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shrine

[shrahyn] / ʃraɪn /


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Yasukuni this week also appealed to visitors to refrain from wearing military-style uniforms so that the "general public can worship in peace and quiet at our shrine".

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

News of the 52-year-old’s death went viral, along with a six-minute video manifesto he left behind, prompting demonstrations in Canada, France, Australia, India and elsewhere, including a floral shrine in front of the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Had he ever been inside the shrine by the river?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She enjoys tea ceremonies, wearing kimonos and visiting shrines and temples, according to her official profile page.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

In a salty touch, the first thing Kenna does is remove his roadside cross, claiming he hated memorial shrines.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

In Osaka, Japan, young women dressed in traditional kimono took part in a Shinto ritual procession to mark the end of the year at Sumiyoshi Taisha, one of Japan's oldest Shinto shrines.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2025

In Jerusalem there are Muslim shrines built to the Prophet Jesus.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

I say 'mutatis mutandis', because the historical development of a group of imaginary concepts shrined in tradition and romance can never be quite the same as that of the people who conceive them.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray

Thou art standing in the room, In a molten glory shrined That rays off into the gloom!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He forgot that shrined in her love there was but one son.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

NOT alone because of their good meat and drink are three meals shrined at the heart of these following impressions.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

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

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.

"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

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

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




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