black walls once graced by Northumbria's finest art! A place more venerable than all in England was the prey of pagan wretches
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It was a shrine echoing a mother's
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It reminded her how the Cross of Jesus was also a shrine
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To heed the horror of the shrine, the distant cries,
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Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void,
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‘I have many matters in hand at the moment, I can’t afford to waste my time sitting about in an old shrine all day waiting for them, that is why we have magic to command
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With the chance of a quick escape a decision to head to the shrine was made swiftly
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CHAPTER 12 – THE SHRINE
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Tethering the horses to a nearby tree, Corvus picked up a large stone and threw it against the translucent yellow barrier surrounding the shrine, but it bounced back off into the ditch
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The owners of the shrine must have discovered the powers of the crystals a long time before the rest of the continents, as their crystals had either been replaced or did not degrade like the others that Athene had seen
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But his sponsor had once again contacted him, supplying him with the location of the Shrine and had also used some dark art to accelerate the healing of his wound by the red crystals
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Titus trundled along the trail behind Athene on the dappled Nordheim pony that he had acquired from the stock left outside the shrine
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‘You know Athene, since your very first touch back outside the shrine I could tell that there was something special about you
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At last, after winding their way through the mountains and several narrow passes with some heart-stopping drops, the ruins of a temple appeared on a slope below, similar in design to that of the sunken shrine that they had encountered days before
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This shrine however, had been totally destroyed by what looked like a landslide
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They stood directly above the ruined and buried shrine for good reason
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Several days earlier when the wizard had revealed the location of Athene to Titus, he had also explained that he would need to deliver her to a crystal shrine for transport back to his lair
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With the crystal of the first shrine destroyed, this place was the next obvious choice, although he did think it strange that the wizard did not mystically contact him again since he had acquired his prize
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The crystal buried deep below the ground in the shrine boosting the diamond’s power and providing the extra range needed
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After leaving the shrine the previous day he had covered several leagues on foot, jogging along at the standard Nordheim military pace – run one league, walk another and so on, until the blisters stop you
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The Su-Katii had scattered the horses before entering the shrine
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Thinking back to the morning when he had been laid out on the cold floor of the shrine unconscious, he had awoken with his head spinning and a rare clarity of mind which was almost dreamlike, enveloping him
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Groggily he had gathered up his weapons, removed a bag from Lewem’s decimated corpse and began to stagger back up through the eerie silence of the deserted shrine
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He had known that he would have little chance for rest on his pursuit to the second shrine and as the sun had gone down he had came across the two hunters who had attempted to keep their camp fire low
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Eventually he neared the ruins of the sunken shrine and Tamar’s voice came to him unexpectedly like a bell ringing in his head
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Move no closer to the shrine or you will be discovered
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Now we stood at a ruined shrine to Isis on the river just south of
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“The Shrine of Apis! I built this chamber just for my chosen
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So they usually head towards a cool hill station like Solan soon after marriage like a person pays obeisance to a shrine after his wishes are fulfilled by God
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At the far end, there was a small shrine with pictures of his parents and his older sister, I supposed
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coolies because they pay homage at some shrine which is obviously not what
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Not all of Ganid's early training to respect images as symbols of divinity had been eradicated, and he thought it best to purchase a little silver shrine in honor of this fertility goddess of Asia Minor
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Gonod and Ganid visited this notorious shrine of shame, but Jesus declined to accompany them
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"It is not fitting that I come before the shrine clad in silk
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She fell on her knees and thence prostrate, regardless of Vateesa's admonition, and Vateesa, to be on the safe side, followed her example; for after all, she was only a girl, and it was very awesome in Mitra's shrine
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When Natohk dismounted before Set's shrine by the oasis of Aphaka, the beast swept into the night and vanished
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She has abolished the worship of Ishtar, and turned the temple into a shrine of idolatry
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'Then follow me to Hanuman's shrine, and the gods have mercy on our souls!'
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Perhaps the girl was thinking of her lover lying senseless on the divan under the copper lamps; or was shrinking with fear of what lay ahead of them in the demon-haunted shrine of Hanuman
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A marble wall surrounded the shrine, with a broad opening directly before the portico
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He knew the hideous habits of the priests of the East, and was aware that an invader of Hanuman's shrine might expect to encounter almost any sort of nightmare horror
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He knew there was a good chance that neither he nor the girl would ever leave the shrine alive, but he had risked his life too many times before to devote much thought to that consideration
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In the day men and women might come timidly into the shrine and place offerings to the ape-god on the black altar
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‘I mean, are there any sort of shrines
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he was making a point of visiting all the major shrines
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And there’s a few shrines I’d like
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‘I wanted to visit some friends and shrines on my
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He also recalled all the shrines,
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“I came across her at one of the forest shrines
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around their own candle-lit shrines with their hopeful thoughts for
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The town was littered with fetish heaps, shrines, images, clay pans, bottles, and other symbolic fetish tokens, and many a sly kick was given by the Houssas to these charm pots
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But honest history will record it [at least in its early part] as an attempt at restoration of stolen Christian/Roman lands and the relief of persecution of innocent pilgrims whose only wish was to visit the many shrines built during the many centuries of previous Christian occupancy
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This was a form of calendrical imperialism, co-opting Paleopagan sacred times, as they had Paleopagan sacred places (most if not all of the great cathedrals of Europe were built on top of earlier Paleopagan shrines and sacred groves)
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It had four small shrines in pairs, on opposite sides of a court
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There were niches in the walls of the shrines, which had once contained cult objects, or the mummified remains of past Inkas
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precious little shrines together, wouldn"t that be a
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‘The Tohali mountain shrines are the only places in Nordheim that could house such power
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The stories tell how they rode out to battle hundreds of years ago to a distant land and never returned, but their shrines of worship remained protected by a great yellow dome of magical power
