Fancy screen that swings round in some churches

Usage examples of censer.

Now if there were several ministers in the church, dressed in such gorgeous colors that I could see them at the distance from the apse at which my limited income compels me to sit, and candles were burning, and censers were swinging, and the platform was full of the sacred bustle of a gorgeous ritual worship, and a bell rang to tell me the holy moments, I should not mind the pillar at all.

Ten or twelve slaves carried round silver vessels like that used by Sencho, while others followed with incense-burning censers and aspergills for sprinkling rose-water.

There were candles and missals, collections plates, beads, lunules, censers, thuribles, aspergillums, and ciboria.

The priests began to move through the ranks of kneeling soldiers, asperging them with rose water from brass censers which they whirled about them on long chains, as indigen hunters whirl bolas around their heads before letting fly at their target.

Patriarch excused himself and returned a few moments later, clad in a white robe, rather than the silver one he had been wearing, and carrying a tear-shaped religious vessel known as a lachrymatory, a canopic urn, a cinerary bowl used to store burial ashes, and a censer of burning incense.

The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day.

He thumbed with appreciation the Lectionary and took down the censer and incense boat and spoon and counted the candles and candlesticks.

Chainer spun the censer a few more times, then yelped as Skellum hit him on the end of his nose with a spare charcoal disc.

The spinning censer created a ten-foot ring of scented smoke with Chainer and Skellum safe in its center.

The thick smoke soon filled the narrow hallway, and Chainer began to swing the censer around his head, as Skellum had shown him.

Without so much as a flicker of an eyelid, Skellum tossed a censer across the room to Chainer.

He continued to casually spin the censer while he waited for Skellum to return and take him back to Cabal City.

Patriarch set the burning censer on the table, then uncorked the crystal ampulla that hung on a chain around his neck, a tiny phial with many facets that contained a blood-red liquid.

But for now, she moved to the East, where a censer released faint wisps of an incense that tugged at the senses, its undertone just slightly different from the usual liturgical blend.

The inundation was in evident dependence on the Sun, and Egypt, environed with arid deserts, like a heart within a burning censer, was the female power, dependent on the influences personified in its God.