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Distinguished by a red-tiled facade and paper lanterns hanging overhead, the shrine had offering cups arranged in rows on a crimson table and a bronze urn spouting wisps of incense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

"People fear the environment where the shrine is. No evil will ever happen here. So, nobody fights vultures that perch here," a man they call the Vulture King tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

A shrine in the entryway of Ruth Higdon’s home in Ridgway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Marking the place where the villagers were killed, the shrine alerted future generations to the false sense of safety offered by the hill.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Taipei’s grand temples like Longshan and Xingtian are only part of the city’s religious fabric, so one afternoon I went in search of the smaller shrines tucked into its quieter corners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The remains of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been carried through two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in neighbouring Iraq, as funeral ceremonies continue for a fifth day.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

After Najaf, Khamenei's body will be flown to Karbala, about 60 kilometres north, for another procession that will culminate at the shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

To Steve Jobs, they will build shrines; to his outgoing successor Tim Cook, they will dedicate case studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The next morning the Sasaki family joined crowds of people as they visited their shrines.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

Touch not the ark where purity in woman's form is shrined!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The Easter moon, golden-white and holy, looked down at her, shrined under the long sharp arch of the beech-trees; it was like going up and up towards a dim sanctuary where the holiest sat enthroned.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair

Yes, Liberty shrined his parting breath, And Texas his fainting cry— Yes, Fame hath torn his young name from death, The brave can never die!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

You have been shrined in my heart since that second time we met, but I knew it was hopeless——" "Clever boy!

From White Fire by John Oxenham

Mother, mother, thou art kind, Thou art standing in the room,— In a molten glory shrined, That rays off into the gloom!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

The wisest soul, by anguish torn,   Will soon unlearn the lore it knew; And when the shrining casket's worn,   The gem within will tarnish too.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me, Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea By rose-breaths shrining maidens like to thee!"

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer—may that day be long in coming!

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son,    Once so folded from all harms     In her shrining arms.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son, Once so folded from all harms, In her shrining arms.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson