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  • We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground ...the kids were reciting in a pitch that was close to screaming.†   (source)
  • Startled, I stopped speaking the litany of consecration.†   (source)
  • Ay, Dios, how I worried that he had taken our baby from consecrated ground.†   (source)
  • My dear Edward: I was sorry not to have been able to make a visit to Dorchester, to see how you are getting on, now that you have hung your shingle up, and have been busy ministering to the local halt and the blind, while I have been gypsying about Europe, seeking how to cast out devils; which, between us, I have not learned the secret of as yet; but as you may suppose, the time between my arrival at Loomisville, and my departure from it, was much taken up with preparations, and the afternoons were perforce consecrated to my mother.†   (source)
  • I didn't know any name for what I'd seen until some years afterward in Atlanta, when I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw myself in a most palpable vision ascending the altar steps, opening the tiny sacrosanct tabernacle, reaching with monstrous hands for the consecrated ciborium, and taking the Body of Christ and strewing Its white wafers all over the carpet; and walking then on the sacred wafers, walking up and down before the altar, giving Holy Communion to the dust.†   (source)
  • Clara was the one in whom she confided her most subtle feelings, and to her she consecrated her enormous capacity for sacrifice and veneration.†   (source)
  • Then arrangements were made to continue burying in The Hand of God, a cattle ranch less than a league from the city, which was later consecrated as the Universal Cemetery.†   (source)
  • "I consecrate the daughter of Liet in the Sayyadina," husked the old woman.†   (source)
  • They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.†   (source)
  • I felt I was on consecrated soil, standing on the same spot where Thomas Stone, Ghosh, and Shiva had stood, each with scalpel in hand.†   (source)
  • Kennedy, beaming down on him from the frame on the wall, gave his words a special consecration.†   (source)
  • They had come to this old cornfield just a mile or so from the site of the old church to start over, and consecrate the ground.†   (source)
  • It looked, to me, like a cracker and a cup of wine ....before and after the priest consecrated it.†   (source)
  • To consecrate this night, I shall raise a toast to you, my children, and our noble history.†   (source)
  • How fondly can I call you mine, bound by every tie which consecrates the most inviolable friendship, yet separated by a cruel destiny, I feel the pangs of absence sometimes too sensibly for my own repose.†   (source)
  • You will have guessed what I will next tell you, that the union was consummated before it was consecrated.†   (source)
  • And then halted when the queen of Attolia balked at the matter of consecrating an altar to Hephestia for the ceremony.†   (source)
  • She had received dispensation to resign as a nun, but still wore her ring from consecration.†   (source)
  • Between them floated a bolt of lightning that joined and consecrated them.†   (source)
  • In a moment's consecration to her love-to her rebellious denial of disaster, to her love of life and of the matchless value that was herself-she felt the fiercely proud certainty that she would survive.†   (source)
  • You don't even have sense enough to drink when somebody brings you a cup of consecrated chicken soup—which is the only kind of chicken soup Bessie ever brings to anybody around this madhouse.†   (source)
  • After the Phocians plowed up consecrated ground at the temple of Apollo, the Amphictyonic council fined the sacrilegious offenders.†   (source)
  • He began speaking again, perhaps a final consecration, when Mr. Hickey broke from the rank and began walking away, down the hill, in my general direction.†   (source)
  • There is no ambiance of hazard here, but something so tightly repressed, so rigidly ordered, so consecrated to the adoration of restraint that you sometimes want to scream out for excess, for a single knee bent toward bad taste, for the cleansing roar of pandemonium to establish a foothold somewhere in the city But, of course, the charm of the city lies in this adherence to a severity of form.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, back in the torture room, the cardinal is now being forced to bleed into a chalice and consecrate his own blood, not to God, but to Satan.†   (source)
  • Along a block and a half of the city's crowded, easygoing Sunday street, he created an entire southern Appalachian scenario, a kind of darkling, concupiscent Dogpatch in which Pappy Yokum was transformed into an incestuous old farmer consecrated to romps with a daughter that Nathan—ever medically aware—had christened Pink Eye.†   (source)
  • The procession makes a circuit of the church grounds,
    Walking along the very curb of the pavement,
    And brings in from the street within the portals
    The spring, and all the murmurings of spring,
    And air that has about it the tang of consecrated wafers
    And of the heady fumes of spring.†   (source)
  • Worse, he had renounced sex when he consecrated himself to the Universes and this had a shocking effect on Star; sweet submissiveness wasn't her style.†   (source)
  • We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.   (source)
  • Christians practice Holy Communion in which they consecrate small amounts of bread and wine before consuming them.
  • Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground.†   (source)
  • "Stilgar heard me swear my loyalty to him when we consecrated the Fedaykin," Paul said.†   (source)
  • An experienced fighter was sent with a consecrated knife to do the job.†   (source)
  • The metal was consecrated in ancient times, at the Pantheon in Rome.†   (source)
  • "There will be no altar consecrated to Hephestia," she said.†   (source)
  • And then it gradually became clear even tome that he did not intend to have it consecrated at all.†   (source)
  • Did it matter whether you found God in a consecrated church or a penitentiary or even in yourself?†   (source)
  • It is a significant fact that the membership included some consecrated Jews.†   (source)
  • The Venerable Bede had once written that the hole in the Pantheon's roof had been bored by demons trying to escape the building when it was consecrated by Boniface IV.†   (source)
  • Vestiges remained in the arcane rituals of Christianity, in its god-eating rites of Holy Communion, its hierarchies of saints, angels, and demons, its chanting and incantation, its holy calendar's astrological underpinnings, its consecrated robes, and in its promise of everlasting life.†   (source)
  • The consecrated wine was only water, but in the dim light of sunset it looked blood red and tasted of communion wine.†   (source)
  • He had turned seventy, in fact, on the twenty-third of January of that year, and then he had set the date as the night before Pentecost, the most important holiday in a city consecrated to the cult of the Holy Spirit.†   (source)
  • He knew that Amaranta had consecrated her virginal widowhood to the rearing of Aureliano Jose and that the latter was beginning to show signs of quite good judgment and that he had learned to read and write at the same time he had learned to speak.†   (source)
  • A little farther on we find this promise: 'If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.†   (source)
  • I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances—solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong.†   (source)
  • He taught little Aureliano how to read and write, initiated him in the study of the parchments, and he inculcated him with such a personal interpretation of what the banana company had meant to Macondo that many years later, when Aureliano became part of the world, one would have thought that he was telling a hallucinated version, because it was radically opposed to the false one that historians had created and consecrated in the schoolbooks.†   (source)
  • WATERMAN: a Fremen consecrated for and charged with the ritual duties surrounding water and the Water of Life.†   (source)
  • There is a distinction in this word that specifies the fighters are not struggling for anything, but are consecrated against a specific thing — that alone.†   (source)
  • "That we may not lose all if Jessica of the Weirding should fail," Stilgar said, "Chani, daughter of Liet, will be consecrated in the Sayyadina at this time."†   (source)
  • They were filled with a strange pride, a pride they had never known before: the flag they were carrying had been consecrated by blood.†   (source)
  • Listening to her lilting voice, I was transported back to Missing Mean Time, as if I were sitting by the phone under Nehru's photograph and looking across the room at the portrait of Ghosh which consecrated the spot where he spent so many hours listening to the Grundig.†   (source)
  • When I consecrated the host and the wine at Mass, the very substance of the elements changed; it was the other properties—the shape, the taste, the size—that remained the same.†   (source)
  • Not even the tiniest particle of the consecrated host could be lost; we went to great pains to make sure of this when disposing of the leftovers from Holy Communion.†   (source)
  • Her aunt had sung it always, harshly, under her breath, in a bitter pride: "The consecrated cross I'll bear Till death shall set me free, And then go home, a crown to wear, For there's a crown for me."†   (source)
  • This last camp was located in wild country at an advantageously short distance from Warsaw, and unlike Auschwitz, which to a large extent was involved in slave labor, became a place totally consecrated to extermination.†   (source)
  • Despite her own actual blamelessness, she had felt dirtied, defiled by her association with her father in his last obsessed year, and with his atrocious pamphlet, and so her brief relationship with this consecrated sister and her brother had brought her moments of cleansing grace.†   (source)
  • "And when Cabhan is ash," she concluded, "we perform the final ritual and consecrate the ground.†   (source)
  • I consecrate this ground in the name of Frey.†   (source)
  • In the old days, the children of Vulcan would come here in secret to consecrate demigod weapons.†   (source)
  • They shed blood to defend their sacred rights and consecrate their Union.†   (source)
  • Anyone could make an altar, anyone could consecrate it with a sacrifice.†   (source)
  • They were the ones who knelt with their butts propped on the pew seats and looked about during the consecration.†   (source)
  • The Latin is hard and my knees are sore and scabby and I'd like to be out in the lane playing though still I'd like to be an altar boy helping the priest vest in the sacristy, up there on the altar all decked out in my red and white robes like my pal Jimmy Clark, answering the priest in Latin, moving the big book from one side of the tabernacle to the other, pouring water and wine into the chalice, pouring water over the priest's hands, ringing the bell at Consecration, kneeling, bowing, swinging the censer at Benediction, sitting off to the side with the palms of my hands on my knees all serious while he gives his sermon, everyone in St. Joseph's looking at me and admiring my ways.†   (source)
  • And when Canon Mackie proceeded with the Holy Eucharist, to the Thanksgiving and Consecration, which he sang, I even judged him unfairly for his singing voice, which is not and never will be the equal of Canon Campbell's—God Rest His Soul.†   (source)
  • Consecrate it to my use alone.†   (source)
  • He told me that you were the sole hope and future of Taggart Transcontinental, that you'd stand against us for a long time, that you'd fight a desperate battle for your railroad-because you had too much endurance, courage and consecration to your work.†   (source)
  • In particular, he wanted religious freedom for Jews, as he had written earlier to a noted New York editor, Mordecai Noah, who had sent him a discourse delivered at the consecration of a synagogue in New York.†   (source)
  • For you enabled my release from bondage, and you surrendered this precious Book unto me, and now you shall bear witness as I consume your friend and consecrate my rule over this earth.†   (source)
  • You had to act on your own judgment, you had to have the capacity to judge, the courage to stand on the verdict of your mind, and the purest, the most ruthless consecration to the rule of doing right, of doing the best, the utmost best possible to you.†   (source)
  • Next to "How the heck is one God also a Holy Trinity?" the most common question I got asked as a priest by non-Catholics was about transubstantiation: the belief that at consecration, the elements of bread and wine truly became the Body and Blood of Christ.†   (source)
  • Priests came and high priests and consecrated the place.†   (source)
  • He stopped to light his pipe, looked once at his wife and son in the window, and as one raises one's eyes from a page in an express train and sees a farm, a tree, a cluster of cottages as an illustration, a confirmation of something on the printed page to which one returns, fortified, and satisfied, so without his distinguishing either his son or his wife, the sight of them fortified him and satisfied him and consecrated his effort to arrive at a perfectly clear understanding of the problem which now engaged the energies of his splendid mind.†   (source)
  • The traveller was Jean Marie Latour, consecrated Vicar Apostolic of New Mexico and Bishop of Agathonica in partibus at Cincinnati a year ago—and ever since then he had been trying to reach his Vicarate.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • He could see the little image of the consecrated candle reflected in the soft surface of the pearl, and he heard again in his ears the lovely music of the undersea, the tone of the diffused green light of the sea bottom.†   (source)
  • But this year, because of his illness, the month of Mary he had been able to give to Mary; to Her he had consecrated his waking hours.†   (source)
  • Mr. Carey gave him the remains of the consecrated bread and told him he might eat it.†   (source)
  • Beginning with the consecrated formula, "The news is good," Tamb' Itam delivered Jim's own words.†   (source)
  • Well—a nun is a sister of mercy—a woman consecrated to God—who has renounced the world.†   (source)
  • & that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground.†   (source)
  • And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.†   (source)
  • Is this place of abomination consecrated ground?†   (source)
  • It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young men.†   (source)
  • What do you mean by alarming the citadel at this time of night consecrated to me?†   (source)
  • This is why the archdeacon was not interred in consecrated earth.†   (source)
  • They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some consecrated paten.†   (source)
  • Angel had put them into her hand, had obtained them bright and new from his bank for her; his touch had consecrated them to souvenirs of himself—they appeared to have had as yet no other history than such as was created by his and her own experiences—and to disperse them was like giving away relics.†   (source)
  • It was only that afternoon that May Welland had let him guess that she "cared" (New York's consecrated phrase of maiden avowal), and already his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.†   (source)
  • It was the steeple of Saint-Hilaire which shaped and crowned and consecrated every occupation, every hour of the day, every point of view in the town.†   (source)
  • Welcomed into their group, and made the confidant of their difficulty, Selden learned with amusement that there were several places where one might miss something by not lunching, or forfeit something by lunching; so that eating actually became a minor consideration on the very spot consecrated to its rites.†   (source)
  • Does a tiny particle of the consecrated bread contain all the body and blood of Jesus Christ or a part only of the body and blood?†   (source)
  • This year Helen came of age, and exactly the same thing happened in Helen's case; she also would shift her money out of Consols, but she, too, almost without being pressed, consecrated a fraction of it to the Nottingham and Derby Railway.†   (source)
  • That north side is consecrated ground.†   (source)
  • It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.†   (source)
  • He owned a consecrated troupe of men and boys, whose duty it was to dance various actions and meditations of his faith before him.†   (source)
  • He did not realize that Lucy had consecrated her environment by the thousand little civilities that create a tenderness in time, and that though her eyes saw its defects, her heart refused to despise it entirely.†   (source)
  • Their home must be these people's grave, for they could not have Christian burial, or be admitted to consecrated ground.†   (source)
  • It had been, in the consecrated phrase, "always understood" that Mrs. Peniston was to provide handsomely for her niece; and in the latter's mind the understanding had long since crystallized into fact.†   (source)
  • He has consecrated his citizen's pike on the altar of humanity just so that salami will have to pass through customs at the Brenner Pass someday.†   (source)
  • My imagination had isolated and consecrated in the social Paris a certain family, just as it had set apart in the structural Paris a certain house, on whose porch it had fashioned sculptures and made its windows precious.†   (source)
  • If the wine change into vinegar and the host crumble into corruption after they have been consecrated, is Jesus Christ still present under their species as God and as man?†   (source)
  • Each must hie to her own home; wend you we might do all these journeys in one so brief life as He hath appointed that created life, and thereto death likewise with help of Adam, who by sin done through persuasion of his helpmeet, she being wrought upon and bewrayed by the beguilements of the great enemy of man, that serpent hight Satan, aforetime consecrated and set apart unto that evil work by overmastering spite and envy begotten in his heart through fell ambitions that did blight and mildew a nature erst so white and pure whenso it hove with the shining multitudes its brethren-born in glade and shade of that fair heaven wherein all such as native be to that rich estate and—†   (source)
  • only from the abstraction of Space, but from that imaginary Time in which we place not one, merely, but several of our travels at once, which do not greatly tax us since they are but possibilities,—that Time which reconstructs itself so effectively that one can spend it again in one town after one has already spent it in another—and consecrated to them some of those actual, calendar days which are certificates of the genuineness of what one does on them, for those unique days are consumed by being used, they do not return, one cannot live them again here when one has lived them elsewhere; I felt that it was towards the week that would begin with the Monday on which the laundress was t†   (source)
  • And in considering that inner aspect, he also thought of Settembrini, the pedagogic organ-grinder, whose father had come into the world in Greece and who explained love for that sublime image to be a matter of politics, rebellion, and eloquence, whereby the citizen's pike was consecrated on the altar of humanity; he thought, too, of Comrade Krokowski and what the two of them had been doing in his darkened suite for some time now, thought of the two sides of analysis and how it was not only beneficial to action and progress, but also a relative of the grave and its foul anatomy.†   (source)
  • He had behaved very humanely in his duel with crude Naphta; but more generally, whenever his enthusiasms blended humanity and politics for the ideal of civilization's ultimate victory and dominion, whenever the citizen's pike was consecrated on the altar of humanity, it became doubtful whether, on a more impersonal level, he remained of a mind to hold back his sword from shedding blood.†   (source)
  • For some quite irrelevant reason, or for no reason at all, he would at the last moment prevent me from taking some particular walk, one so regular and so consecrated to my use that to deprive me of it was a clear breach of faith; or again, as he had done this evening, long before the appointed hour he would snap out: "Run along up to bed now; no excuses!"†   (source)
  • I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.†   (source)
  • * The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated.†   (source)
  • The spot had been consecrated to this ancient diversion from time immemorial, the old stocks conveniently forming a base facing the boundary of the churchyard, in front of which the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players.†   (source)
  • Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!†   (source)
  • You see me devoted to you, body and soul, my life and each warm drop that circles round my heart are consecrated to your service; you know full well that my existence is bound up in yours—that were I to lose you I would not outlive the hour of such crushing misery; yet you speak with calmness of the prospect of your being the wife of another!†   (source)
  • But, if my life were not to be still consecrated to you, or if my marriage were so arranged as that it would part us, even by the length of a few of these streets, I should be more unhappy and self-reproachful now than I can tell you.†   (source)
  • He had entered the service of Porthos upon condition that he should only be clothed and lodged, though in a handsome manner; but he claimed two hours a day to himself, consecrated to an employment which would provide for his other wants.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES
    In Padua buried, he is lying
    Beside the good Saint Antony,
    Within a grave well consecrated,
    For cool, eternal rest created.†   (source)
  • I am he to whom the red men consecrated this spot, and in honor of whom they now and then roasted a white man, by way of sweet-smelling sacrifice.†   (source)
  • The font in which infants were consecrated to God, the sacramental vessels whence piety received the hallowed draught, were given to the same destruction.†   (source)
  • The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair.†   (source)
  • At last there was a clapping of hands, and a burst of joyous cries; following the pointing of many fingers, he looked and saw upon the brow of a hill the templed gate of the consecrated Grove.†   (source)
  • The priests took their places in front of the judge, and the clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were accused of having violated a place held consecrated by the Brahmin religion.†   (source)
  • It was doubtless in consequence of Mrs. Touchett's attitude, and of the injury it offered to habits consecrated by many charming seasons, that Madame Merle had, after this, chosen to pass many months in England, where her credit was quite unimpaired.†   (source)
  • It was little matter of surprise, perhaps, that the executioner should thus do his best to vindicate and uphold the machinery by which he himself had his livelihood and worthier individuals their death; but it deserved special note that men of a far different sphere—even of that consecrated class in whose guardianship the world is apt to trust its benevolence—were found to take the hangman's view of the question.†   (source)
  • But as it is, either our union must be consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist: practical obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan.†   (source)
  • An almost spiritual medium, like the electric telegraph, should be consecrated to high, deep, joyful, and holy missions.†   (source)
  • Grace being said,—for those people have their grace as well as we—though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts—Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.†   (source)
  • Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: "I am sinful and nought—a vessel to be consecrated by use—but use me!"†   (source)
  • And still Ben-Hur's eyes climbed on and up—up over the roof of the Temple, to the hill Zion, consecrated to sacred memories, inseparable from the anointed kings.†   (source)
  • He was fond of the old, the consecrated, the transmitted; so was she, but she pretended to do what she chose with it.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES
    We've but to make a deposition valid
    That now her husband's limbs, outstretched and pallid,
    At Padua rest, in consecrated soil.†   (source)
  • But, much to the disappointment of the crowd, this latter business was broken off by the interposition of the town beadle, who had no idea of permitting the majesty of the law to be violated by such an abuse of one of its consecrated places.†   (source)
  • If it should turn out that he was freed from all danger of disgrace—if he could breathe in perfect liberty—his life should be more consecrated than it had ever been before.†   (source)
  • I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when they came to thin, or let in the light to, a consecrated grove (lucum conlucare), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god.†   (source)
  • Happening to call one evening when Celine did not expect me, I found her out; but it was a warm night, and I was tired with strolling through Paris, so I sat down in her boudoir; happy to breathe the air consecrated so lately by her presence.†   (source)
  • Some there were, no doubt, caught by the promise held out to their troubled spirits of endless peace in a consecrated abode, to the beauty of which, if they had not money, they could contribute their labor; this class implied intellect peculiarly subject to hope and fear; but the great body of the faithful could not be classed with such.†   (source)
  • But it would be difficult to convey to those who never heard him utter the word "business," the peculiar tone of fervid veneration, of religious regard, in which he wrapped it, as a consecrated symbol is wrapped in its gold-fringed linen.†   (source)
  • And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:— "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate thee!"†   (source)
  • One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess — which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study — and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry — for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his — when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.†   (source)
  • Man, nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and finally conquered these monsters.†   (source)
  • Dorothea had observed the animus with which Will's part in the painful story had been recalled more than once; but she had uttered no word, being checked now, as she had not been formerly in speaking of Will, by the consciousness of a deeper relation between them which must always remain in consecrated secrecy.†   (source)
  • Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day finds himself in the greatest missery.†   (source)
  • All people, young or old (that is, all people in those ante-reform times), would have thought her an interesting object if they had referred the glow in her eyes and cheeks to the newly awakened ordinary images of young love: the illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry, as the pathetic loveliness of all spontaneous trust ought to be.†   (source)
  • Nine days he honored him, nine revels led with consecrated beasts.†   (source)
  • He began the Consecration of the Wine — in a chipped cup.†   (source)
  • The Consecration was in silence: no bell rang.†   (source)
  • As she listened to the consecrations, one for His Body and one for His Blood, she believed that the words of the priest were a sword which mystically separated the Blood from the Body.†   (source)
  • It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrassing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at Leon and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado.†   (source)
  • It said: "Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth."†   (source)
  • His son said, "Father, we can do nothing except make our mind up to consecrate our lives for the country.†   (source)
  • 37 Precisely the same bell is rung in the Christian Mass at the moment when God, through the power of the words of the consecration, descends into the bread and wine.†   (source)
  • In this remote outpost of the mighty Church, he was the standard-bearer of the one true faith, the consecrate flesh of God.†   (source)
  • He began the Consecration of the Host (he had finished the wafers long ago — it was a piece of bread from Maria's oven); impatience abruptly died away: everything in time became a routine but this — 'Who the day before he suffered took Bread into his holy and venerable hands ...'†   (source)
  • When Father Joseph stayed there, he used to tell them he wished that, in addition to the consecration of the hands, God had provided some special blessing for the missionary's feet.†   (source)
  • In the inadequate light he could just see two men kneeling with their arms stretched out in the shape of a cross — they would keep that position until the consecration was over, one more mortification squeezed out of their harsh and painful lives.†   (source)
  • What we did had a consecration of its own.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity.†   (source)
  • A ceremony of consecration, festive as well as religious, was now to be performed.†   (source)
  • Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.†   (source)
  • But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate...we cannot consecrate...we cannot hallow this ground.†   (source)
  • You do not consecrate your days and nights wholly to the king's service.†   (source)
  • He was of that lower secretarial type who at forty have engraved upon their business cards: "Assistant to the President," and without a sigh consecrate the rest of their lives to second-hand mannerisms.†   (source)
  • That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death.†   (source)
  • She understood consecration—she who answered Kennicott's hints about having Hugh christened: "I refuse to insult my baby and myself by asking an ignorant young man in a frock coat to sanction him, to permit me to have him!†   (source)
  • I explained to you that when the oldest member of the family—when the oldest one marries, well, the two oldest sisters consecrate themselves to being Himadoun, to being his wife's ladies-in-waiting.†   (source)
  • Women—of whom he had expected so much; whose beauty he had hoped to transmute into modes of art; whose unfathomable instincts, marvellously incoherent and inarticulate, he had thought to perpetuate in terms of experience—had become merely consecrations to their own posterity.†   (source)
  • sorrow that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal who, by bar and lack of that great consecration seeth in his own unlearned estate but a symbol of that other sort of lack and loss which men do publish to the pitying eye with sackcloth trappings whereon the ashes of grief do lie bepowdered and bestrewn, and so, when such shall in the darkness of his mind encounter these golden phrases of high mystery, these shut-up-shops, and draw-the-game†   (source)
  • I would put beforehand into this kiss, which was bound to be so brief and stealthy in execution, everything that my own efforts could put into it: would look out very carefully first the exact spot on her cheek where I would imprint it, and would so prepare my thoughts that I might be able, thanks to these mental preliminaries, to consecrate the whole of the minute Mamma would allow me to the sensation of her cheek against my lips, as a painter who can have his subject for short sittings only prepares his palette, and from what he remembers and from rough notes does in advance everything which he possibly can do in the sitter's absence.†   (source)
  • But he was willing to let himself be influenced, in the sense that it was pleasant to experiment, and so he reined in the protests that piety and good taste would have raised against the Settembrinian order of things and decided that what seemed blasphemous to him might be termed bold and what he found in bad taste might, at least in those days and under those conditions, be considered the excesses of a high-minded and noble nature—as, for example, when Grandfather Settembrini called barricades the "people's throne" or declared it necessary to "consecrate the citizen's pike on the altar of humanity."†   (source)
  • And the man who consecrates himself to it—and he who withdraws from that sacred task does not deserve the name of man—belongs to politics, foreign and domestic.†   (source)
  • might not, perhaps, discover his phrase among them, the presence of one of those invisible realities in which he had ceased to believe, but to which, as though the music had had upon the moral barrenness from which he was suffering a sort of recreative influence, he was conscious once again of a desire, almost, indeed, of the power to consecrate his life.†   (source)
  • A mystic consecration?†   (source)
  • No, — I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.†   (source)
  • Grace being said,—for those people have their grace as well as we—though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts—Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.†   (source)
  • I should be quite willing to enjoy the art here, but there is so much that I don't know the reason of—so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.†   (source)
  • On the twenty-fifth of April, and the eighteenth of June, the days of marriage and widowhood, she kept her room entirely, consecrating them (and we do not know how many hours of solitary night-thought, her little boy sleeping in his crib by her bedside) to the memory of that departed friend.†   (source)
  • It is only the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed within it which restrain laughter and consecrate the costume of any people.†   (source)
  • Consecrate your existence to the recollection of James Steerforth's tenderness — he would have made you his serving-man's wife, would he not?†   (source)
  • Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.†   (source)
  • Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!†   (source)
  • He resolved to consecrate himself entirely to a future for which he was responsible in the sight of God, and never to have any other wife, any other child than the happiness and fortune of his brother.†   (source)
  • "Now this is the moment to consecrate your existence to the King of kings," said d'Artagnan, "if you persist in offering him a civility.†   (source)
  • Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin.†   (source)
  • Thus, with the exception of the fragile memory which the author of this book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of Notre-Dame,—nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up.†   (source)
  • The student may read Homer or AEschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.†   (source)
  • The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the consecration of the primitive types, the constant bending of all the forms of men and of nature to the incomprehensible caprices of the symbol.†   (source)
  • "Ah my dear," interrupted provincial Mahiette, assuming in her turn an air of superiority, "what would you say then, if you had seen in '61, at the consecration at Reims, eighteen years ago, the horses of the princes and of the king's company?†   (source)
  • Mr. Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.†   (source)
  • I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep — on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag.†   (source)
  • : his disregarded love had not turned to bitterness; its death had made sweet odors—floating memories that clung with a consecrating effect to Dorothea.†   (source)
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