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"Shrine" Quotes from Famous Books

... the contrary, was too great a love for the present world. Unfortunately, she had fixed her heart upon what is too evanescent for the love of an immortal. Youth, beauty, and the graces of fashion were the shadows at whose shrine she worshiped, though the substance was gone. Thus precious time was spent in seeking to repair its own breaches, and she saw not that they widened day by day—saw not how the cunning device by which she sought to hide the footprint of years, only left that foot-print ...

— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

... on alone two days and two nights, and nigh morn she was seized with a swoon of weariness, and fell forward with her face to the earth, and lay there prostrate, even as one that is adoring the shrine; and it was on the sands of the desert she was lying. It chanced that the Chieftain of a desert tribe passed at midday by the spot, and seeing the figure of a damsel unshaded' by any shade of tree or herb or tent-covering, and prostrate on the sands, he reined his steed and leaned forward to ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... his household shrine Here Cowley lies, closed in a little den; A life too empty and his lot combine To give him rest from all ...

— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley

... she's just elegant," declared Cathie Harrison, who had privately done a good deal of worshiping at Mrs. Fisher's shrine. ...

— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney

... an initiate to the mysteries of this inner shrine would have wondered to the degree of amazement, for this newcomer was an ostensible enemy of Bas Rowlett's whom in other company ...

— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

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