"Ara" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... declared, and he had even mixed in the potions given to such girl some little fragments of the clothes of the venerable man. On the other hand, according to the usage of religious families, they had carried into the chamber of the dying person the Santo-Bambino del'Ara Coeli, demanding of these last resources of the faithful a cure no longer in the reach of human science to bestow. Let us return to the bed of the dying girl, whom we find in a profound sleep, from which she shall soon awaken to relate with smiles on her lips ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... "Stream I'' is situated, according to Professor Kapteyn, in right ascension 85, declination south 11, which places it just south of the constellation Orion; while the apex of "Stream II'' is in right ascension 260, declination south 48, placing it in the constellation Ara, south of Scorpio. The two apices differ very nearly 180 in right ascension and about 120 in declination. The discovery of these vast star-streams, if they really exist, is one of the most extraordinary in modern astronomy. It offers the correlation of stellar movements ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss
... he continued, "if you be the great king who sends Ara, the lightning; who makes the great noise and the mighty winds, and sends the waters down upon the jungle people when the days are dark and it is cold. Tell me, Goro, ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... extra-temporal existence, in Rev. iv. 11: "Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they were ([Greek: esan] is the true reading) and were created." There is also a very interesting passage in Eusebius (Proep. Ev. xi. 19): [Greek: kai outos ara en ho logos kath' hon aei onta ta gignomena egeneto, hosper Herakleitos an axioseie.] This is so near to the words of St. John's prologue as to suggest that the apostle, writing at Ephesus, is here referring deliberately to the lofty doctrine of the great Ephesian ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... ago a party of tourists, including the Croftons and ourselves; visited several of the grand old churches, so important in the history of Roman architecture of classic ages. The first we entered was the church of the Ara Coeli, said to occupy the site of the ancient temple of Jupiter Feretrius. It was a gloomy old structure with long rows of pillars of Etruscan design. On ascending the long flight of steep stairs on one ...
— Lady Rosamond's Secret - A Romance of Fredericton • Rebecca Agatha Armour
... Pedro como fuera de si, y se acerco al ara, y trepando por ella subio hasta el escabel de la imagen. Todo alrededor suyo se revestia de formas quimericas y horribles; todo era tinieblas y luz dudosa, mas imponente aun que la obscuridad. Solo la Reina de los cielos, suavemente ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... little wonder for that fact! Your father will sacrifice you without a tear,—he cares but for pictures. And Mata is helpless,—Mata cannot help her babe! Ara! It is a ...
— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa |
