She slept well and arose refreshed, as a consecrated spirit always should and sometimes does.
"Mon amie," said he, "none knows what I have done save you and myself: the pleasure is consecrated to us two, unshared and unprofaned.
Père Silas did say that his vocation was almost that of a priest—that his life was considered consecrated.
The ghost must have been built out some ages ago, for there were houses all round now; but certain convent-relics, in the shape of old and huge fruit-trees, yet consecrated the spot; and, at the foot of one—a Methuselah of a pear-tree, dead, all but a few boughs which still faithfully renewed their perfumed snow in spring, and their honey-sweet pendants in autumn—you saw, in scraping away the mossy earth between the half-bared roots, a glimpse of slab, smooth, hard, and black.
And how this little house, consecrated aforetime by love and joy, had been re-consecrated for her by her happiness and sorrow!
" "This house was builded and consecrated by love," said Owen.
But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.
"When I was a child I heard an old minister say that a house was not a real home until it had been consecrated by a birth, a wedding and a death.
Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
The 14th of February, eve of the departure, was consecrated entirely to repose, and—thanksgiving addressed by the colonists to the Creator.
The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair.
Dorothea had observed the animus with which Will's part in the painful story had been recalled more than once; but she had uttered no word, being checked now, as she had not been formerly in speaking of Will, by the consciousness of a deeper relation between them which must always remain in consecrated secrecy.
If it should turn out that he was freed from all danger of disgrace—if he could breathe in perfect liberty—his life should be more consecrated than it had ever been before.
Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: "I am sinful and nought—a vessel to be consecrated by use—but use me!
But it would be difficult to convey to those who never heard him utter the word "business," the peculiar tone of fervid veneration, of religious regard, in which he wrapped it, as a consecrated symbol is wrapped in its gold-fringed linen.
All people, young or old (that is, all people in those ante-reform times), would have thought her an interesting object if they had referred the glow in her eyes and cheeks to the newly awakened ordinary images of young love: the illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry, as the pathetic loveliness of all spontaneous trust ought to be.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
It came from the Latin augustus meaning 'consecrated, venerable' which gave rise to the English adjective august, 'respected and impressive'.
Now for that consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living love, What have I?
