Annunciationin a sentence
- Annunciation is celebrated on March 25, nine months before Christmas.
- The Illustrated Man, stripped to the waist, all nightmare viper, sabertooth, libidinous ape, clotted vulture, all salmon-sulphur sky rose up with annunciations: "The last free event this evening!† (source)
- Erbug, The Annunciation, it's called.† (source)
- The brazen triumphant hymnody poured out of the ether, hosannas, bleats of rams, angelic annunciations—making Sophie think of all the unborn mornings of her life.† (source)
- I attended Catholic schools with mystical names like the Infant of Prague and the Annunciation, as Dad transferred from Marine base to desolate Marine base, or when we retired to my mother's family home in Atlanta when the nation called my father to war.† (source)
- As it says in a liturgy for the Feast of the Annunciation, Adam tried to be like God and failed, but now God was made man so that Adam should be made God.† (source)
- Gabriel is the angel most often painted -- and typically to depict the Annunciation.
- [The annunciation is celebrated with music] [Amanda rises.† (source)
- Ever since then, all the most important events in his own history had occurred in the blessed month when this sinful and sullied world puts on white as if to commemorate the Annunciation, and becomes, for a little, lovely enough to be in truth the Bride of Christ.† (source)
- Legend on the screen: "Annunciation."† (source)
- Quivering as at some "annunciation", she went slowly forward.† (source)
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- Isaac looked a little blank at this annunciation.† (source)
- This annunciation excited great commotion among the different sectaries.† (source)
- Come, work now, 'tis the Feast of the Annunciation.† (source)
- Another silence succeeded this annunciation of the character Duncan had assumed.† (source)
- His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps.† (source)
- Where the sequence failed, as in the Annunciation, the Curator supplied it from his mound of books—French and German, with photographs and reproductions.† (source)
- It chanced that, in the year of grace 1482, Annunciation Day fell on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth of March.† (source)
- For the satisfaction of the reader, we stop to say that it is the twenty-first day of March, nearly three years after the annunciation of the Christ at Bethabara.† (source)
- But this indication of his taste for good cheer, joined to the annunciation of his being a follower of the Court, who had lost himself at the great hunting-match, cannot induce the niggard Hermit to produce better fare than bread and cheese, for which his guest showed little appetite; and "thin drink," which was even less acceptable.† (source)
- Accordingly, this alarming annunciation was received, as Magua intended, with manifest disapprobation, if not with alarm.† (source)
- At this sudden and unexpected annunciation, a low, fierce yell ran through the multitude, that might not inaptly be compared to the growl of the lion, as his choler is first awakened—a fearful omen of the weight of his future anger.† (source)
- As this simple and yet terrible annunciation stole on the ears of the multitude, a stillness as deep and awful succeeded as if the venerated spirit they worshiped had uttered the words without the aid of human organs; and even the inanimate Uncas appeared a being of life, compared with the humbled and submissive throng by whom he was surrounded.† (source)
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