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
On a recent Sunday, he led chants and praise in the tabernacle on the foundation’s farm located in Liberta’s lush agricultural district.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
The materials used to make the tabernacle — gold, diamonds and other precious stones and metals — were donated by the church’s parishioners in 1888.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
“So human!” they were saving of the voice from their electric tabernacle.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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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The tabernacled stalls, which eighteenth-century vandalism had respected, vanished utterly before the restoring mania of the Gothic revivalist, even their traditional position and order being changed.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
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
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
In the high carved stone pulpit are tabernacled recesses, once enclosing figures, but now containing 'royal badges and devices'; and both screen and pulpit were coloured and gilded, and are rather dimmed by time.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
While the body is the same as that in which the soul tabernacled, it will undergo transformation.
From Exposition of the Apostles Creed by James Dodds
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
Ah, there is no tabernacling here with Jesus, nor yet with Moses or Elias!
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
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
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