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  • Rows of granite pews, dappledwith different colors, extending all the way to the far-off entrance to the nave.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the nave the altar loomed out of the shadows, laden with white flowers.†   (source)
  • They flew down the length of the nave, turned sharply, and disappeared through a doorway.†   (source)
  • The interior was small—tiny when compared with St. Peter's—with a short nave under a low vault.†   (source)
  • When the boys entered the basilica, lights in the nave came on and the organ gently played the notes of the "Guadalupe Hymn."†   (source)
  • The hall glowed like a cathedral nave at Eastertide.†   (source)
  • As they proceeded down the seemingly endless nave, his eyes darted about behind their obscuring mask.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He was staring westward down the nave.†   (source)
  • His voice was sombre now, like a great organ rolling its notes from a high cathedral nave.†   (source)
  • Nor am I sure that she would nave made even a token protest; she might have cooperated heartily.†   (source)
  • The Threshing-Floor Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes nave seen the King, seen the King, the Lords of hosts.†   (source)
  • He moved through the Great Crossing, down the nave toward the narthex and the front doors.†   (source)
  • The elevator doors opened onto the nave of the cathedral, alive with the dancing light of candles.†   (source)
  • Basta was walking down the nave with a gas can in his hand.†   (source)
  • I moved quickly but when I reached the sheltered corner of the nave she was gone.†   (source)
  • The entire section of the nave near Newton's tomb was deserted.†   (source)
  • As Meggie came down the nave with Mo and Elinor, Dustfinger raised his head briefly.†   (source)
  • Meggie looked up at Dustfinger one last time, then walked uncertainly down the nave ahead of Basta.†   (source)
  • She remembered her in the nave of the Institute, a dark-haired boy clinging to her wrist.†   (source)
  • We dashed up the spiral staircase and into the nave.†   (source)
  • As Aamon made his eerie, drifting progress down the nave, Max scanned the seats for Vyndra.†   (source)
  • She remembered standing in the nave of the Institute, saying "I love you" to a closed elevator door.†   (source)
  • The nave was bright with rows of candelabras, and the stained-glass windows glowed softly.†   (source)
  • As we came to the end of the nave, our guide turned to the left and pointed.†   (source)
  • The nobles turned and faced the central aisle as the four monarchs entered and walked down the nave.†   (source)
  • "Water polo I nave never seen," Star said doubtfully.†   (source)
  • That settled it; I would nave to drop off at the other end.†   (source)
  • Wearing their infrared goggles, they fanned out across the nave, swinging their detectors before them.†   (source)
  • Although we have sneaked out of a book, we can't expect to nave exactly the same status as its author.†   (source)
  • The first rehearsal, in the nave of the church, was held on the Second Sunday of Advent and followed a celebration of the Holy Eucharist.†   (source)
  • Her uncovered face shone like alabaster, her lanceolate eyes had a life of their own under the enormous chandeliers of the central nave, and as she walked she was so erect, so haughty, so self-possessed, that she seemed no older than her son.†   (source)
  • Langdon and Katherine followed in silence through the darkness of the four-hundred-foot-long nave's central aisle, which was curved ever so slightly to the left to create a softening optical illusion.†   (source)
  • But that Second Sunday of Advent, in the nave of Christ Church, I felt angry with Owen—once the hairs on the back of my neck relaxed.†   (source)
  • Sophie drew a startled breath as she looked down the length of the abbey's nave, the full magnitude of the building now visible.†   (source)
  • He thought that the best seats would be in the central nave, behind the reserved pews, but there were so many people he could not find a seat there either, and he had to sit in the nave for poor relations.†   (source)
  • But Owen Meany pointed to the door at the end of the nave, where several of the faithful had already departed; Owen's parents, like that other couple who were banished from the garden, left Christ Church as they were told.†   (source)
  • Sophie turned and scanned the nave.†   (source)
  • Unlike most churches, however, it had its entrance on the side, rather than the standard rear of the church via the narthex at the bottom of the nave.†   (source)
  • Basta pushed aside two women who were kneeling in the middle of the nave cleaning the floor and strode toward the altar steps.†   (source)
  • For Barb Wiggin, who wished that every worship service was as smooth as a flight free of bumpy air—and one that departs and arrives on time—the sight of the traffic jam in the nave of the church must have caused further upset.†   (source)
  • In the rear of the nave, rendered even more insignificant than usual by his proximity to the giant painting of "The Call of the Twelve," pudgy Harold Crosby sat diminished by the depiction of Jesus appointing his disciples; all eyes rarely feasted on fat Harold Crosby, who was not grotesque enough to be teased—or even noticed—but who was enough of a slob to be rejected whenever he caused the slightest attention to be drawn to himself.†   (source)
  • Pacing now near the corner of the choir screen, he took a deep breath and glanced up the long nave toward the main altar in the distance.†   (source)
  • Meggie could remember how the thin little man had come hurrying up the nave of Capricorn's church with his pile of books.†   (source)
  • The rector was not on the steps to shake their hands because so many of the congregation had followed our triumphant exit, leaving the Rev. Mr. Wiggin stranded at the altar with his benediction unsaid—he was supposed to have delivered his benediction from the nave, where the recessional should have led him (and not us).†   (source)
  • Langdon and Sophie moved slowly down the north aisle, keeping to the shadows behind the ample pillars that separated it from the open nave.†   (source)
  • "By all the letters of the alphabet!" whispered Fenoglio as he and Meggie walked down the nave of the church with Basta close behind them.†   (source)
  • At that moment, a hundred yards down the nave, out of sight behind the choir screen, the stately tomb of Sir Isaac Newton had a lone visitor.†   (source)
  • They were nearer the nave of the church than was the rector, who was nowhere to be found, and if the Rev. Mr. Merrill continued to press, with the throng, toward the door, he might find himself out on the steps—in a position to shake hands with the departing souls—in advance of the Rev. Mr. Wiggin's appearance there.†   (source)
  • He glanced at his statue, as if to make sure it still gave a flattering enough image of him, then strode quickly down the nave.†   (source)
  • On the back, Collet found notations scrawled in English, describing a cathedral's long hollow nave as a secret pagan tribute to a woman's womb.†   (source)
  • Despite having traveled more than halfway down the nave, they still had no clear view of Newton's tomb.†   (source)
  • Taking several steps back from the tomb, Langdon peered around the choir screen to his right, across the nave to the side opposite that which they had descended.†   (source)
  • The intersection of nave and transept occurred directly beneath the main cupola and was considered the heart of the church… her most sacred and mystical point.†   (source)
  • Its long central section—the nave—led directly to the main altar, where it was transversely intersected by a shorter section, known as the transept.†   (source)
  • A dramatic, circular edifice with a daunting facade, a central turret, and a protruding nave off one side, the church looked more like a military stronghold than a place of worship.†   (source)
  • Crossing the massive nave on a diagonal, Langdon and Sophie remained silent as the elaborate sepulchre revealed itself in tantalizing increments… a black-marble sarcophagus… a reclining statue of Newton… two winged boys… a huge pyramid… and… an enormous orb.†   (source)
  • He must have been playing with the tapers in the huge candelabras that decorated the sides of the nave.†   (source)
  • Beyond it, she could see the empty nave of the cathedral, light shimmering in a line of candelabras down the center aisle.†   (source)
  • She had seen him in the nave of the Institute the first time she had met Helen, his wrist clamped in his older sister's grip, his hands covered in wax where he had been playing with the tapers that decorated the interior of the cathedral.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They took the elevator downstairs; the nave of the Institute was brightly lit with witchlight as well as the usual tapers and was filled with Council members and their families.†   (source)
  • -1 nave every right to know.†   (source)
  • The fear and anticipation among the demons was palpable as the huge, dark shape slipped from its perch and advanced warily up the nave.†   (source)
  • And they were smiling at Max now It was unmistakable–Astaroth was staring right at Max as he walked down the nave.†   (source)
  • His heart went out to poor David; just the walk down the nave's aisle must have been an act of sheer will.†   (source)
  • They stood silently a moment in the vast deserted nave of Saint Thomas'.†   (source)
  • A wet wind was sweeping up the nave, making the candle-flames bend and flicker.†   (source)
  • Save for surplice he might have been a Catholic choir boy, with for nave the looming and shadowy crib, the rough planked wall beyond which in the ammoniac and dryscented obscurity beasts stirred now and then with snorts and indolent thuds.†   (source)
  • Gaunt, grim, grey, its nave rising some seventy feet to a sagging, half-ruined roof, it was more like a fortress than a place of worship.†   (source)
