tabernacle
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“The Los Angeles Public Library. The go-to tabernacle of literacy and lifesaving life hacks. A passport to wonder and whimsy and then some,” Bui says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Its location in the nation’s capital is no accident: On its website, the center boasts that it is the closest tabernacle to the White House.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
She’s said it on her knees before her church’s gold tabernacle and slumped in the embrace of her living room sofa.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
The tabernacle, which measured around two feet tall, was likely weighted — a tradition to keep it from being carried off.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
It was like his thoughts as he moved about the tabernacle in which his life had been spent; the tabernacle that he hated, yet loved and feared.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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Soon after, Romney immigrated to the U.S., eventually joining the Mormons in Utah, where he served as an architect, designing temples, tabernacles, and the homes of the church’s second prophet Brigham Young.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023
The heavy concrete rooftops and domes of churches across the southern peninsula are now caved in, tabernacles crooked or buried under rubble, walls marbled with deep cracks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
This is a kind of perfection created under the auspices of the old model: high priests, secret tabernacles, inherited authorities, management by diktat.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2015
May the heart of Jesus’s most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection in every moment in all the tabernacles in the world, even till the end of time.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2011
There was something solemn and reverent about the way they huddled within those shadowed niches, their voices soft enough to be indistinct, as though they were praying in tabernacles.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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We do not know whether the hawk which represented Horus, and in which the soul of the god tabernacled for a time, was distinguished from other hawks by special marks.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Swift, in Gulliver’s Travels, conceived of a land where the intelligence and conscience of Man dwelt in the form of the horse, and the human form tabernacled the instincts of the beast.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
If God is throned in the clouds He is also tabernacled in the dewdrop and palaced in the bud and blossom.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis
The clouds of ignorance were dispelled; wisdom lifted up her voice in the street; knowledge tabernacled on earth.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
"The Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us," is for him the supreme dogma.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
The priesthood was the priesthood; the Blessed Sacrament was the God-Man tabernacling with men.
From Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson
It also makes Him God tabernacling in the flesh; it makes Him the Second Person of the Triune God; it declares in so many words that He is God.
From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant
Under the stands and around the booths, tabernacling beneath costermongers' barrows, and even lying out openly sub dio, were still the hundreds of human beings.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
So again and again Synoptic scenes are retouched and new scenes are added in a way to present a consistent picture of the "tabernacling" of the pre-existent Son of God in human flesh.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
We found some inhabitants tabernacling in our bedstead that annoyed us more than the musquitoes.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark