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  • Not a holy-rolling, fire-and-brimstone guy by any stretch, but not a soft-spoken minister in vestments, performing liturgical readings either.†   (source)
  • In the medieval Catholic Church, the church's liturgy in Latin and the church's ritual prayers had been the backbone of the religious service.†   (source)
  • Nelson came home once and asked me what the words meant, assuming they were liturgical.†   (source)
  • Gebrew's liturgy was in ancient Biblical Geez, the official language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.†   (source)
  • The priest wore a length of yellow cloth twisted around her waist, her shoulders inked with shapes, some curling, some angular, that changed depending on the liturgical significance of the day.†   (source)
  • Once I realised that I could memorize bright snatches of the liturgy, I set myself to do it every Sunday, adding to my harvest like a farmer building his stook.†   (source)
  • This last was a rising, wavering wail—a spine-chilling sound that mingled fury with lamentation in a way that seemed almost liturgical, like the keening of a maddened rabbi.†   (source)
  • Most liturgical texts bring together the concepts of the Old and the New Testament and put them side by side.†   (source)
  • And an intellectual would have shown enough majestic meanings, colored propositions, and closely woven liturgical stuff to dress the House of Lords!†   (source)
  • "The liturgy for the dead is an Easter. liturgy," the note says.†   (source)
  • The liturgy, therefore, is characterized by joy …." the notes goes on.†   (source)
  • The liturgy also uses it in its later Russian connotation of lust' and Vice.'†   (source)
  • Surely the light of God's word and grace is available to those outside the Church of England, and through more direct means than the Liturgy.†   (source)
  • And so we sang our hearts out for Owen Meany—aware that while the liturgy for the dead might be characterized by joy, our so-called "human grief" did not make us "unchristian."†   (source)
  • I've had to relearn the importance of underwear, which has a liturgy of its own: I see England, I see France,
    I can see your underpants.
    Or else: Me no know, me no care,
    Me no wear no underwear.
    This is said by boys, while making faces like monkeys.†   (source)
  • As hard as I willed it, I could not draw up anything to follow: no formal supplication, no Bible verse, no scrap of liturgy.†   (source)
  • And later on in the liturgy for the same day there is another, more detailed passage, and this time it almost certainly refers to Mary Magdalene.†   (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)
  • To show you the completely new thing it brought into the world in all its freshness-not as you know it and are used to it but more simply, more directly-I should like to go over a few extracts from the liturgy-only a very few, and abridged at that.†   (source)
  • "Amen," we girls chanted, for the sound of Latin cued us for liturgical response.†   (source)
  • She would leave whatever she was doing, no matter what it was, and devote her entire body to trying to make him happy in the enormous mythic bed that was always ready for him, and in which she never permitted the invocation of liturgical formalisms.†   (source)
  • With the O.C. Bible, C.E.T. presented the Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries — in many respects a more remarkable work, not only because of its brevity (less than half the size of the O.C. Bible), but also because of its candor and blend of self-pity and self-righteousness.†   (source)
  • No longer was there the liturgical chatter of how San Zenon had made the day sunny for a granddaughter's wedding or how Santa Lucia had cured the cow's pinkeye.†   (source)
  • I found a classical station on the radio—Christmas plainchant, somber and liturgical, less melody than a spectral commentary on it—and thought about running myself a bath.†   (source)
  • Three voices chanting liturgically, a priest reciting the same line over and over and two altar boys delivering fixed responses.†   (source)
  • …on the left-hand page—Death elsewhere, Conflagration in many places, Terror universal, the crows, the ravens in silent glide, the raven perched on the white nag's rump, black and white forever, and he thinks of a lonely tower standing on the Kazakh Test Site, the tower armed with the bomb, and he can almost hear the wind blowing across the Central Asian steppes, out where the enemy lives in long coats and fur caps, speaking that old weighted language of theirs, liturgical and grave.†   (source)
  • The minister contributed a tacky liturgical touch in the form of a phial of dust, which at the end of his talk he extracted from his pocket and emptied over the two coffins, half on Sophie's and half on Nathan's, six feet away.†   (source)
  • No priest could have been concerned in the strange rough group; it was the work of Indians and had nothing in common with the tidy vestments of the Mass and the elaborately worked out symbols of the liturgy.†   (source)
  • When he goes inside, he sees the local grocer with rather in oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands, and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics, mostly bad, and in very small print.†   (source)
  • You have found an excellence in the church liturgy that has hitherto escaped me.†   (source)
  • His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-comments: "They say there's a pretty good hike from Duluth to International Falls."†   (source)
  • The figure of a woman as she appears in the liturgy of the church passed silently through the darkness: a white-robed figure, small and slender as a boy, and with a falling girdle.†   (source)
  • But the liturgy of Livingstone collars and dark ties fell on heedless ears; in fact D'Invilliers faintly resented his efforts; so Amory confined himself to calls once a week, and brought him occasionally to 12 Univee.†   (source)
  • "Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.†   (source)
  • The Liturgy,[582] admired for its energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,—these collected, too, in long periods, from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.†   (source)
  • Although the words were not slavishly borrowed, the expressions partook of the simple dignity of the liturgy to which she had been accustomed, and was probably as worthy of the Being to whom they were addressed as they could well be made by human powers.†   (source)
  • You have, then, resided much in the cities, for no other part of this country is so fortunate as to possess the constant enjoyment of our excellent liturgy.†   (source)
  • He thought the custom of baptism more important than its doctrine, and that the religious benefits the peasant drew from the church where his fathers worshipped and the sacred piece of turf where they lay buried were but slightly dependent on a clear understanding of the Liturgy or the sermon.†   (source)
  • I am delighted to meet with you, my young friend, for I think an ingenuous mind, such as I doubt not yours must be, will exhibit all the advantages of a settled doctrine and devout liturgy.†   (source)
  • He is mixed with the blood of the Indians, you have heard; and neither the refinements of education nor the advantages of our excellent liturgy have been able entirely to eradicate the evil.†   (source)
  • It is so unusual to find one of your age and appearance, in these woods, at all acquainted with our holy liturgy, that it lessens at once the distance between us, and I feel that we are no longer strangers.†   (source)
  • "Each must judge for himself," said Mr. Grant; "though I should think that a youth who had never been blown about by the wind of false doctrines, and who has enjoyed the advantages of our liturgy for so many years in its purity, might safely come.†   (source)
  • This was by no means an intended slight of that liturgy to which the divine alluded, but was the habit of a people who owed their very existence, as a distinct nation, to the doctrinal character of their ancestors.†   (source)
  • …men, the fathers of our religion, have expended their labors in clearing what was revealed from the obscurities of language, and the results of their experience and researches have been em bodied in the form of evangelical discipline That this discipline must be salutary, is evident from the view of the weakness of human nature that we have already taken; and that it may be profitable to us, and all who listen to its precepts and its liturgy, may God, in his infinite wisdom, grant!†   (source)
  • I had some years before compos'd a little Liturgy, or form of prayer, for my own private use (viz.†   (source)
  • …that morning; undergraduates and graduates and wives and tradespeople, walking with that unmistakable English church-going pace which eschewed equally both haste and idle sauntering; holding, bound in black lamb-skin and white celluloid, the liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House, Blackfriars, and heaven knows where besides; to restored Norman and revived Gothic, to travesties of Venice and Athens;…†   (source)
  • "Orgy-porgy," the dancers caught up the liturgical refrain, "Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, kiss the girls …"†   (source)
  • It was magnificently Catholic and liturgical.†   (source)
  • This photograph was, of course, in common use in their ritual observances, was subjected to daily profanation, for the friend replied in words which were evidently a liturgical response: "Let him stay there.†   (source)
  • …I need not spell it out, since it cannot have escaped you that the degrees in the Scottish Rite are but a surrogate for another hierarchy, that the alchemistic knowledge of the Master Mason is fulfilled in the mystery of transubstantiation, and that the mystic tour with which the lodge favors its novices clearly corresponds to the means of grace, just as the metaphoric games of its ceremonies are reflections of the liturgical and architectural symbols of our Holy Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • …early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our little bedroom—for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg and Yojo that day; HOW it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles—leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among the shipping.†   (source)
  • Nor do we hear much of /matins/, /lauds/, /lay-readers/, /ritualism/ and the /liturgy/.†   (source)
  • I sat rigid, lacking the form and ritual, the liturgical courtesies that eased the brothers into the depths of their sacred conversation.†   (source)
  • In these languages the true singular survives alongside the transplanted plural, but English has dropped it entirely, save in its poetical and liturgical forms and in a few dialects.†   (source)
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