  • The result was that you were yourself on foot, armed only with steel, against an adversary who weighed a good deal more than you did and who could unseam you from the nave to the chaps, and set your head upon his battlements.†   (source)
  • And on the Sunday of the sermon a huge congregation filled the nave, overflowing onto the steps and precincts.†   (source)
  • When he took her down the nave to let her out of the church, Sada made to lift his cloak from her shoulders.†   (source)
  • At first he could see nothing in the dim light of the aisle; after a moment he made out in the nave the small black forms that had preceded him.†   (source)
  • When Rieux was preparing to leave the church a violent gust swept up the nave through the half-open doors and buffeted the faces of the departing congregation.†   (source)
  • Then down the nave he saw Miss Schlegel and her brother.†   (source)
  • A long ray of the sun fell across the nave and seemed to darken the lower sides and the corners.†   (source)
  • The eyes of Porthos were furtively cast upon this lady, and then roved about at large over the nave.†   (source)
  • At last he did turn, and stalked resolutely down the nave, braving them all, with a compressed lip.†   (source)
  • Newman went into the little nave and of course found a deeper dusk than without.†   (source)
  • He wandered some distance up the nave and sat down in the splendid dimness.†   (source)
  • The candles on the high altar had been extinguished but the fragrance of incense still floated down the dim nave.†   (source)
  • Overhead, Handel's March swelled pompously through the imitation stone vaulting, carrying on its waves the faded drift of the many weddings at which, with cheerful indifference, he had stood on the same chancel step watching other brides float up the nave toward other bridegrooms.†   (source)
  • They strolled undemonstratively up the nave towards the altar railing, which they stood against in silence, turning then and walking down the nave again, her hand still on his arm, precisely like a couple just married.†   (source)
  • And so it was that they walked on together now in silence, the tall shafts of the trees in the approaching dusk making solemn aisles through which they proceeded as might worshipers along the nave of a cathedral, the eyes of Clyde contemplating nervously and wearily a smear of livid red still visible through the trees to the west.†   (source)
  • …these things made of the church for me something entirely different from the rest of the town; a building which occupied, so to speak, four dimensions of space—the name of the fourth being Time—which had sailed the centuries with that old nave, where bay after bay, chapel after chapel, seemed to stretch across and hold down and conquer not merely a few yards of soil, but each successive epoch from which the whole building had emerged triumphant, hiding the rugged barbarities of the…†   (source)
  • "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)
  • There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. Ruskin.†   (source)
  • In the valley beneath lay the city they had just left, its more prominent buildings showing as in an isometric drawing—among them the broad cathedral tower, with its Norman windows and immense length of aisle and nave, the spires of St Thomas's, the pinnacled tower of the College, and, more to the right, the tower and gables of the ancient hospice, where to this day the pilgrim may receive his dole of bread and ale.†   (source)
  • He had lifted up his arms and spoken in ecstasy to the sombre nave of the trees, knowing that he stood on holy ground and in a holy hour.†   (source)
  • …independence of the human gaze, tied to the human face by a cord so loose, so long, so elastic that it can stray, alone, as far as it may choose—while Mme. de Guermantes sat in the chapel above the tombs of her dead ancestors, her gaze lingered here and wandered there, rose to the capitals of the pillars, and even rested upon myself, like a ray of sunlight straying down the nave, but a ray of sunlight which, at the moment when I received its caress, appeared conscious of where it fell.†   (source)
  • When he entered the central nave to go back to where he had left the album, he noticed a small secondary pulpit on a column almost next to the stalls by the altar where the choir sat.†   (source)
  • In the nave.†   (source)
  • And now he and his wife were pacing slowly down the nave, carried forward on the light Mendelssohn ripples, the spring day beckoning to them through widely opened doors, and Mrs. Welland's chestnuts, with big white favours on their frontlets, curvetting and showing off at the far end of the canvas tunnel.†   (source)
  • In the nave of the edifice were two or three villagers, and when the clergyman came to the words, "What God hath joined," a woman's voice from among these was heard to utter audibly: "God hath jined indeed!"†   (source)
  • It was known that she had insisted on sending her own carpenter to look into the possibility of taking down the end panel of the front pew, and to measure the space between the seat and the front; but the result had been discouraging, and for one anxious day her family had watched her dallying with the plan of being wheeled up the nave in her enormous Bath chair and sitting enthroned in it at the foot of the chancel.†   (source)
