shrine

"It's important not to mix politics with religion," said David de Santos from under his cowboy hat, after walking 50 kilometers in 24 hours to reach the shrine.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

People of many faiths make their way to the Muslim shrine Haji Ali.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Down a quiet residential lane in central Taipei, behind the stalls of a farmers market, I found a shrine to the area’s Taoist earth god.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

On the wall near the Triple Crown winner’s stall was a little shrine to Man o’ War and Brushup, War Admiral’s mother.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Uttarakhand, a Himalayan state which borders China and Nepal, is home to some of Hinduism's holiest shrines and attracts millions of pilgrims every year.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

Cherry flowers at ancient temples and shrines in Kyoto are particularly popular among visitors and locals.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Wherefore her heart, that had shrined a god, was now empty.

From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Edna Kingsley Wallace

I say 'mutatis mutandis', because the historical development of a group of imaginary concepts shrined in tradition and romance can never be quite the same as that of the people who conceive them.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray

Touch not the ark where purity in woman's form is shrined!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The golden air is thick with suggestions of dim, celestial faces, but nothing mars the imposing solitude of the Queen of Heaven, shrined alone, throned in the luminous azure.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

The million-tinted pearl of ocean Lies shrined within its mortal shell, And sails the deep in wavy motion, Responsive to each tidal swell.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

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.

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

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

"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

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