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Distinguished by a red-tiled facade and paper lanterns hanging overhead, the shrine had offering cups arranged in rows on a crimson table and a bronze urn spouting wisps of incense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Two blocks from my hotel I found another earth god shrine, no bigger than a kitchen cabinet, at the base of an apartment building wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

On Saturday, China's foreign ministry said the nation "strongly condemns" Takaichi's offering and ministers' visit to the shrine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Awka-Etiti is home to a sacred forest surrounding a shrine dedicated to a deity known as Nguma.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The shrine was a low, open shed, its mud roof and walls covered with dried palm fronds.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Taipei’s grand temples like Longshan and Xingtian are only part of the city’s religious fabric, so one afternoon I went in search of the smaller shrines tucked into its quieter corners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

In a salty touch, the first thing Kenna does is remove his roadside cross, claiming he hated memorial shrines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

In Osaka, Japan, young women dressed in traditional kimono took part in a Shinto ritual procession to mark the end of the year at Sumiyoshi Taisha, one of Japan's oldest Shinto shrines.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

As far as he could see there was nothing but bundles and stacks and more bundles neatly placed like little abandoned shrines in the late day, in the warm-blowing wind.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

His body was laid to rest with a sumptuous splendour;737 his relics, embalmed or shrined, were venerated with an almost idolatrous homage.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Here Auld Wat, Sir Walter's grandsire seven times removed, reigned a king among Border reivers, whose deeds of derring-do have been long shrined by the balladists, and graven deep on the tablets of memory.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

The portrait I took down from its shrined position; the Damascus daggers I put again into their places, and the Mandarin's kimono I folded carefully into a package.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

He had shrined it fittingly in his home, with flowers and candles about it, and adored it daily.

From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

Mother, mother, thou art kind, Thou art standing in the room,— In a molten glory shrined, That rays off into the gloom!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me, Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea By rose-breaths shrining maidens like to thee!"

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer—may that day be long in coming!

From In the Border Country by W. S.

The wisest soul, by anguish torn,   Will soon unlearn the lore it knew; And when the shrining casket's worn,   The gem within will tarnish too.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son,    Once so folded from all harms     In her shrining arms.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son, Once so folded from all harms, In her shrining arms.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson