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reliquary
1. in its reliquary – I prayed before it just this morning
2. left, ‘- has just this morning checked the reliquary and has
3. Leonardo pulled a reliquary out of his pocket and handed it to me; told me that there was a talisman inside that would help me to pass unnoticed in front of the creatures guarding the giant’s gate
4. I squeezed Leonardo’s reliquary in an attempt to emulate his proximity, but in doing so, it opened and a slight line of light joined the one emanating from the moon
5. With the light of the moon and the light of the reliquary I could walk without problems in the deep dark of the night
6. I took my hands behind my neck and, to my dismay; the reliquary was no longer there
7. She bought chaplets and wore amulets; she wished to have in her room, by the side of her bed, a reliquary set in emeralds that she might kiss it every evening
8. Godwyn retrieved the reliquary from Earl Roland and placed it at Anthony’s feet
9. He placed in the centre of the altar a reliquary cross, a bejewelled gold crucifix with a core of wood from the
10. The prior would unlock the cupboard and remove the reliquary
11. As the monks and nuns sang, he opened the compartment under the high altar –working by touch – and took out the ivory-and-gold reliquary
12. As the chanting filled the church, he righted the reliquary, which seemed
13. Godwyn tried to close the lid of the reliquary, but it had buckled and did not quite fit
14. He also took the sacred relics, including the bones of St Adolphus in their priceless reliquary
15. Perhaps the next tenant got an impeccably clean range, a massive reliquary for a poet’s last reflection and a strand of light brown hair caught on a metal hinge
16. Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only
17. He even observed the changes in her breathing, watching the reliquary that hung on her batiste blouse as he looked at her without dissimulation over the book he pretended to read, and he committed the calculated impertinence of changing his seat in the dining room so that he would face her