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He felt the need to break their long silence that had haunted him by explaining the history of the shrines as they slowly plodded forwards, even if it was to be a one-way conversation
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and shrines to vanity and vacuity
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God is not asking that you build him shrines or temples, but that you do small things
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It is a city of shrines and relics, and these also can be utilized as channels by the Adepts; and the same is true of such
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Set the Old Serpent, men said, banished long ago from the Hyborian races, yet lurked in the shadows of the cryptic temples, and awful and mysterious were the deeds done in the nighted shrines
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There shrines and palaces and towers
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The Pilgrimage to Mecca is not directed at the shrines of
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listing all of the shrines in the United States
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shrines were the beginning of the growing of other spiritual
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firsthand the great shrines of Europe and the Middle East
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She was going to visit the shrines of Europe
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In the near distance, Japanese shrines and Buddhist temples reflected the islands' multiethnic tapestry
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Too much structure, with buildings that are shrines to men, not God; and not enough faith
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We are not gathered in glass houses made by men, or ornate buildings built as shrines to other men, but humbly, in your presence
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My mother lives in Nepal very quietly and scratches out a living by guiding people to various temples and shrines in Nepal
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I made a few turns into a darkening maze of houses, little shrines with incense sticks burning at the doorsteps, and a few growls from half-asleep dogs
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Shrines and monuments have
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Around the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun there are 4 shrines one inside
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The Golden Shrines of King Tutankhamun
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shrines, and to vow alms for the souls of the dead! The inhabitants of al
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The ancient shrines and
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There have been buildings and shrines on the site for well
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They house shrines and tombs of the lamas
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smoke drifts amongst the shrines and incense fills the air
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Huge shrines were
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My grand mother sobbed at this point but quickly cleans her eyes, drew me closer to her side and said to me, “We have consulted and appeased all shrines and deities in our land, and we have their assurances that nothing untoward would happen to you
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To honor them we’ll make a candle light procession to their Holiest of Shrines, which you’ve just visited
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“We’re close to one of the old shrines
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He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain
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shrines,” (19) even found their way into the royal treasury
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If you want to worship at the shrines of power and privilege
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And how they are placed in sacred shrines called museums: where people go to gawk, stare at, and worship them
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The use of shrines, incense, prayers (flags and wheels included), and the talk of faith
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On corners where there must’ve been shrines and temples there were only recent charred looking ruins
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The dens & shrines of young ballsy lives -
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On, then, as aforesaid, came Don Quixote against the wary Biscayan, with uplifted sword and a firm intention of splitting him in half, while on his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand, and under the protection of his cushion; and all present stood trembling, waiting in suspense the result of blows such as threatened to fall, and the lady in the coach and the rest of her following were making a thousand vows and offerings to all the images and shrines of Spain, that God might deliver her squire and all of them from this great peril in which they found themselves
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But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom
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I took a house in a town near Augsburg, and then joined these pilgrims, who are in the habit of coming to Spain in great numbers every year to visit the shrines there, which they look upon as their Indies and a sure and certain source of gain
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The shelves in the room looked oddly spaced, bolted in to replace sacred statues or shrines
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Muslim extremists hated American support for the state of Israel, but even more they hated American presence and influence in the Muslim world, especially in Saudi Arabia, home of Islam’s holiest shrines
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Sharon’s action was prompted by a second Palestinian Intifada (uprising – Chapter 17 has details on the first one) which had broken out in protest at his declaration that Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque, two of Islam’s holiest shrines, would remain in Israel’s hands forever
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Peter, Agrafena Ivanovna Belova, a country neighbor of the Rostovs, came to Moscow to pay her devotions at the shrines of the Moscow saints
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But when we watch the ants round their ruined heap, the tenacity, energy, and immense number of the delving insects prove that despite the destruction of the heap, something indestructible, which though intangible is the real strength of the colony, still exists; and similarly, though in Moscow in the month of October there was no government no churches, shrines, riches, or houses- it was still the Moscow it had been in August
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That mob of lovers worshiping at studio shrines
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To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present,—this seems strange
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The train put wheels under them and here they run down the long road out of the Gothic and Baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men
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” As far as he could see there was nothing but bundles and stacks and more bundles neatly placed like little abandoned shrines in the late day, in the warm-blowing wind
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These were the shrines I visited both summer and winter
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Before the tent of King Arthur was spread a rich Nicean cloth upon the grass, and the holy relics were set on it, taken out of their covers and their shrines
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But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
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The Church has nothing left but temples and shrines and canonicals and vestments and words
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Peter, Agraféna Ivánovna Belóva, a country neighbor of the Rostóvs, came to Moscow to pay her devotions at the shrines of the Moscow saints
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But when we watch the ants round their ruined heap, the tenacity, energy, and immense number of the delving insects prove that despite the destruction of the heap, something indestructible, which though intangible is the real strength of the colony, still exists; and similarly, though in Moscow in the month of October there was no government and no churches, shrines, riches, or houses—it was still the Moscow it had been in August
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Pausanias mentions 131 as the last shrines which he sees before entering the upper city, those of Ge Kourotrophos and Demeter Chloe, which must therefore have been situated on the southwest slope of the Acropolis
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” I hear incidentally that the parents of another of our brethren have been visiting all the shrines near them, and, with wailings and prayers, have placed their votive offerings where they thought they would do good, hoping that thus he would be won back from Christian heresy to their ancestral orthodoxy
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The work there knows no Sabbath, and the Chinese settlement abounds in gambling and opium dens and in petty idol shrines