  • With a smile, K. followed the old man all the way up the side nave and almost as far as the main altar, all this time the old man continued to point at something but K. deliberately avoided looking round, he was only pointing in order to make it harder for K. to follow him.†   (source)
  • On this very day of the schoolmaster's visit Jude was expecting Sue, as she had promised; and when therefore he saw the schoolmaster in the nave of the building, saw, moreover, that he was coming to speak to him, he felt no little embarrassment; which Phillotson's own embarrassment prevented his observing.†   (source)
  • He knelt to say his penance, praying in a corner of the dark nave; and his prayers ascended to heaven from his purified heart like perfume streaming upwards from a heart of white rose.†   (source)
  • A long time had apparently passed since his heart had stopped beating, for the white and rosy procession was in fact half way up the nave, the Bishop, the Rector and two white-winged assistants were hovering about the flower-banked altar, and the first chords of the Spohr symphony were strewing their flower-like notes before the bride.†   (source)
  • To pass the time he opened the album and flicked through the pages a little but soon had to give up as it became so dark that when he looked up he could hardly make out anything in the side nave next to him.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Wild rumours had been abroad the day before to the effect that Mrs. Manson Mingott, in spite of her physical disabilities, had resolved on being present at the ceremony; and the idea was so much in keeping with her sporting character that bets ran high at the clubs as to her being able to walk up the nave and squeeze into a seat.†   (source)
  • The steeple of St. Paul's, now that we nave got it on end, is a great help to the navigation of the woods, for, by the Lord Harry! as was—"†   (source)
  • The vessel was of the class called naves liburnicae—long, narrow, low in the water, and modelled for speed and quick manoeuvre.†   (source)
  • There was every walk and nook which Alice had made glad; and in the minster nave was one flat stone beneath which she slept in peace.†   (source)
  • In form it was like the nave of a cathedral with one gable removed, but the scene within was anything but devotional.†   (source)
  • We went into the church, which was a simple little building with one little aisle divided from the nave by three round arches, a chancel, and a rather roomy transept for so small a building, the windows mostly of the graceful Oxfordshire fourteenth century type.†   (source)
  • From the chime in the spire, over the intersection of the aisles and nave, to the great bell of the front, he cherished a tenderness for them all.†   (source)
  • I provided this bar in the middle with ribbed machinery, and at each end with a sort of nave, in which, as in a cart wheel, four flat spokes, or paddles, were fixed obliquely.†   (source)
  • 'For many hours in every day, the sisters paced slowly up and down the nave, or knelt by the side of the flat broad stone.†   (source)
  • The populace, fond of all prowess, sought him with their eyes, beneath the gloomy nave, regretting that he had so speedily disappeared from their acclamations.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVI ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS' On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints', in the distant barrack-town before-mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon.†   (source)
  • Our progress was much assisted by the tide, which, like a current, bore us onward along the nave of this natural cathedral; aisles, transepts, screens and side-chapels appearing between the columns and arches which in the 'dim religious light' were revealed to our wondering eyes.†   (source)
  • The nave was reflected in the full fonts with the beginning of the arches and some portions of the glass windows.†   (source)
  • The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.†   (source)
  • One of the choristers went round the nave making a collection, and the coppers chinked one after the other on the silver plate.†   (source)
  • The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesiastically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching-pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.†   (source)
  • There is Notre-Dame de Paris, a pointed-arch edifice, which is imbedded by its pillars in that Roman zone, in which are plunged the portal of Saint-Denis, and the nave of Saint-Germain des Prés.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the intermittent clash of the iron butts of the beadles' halberds, gradually dying away among the columns of the nave, produced the effect of a clock hammer striking the last hour of the condemned.†   (source)
  • Then she remembered the day when, all anxious and full of hope, she had entered beneath this large nave, that had opened out before her, less profound than her love; and she walked on weeping beneath her veil, giddy, staggering, almost fainting.†   (source)
  • In cathedrals, it was, in some sort, another subterranean cathedral, low, dark, mysterious, blind, and mute, under the upper nave which was overflowing with light and reverberating with organs and bells day and night.†   (source)
  • The Saxon architect completed the erection of the first pillars of the nave, when the pointed arch, which dates from the Crusade, arrived and placed itself as a conqueror upon the large Romanesque capitals which should support only round arches.†   (source)
  • Only the great rose window of the facade, whose thousand colors were steeped in a ray of horizontal sunlight, glittered in the gloom like a mass of diamonds, and threw its dazzling reflection to the other end of the nave.†   (source)
  • And those myriads of statues, which peopled all the spaces between the columns of the nave and the choir, kneeling, standing, equestrian, men, women, children, kings, bishops, gendarmes, in stone, in marble, in gold, in silver, in copper, in wax even,—who has brutally swept them away?†   (source)
  • The whole nave was deserted.†   (source)
  • Beside them, the enormous towers of Notre-Dame, thus viewed from behind, with the long nave above which they rise cut out in black against the red and vast light which filled the Parvis, resembled two gigantic andirons of some cyclopean fire-grate.†   (source)
  • Thus, in order to indicate here only the principal details, while the little Red Door almost attains to the limits of the Gothic delicacy of the fifteenth century, the pillars of the nave, by their size and weight, go back to the Carlovingian Abbey of Saint-Germain des Prés.†   (source)
  • There are, invariably, two naves, which intersect in a cross, and whose upper portion, rounded into an apse, forms the choir; there are always the side aisles, for interior processions, for chapels,—a sort of lateral walks or promenades where the principal nave discharges itself through the spaces between the pillars.†   (source)
  • It was at the moment when he was returning, on Quasimodo day, from saying his mass at the Altar of the Lazy, which was by the side of the door leading to the nave on the right, near the image of the Virgin, that his attention had been attracted by the group of old women chattering around the bed for foundlings.†   (source)
  • …of the Gobelins and its four white walls on the left, there was the Faubourg Saint-Jacques with the beautiful carved cross in its square; the church of SaintJacques du Haut-Pas, which was then Gothic, pointed, charming; Saint-Magloire, a fine nave of the fourteenth century, which Napoleon turned into a hayloft; Notre-Dame des Champs, where there were Byzantine mosaics; lastly, after having left behind, full in the country, the Monastery des Chartreux, a rich edifice contemporary with…†   (source)
  • Those which first caught the eye were the Bernardins, with their three bell towers; Sainte-Geneviève, whose square tower, which still exists, makes us regret the rest; the Sorbonne, half college, half monastery, of which so admirable a nave survives; the fine quadrilateral cloister of the Mathurins; its neighbor, the cloister of Saint-Benoit, within whose walls they have had time to cobble up a theatre, between the seventh and eighth editions of this book; the Cordeliers, with their…†   (source)
  • There are, invariably, two naves, which intersect in a cross, and whose upper portion, rounded into an apse, forms the choir; there are always the side aisles, for interior processions, for chapels,—a sort of lateral walks or promenades where the principal nave discharges itself through the spaces between the pillars.†   (source)
  • And when I refused to take it back, he gave It in alms to the poor right there in the nave.†   (source)
  • Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?†   (source)
  • But all's too weak; For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution, Like valor's minion, Carv'd out his passag tTill he fac'd the slave; And ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements.†   (source)
  • All you gods, In general synod, take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, As low as to the fiends!†   (source)
  • *complete* Then shall they kneel adown by one assent, And to each spoke's end, in this mannere, Full sadly* lay his nose shall a frere; *carefully, steadily Your noble confessor there, God him save, Shall hold his nose upright under the nave.†   (source)
  • Then shall this churl, with belly stiff and tought* *tight As any tabour,* hither be y-brought; *drum And set him on the wheel right of this cart Upon the nave, and make him let a fart, And ye shall see, on peril of my life, By very proof that is demonstrative, That equally the sound of it will wend,* *go And eke the stink, unto the spokes' end, Save that this worthy man, your confessour' (Because he is a man of great honour), Shall have the firste fruit, as reason is; The noble usage…†   (source)
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