noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
altar boy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar .
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The high Baroque altar with its twisted columns in varied marbles is by members of the Platzer family.
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The red sanctuary lamp glowed ahead of them, to the left of the high altar .
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It has a high altar with fine gilded carving and a sixteenth-century sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary.
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Dhani and Ian broke into a run, taking the high altar steps three at a time.
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The burial place was surrounded by the crypt and above it, in the church, was the high altar .
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He thought of little Rosamund and went to the high altar where the great missal lay.
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It has a fine gilded carving on the high altar .
main
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The latter's relics rest on the main altar .
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In 1106 the remains were all interred near the main altar of the new church.
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Brandl painted the Holy Family on the main altar and the picture of St Theresa.
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The main altar of 1760 is by J. Kramolín and portrays St Clement himself.
■ NOUN
boy
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In grade school Gary had served as an altar boy .
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My boyfriend was an altar boy .
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Yet he ended his days at daily mass, even serving for the priest when the altar boy of the day overslept.
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When Michael had been an altar boy he had also stolen the lead from the church roof!
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The civil case also was looming, filed by six former altar boys against Llanos and the archdiocese.
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But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys .
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In all, more than 20 young men, many of them former altar boys , came forward with similar stories.
cloth
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Some one had hung up all these colourful banners, and altar cloths , and pictures of knights and castles.
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Aren't these lovely altar cloths and tapestries?
■ VERB
kneel
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Then we knelt before the altar of the can - and pulled the handle.
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She was a child again and she was kneeling at the altar waiting to receive her first Communion.
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Statues of unknown saints looked gravely down from their alcoves as Jacques and Marie-Christine knelt reverently before the altar .
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Binh and I knelt before the family altar and bowed three times.
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There were maybe twenty or twenty-five people kneeling around the altar .
place
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A new candle was placed on the altar as I stood at the door.
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After this solemn function, the body was placed above a side altar in a crystal urn.
stand
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It is said that he stood before the altar and for a moment the Blade called to him.
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A charred baby carriage still stood on the altar steps, exactly where it had been found after the massacre.
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As the man reached the floor and stood beside the altar , he turned and gazed out at them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was my job to light the candles on the altar .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the pews have been removed from inside but the font and the altar rail remain.
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Aren't these lovely altar cloths and tapestries?
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Beside the altar , four small wreaths rested on brass stands.
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Corrada was not altogether comfortable with altar girls.
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Graceful, narrow arches supported by Corinthian columns flank its altar and frame its windows.
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She will not have her altar stained with human blood.
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The table drew the eye like an altar .