Sacred figures of the Greek Church

Usage examples of ikons.

Even things he had seen with his own eyes, when someone recounted them to him, seemed to unfold from another point of view, as if he were standing on the top of one of those mountains in ikons, and could see the stones as the apostles on the mountains saw them, and not as the faithful observer did, from below.

It was all gilded, decorated in marvelous colors, thronged with little ikons that bring happiness, and, naturally, with the portrait of the Tsar, the dear Little Father.

Between the set of scales on the counter and a heap of little blocks of wood used for figuring the accounts of this singular business were ungilded ikons, oxidized silver crosses, and Byzantine pictures representing scenes from the Old and New Testaments.

In the half-light of the shop a melancholy shadow leaned over the ikons on the counter.

Alexis to make you a gift, I would offer you these two poor ikons that are certainly from the convent of Troitza at its best period.

So saying Rouletabille wrapped up the two little ikons and put them in his pocket.

The others, older men, were of the physical type of Christs, not the animated Christs of Occidental painters, but those that are seen on the panels of the Byzantine school or fastened on the ikons, sculptures of silver or gold.

He took the two ikons, of Saint Luke and of the Virgin, from his pocket and prayed to them.

I have two little ikons here for them, and I am going to write a letter to each of them, if you will permit it.

Rouletabille kissed his ikons and handed them to Annouchka along with the letters.

Ah, at the first opportunity I must send her a dispatch of my return - before she receives those ikons, and the letters announcing my death.

After I had explained to him my errand he said nothing, but moved away towards the ikons, and began to read the exhortation: whereupon I overcame my shame, and told him all that was in my heart.

They also ceased to go to church, and took their ikons to the village priest, saying they did not want them any more.

Mitri crossed himself three times, turning towards the corner in which the ikons hung, and repeated some utterly meaningless words, which he called prayers, to the Trinity and the Virgin, the Creed and our Father.