votarist
Example Sentences
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We paused in such awe as would seize on a pale votarist, visiting some holy shrine at midnight; if she beheld animated and smiling, the image which she worshipped.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
They left me then when the grey-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer’s weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus’ wain.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus' wain.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Again, idle votarist would easily become idol votarist— `I am no idle votarist.'—Timon, iv.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
For he, great votarist, intent On strictest rule his stern life spent.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
