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Police launched an investigation in June and arrested eight people responsible for handling donations at the revered Hindu shrine in the northern city of Ayodhya.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

One of the things Kreitzman is rarely seen without is a neck shrine, a chunky personalised sculpture to wear around the neck.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The ceremonies will then move to the Iraqi shrine cities of Karbala and Najaf on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Mounted slightly above head height and illuminated like a shrine, it flickers among Art Deco radio, fierce guardian and modern sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

But there is no doubt that the Nazi top brass treated Bayreuth as a shrine.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The remains of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been carried through two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in neighbouring Iraq, as funeral ceremonies continue for a fifth day.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The sector, which already weathered the closure of mosques and shrines in the pandemic, is a rare type of tourism in a country reeling from decades of conflicts.

From Barron's ● May 4, 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

‘You’re really going to try building shrines for all the minor gods?’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Let’s live to-day so it shall be, When shrined within the memory, As free from self-inflicted sorrows As are our hopes of our to-morrows.

From The Girl Wanted by Waterman, Nixon

Yes, Liberty shrined his parting breath, And Texas his fainting cry— Yes, Fame hath torn his young name from death, The brave can never die!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

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

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

Cecilia reads it until each comforting assertion is shrined within her heart and doubt is no longer possible.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

Yet we cannot forget thee, for, shrined in the heart, Is the memory of virtues that will not depart,— Generosity, candor, integrity, worth, An assemblage of all that is lovely on earth.

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul

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 Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"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 Lanier, Sidney

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 Rossetti, William Michael