holy dish

Example Sentences

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This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sher-Thursday.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

Then the bishop took up the shining vessel from the table, and came to Galahad; and the knight kneeled down and took of the food that was within the holy dish.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sheer-Thursday.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

This is," said He, "the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb at the Last Supper.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo

This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sher-thursday.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander