viaticum

Example Sentences

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The voice of the poet deepens steadily right up to his viaticum, delivered to the world at war: We live in a camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had lost their last cent, and the directors of the establishment, who generously send ruined gamblers back to their respective countries, had handed over the viaticum to them for their return.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente

He asked for the viaticum, and reconciliation was granted; and almost in the same moment his perfidy was renounced by his mouth and dissolved by his death.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

It was a viaticum for the Middle Ages and a signal for the Renaissance.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

He said the mass, and paused when he came to the viaticum.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)