Sample Sentences fornave (auto-selected)
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We found it fairly easily, on a street with a nave of ancient elms branching over it.† (source)
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At the far end of the nave the altar loomed out of the shadows, laden with white flowers.† (source)
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I wandered through the latticework of shadows and fallen blocks into the nave.† (source)
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She remembered her in the nave of the Institute, a dark-haired boy clinging to her wrist.† (source)
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They flew down the length of the nave, turned sharply, and disappeared through a doorway.† (source)
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He took the brochure from her hand, consulted it briefly, and then led her down the center of the nave, toward the western facade.† (source)
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How the congregation straggled out of the nave; how they hated to have their rituals revised without warning.† (source)
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Once in, I paid little attention to the architecture, although I knew the terms: clerestories and naves were things I'd written papers about.† (source)
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Pews fell, hymnals flew, and a silver Communion set cruised silently across the vaulted darkness of the nave to crash into the far wall.† (source)
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The vessel was of the class called naves liburnicae—long, narrow, low in the water, and modelled for speed and quick manoeuvre.† (source)
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Sophie sat on one of the benches in the center of the nave, staring toward the altar at an old crucifix painted with muted colors.† (source)
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Though these architects never realized the debt they owed the birds, they still regarded them with tenderness, and allowed them to hang about wherever they liked, in the naves and belfries, like the mascots and guardians of the place they truly were.† (source)
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The hall glowed like a cathedral nave at Eastertide.† (source)
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"You are very friendly towards me," said K., as they walked up and down beside each other in the darkness of one of the side naves.† (source)
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He moved through the Great Crossing, down the nave toward the narthex and the front doors.† (source)
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K. hurried along both the side naves but saw no-one but an old woman who, wrapped up in a warm shawl, was kneeling at a picture of the Virgin Mary and staring up at it.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.
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nave = navel
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