votive lamp

Hindus used it in votive lamps and considered the oil sacred.

Hundreds of smoky, scented votive lamps hang from the ceiling.

I sat watching the familiar red-and-gold votive lamps flicker and blink.

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An icon of Scylla's hung on the wall, much darkened by the votive lamps of the small shrine before it.

The chapel is covered by brick vaulting in the center of which hangs a votive lamp from a plaster pendant.

Light after light gradually twinkles forth; here a taper from a balconied window; there a votive lamp before the image of a Saint.

A votive lamp, made in silver sheet and housed in the sacristy, was believed to be St. Sylvester's tiara.

Votive lamps are kept lit on each side of a picture of the deceased, their tenacious and fragile flames symbolizing the affection of the living."

Suddenly it occurred to Kasimir that this light had a strong resemblance to the Old World votive lamp on Ardneh's altar in the White Temple.

A votive lamp permanently lit on this tower commemorates the miraculous rescue of a baby girl from a scimmia 'pet monkey' that had carried her off to its top.

The slightly dusty jumble of weapons, wood carvings, musical instruments (some with very fine ivory inlays), votive toys, ivory temple models and votive lamps can serve as a relaxation.

It is a seafarers' church, where pilgrims to Compostela crossed the water for a short cut down the Medoc; above one of the altars a model sailing ship hangs like a votive lamp.

This image traditionally was associated with a miracle: it was once at the river's edge with a votive lamp, however during the flood of 1557, while submerged, the fire in the lamp was not extinguished.

At the bottom of the stairs, encircled by dozens of smoky, scented votive lamps, a rock-hewn sepulchre marks the tomb of the Virgin (though this is also claimed by the Church of the Dormition, see page 37).

Votive lamps 284 Gene Wolfe burned again before that abandoned Window now, their bright flames stabbing upward from the blue glass as straight as swords; thuribles lifted slender pale columns of sweet smoke from the four corners of the stage.

At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was exactly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.