What is "hallow"

Usage examples of "hallow".

Clive was safely married off to Harriet, and Susannah Ballister would never taint the hallowed Mann-Formsby family tree.

From the time when Avenveres still stood, they kept the gates awake, hallowed the longstones, the moors, the hills, the twilight and the moon.

Much like his fellow Mainer, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, his background did not include the hallowed halls of West Point.

He turned northward, toward the Hallow Hills and the cliff beneath the milkwood groves where the heart of the battle had raged, certain that soon or late, if he followed this course, he would rejoin Tek.

Zod the singer to husband as her second mate, while the unicorns still lived in the Hallow Hills by the sacred well, in and around the milkwood groves that now are called the Wyvern Wood.

When a group of natives have been robbed of them by thoughtless white men and have found the sacred store-house empty, they have tried to kill the traitor who betrayed the hallowed spot to the strangers, and have remained in camp for a fortnight weeping and wailing for the loss and plastering themselves with pipeclay, which is their token of mourning for the dead.

Although each river-cloven vale, with streams Arrowy glancing to the blue Aegean, Each hallowed mountain, the abode of gods, Pelion and Ossa fringed with haunted groves, The height, spring-crowned, of dedicate Olympus, And pleasant sun-fed vineyards, were to him Familiar as his own face in the stream, Nathless he paused and asked the maid what path Might lead him from the forest.

The second great work of Servius was the extension of the Pomoerium, or hallowed boundary of the city, and the completion of the city by incorporating with it the Quirinal, Viminal, and Esquiline Hills.

Because, in the other sacraments, the matter is hallowed by the utterance of certain words, and being thus hallowed produces the sacramental effect.

Now sins cannot be hallowed, for they are opposed to the effect of the sacrament, viz.

The general introduction of cooking stoves, and other stoves and apparatus for warming houses, within the last twenty years, which we acknowledge to be a great acquisition in comfort as well as in convenience and economy, has been carried to an extreme, not only in shutting up and shutting out the time-honored open fireplace and its broad hearthstone, with their hallowed associations, but also in prejudice to the health of those who so indiscriminately use them, regardless of other arrangements which ought to go with them.

Then we tumble onto the gymnastic mat that is conveniently lying on the floor and have the sweetest sexual experience ever to occur within the hallowed halls of Pineville High.

When you entered the hallowed landscaping of Nob Hill, life slowed down and became mellow, mosquitoes disappeared, temperatures in summertime were reduced by at least ten degrees, the sidewalks had no cracks, the streets were freshly paved, all lawns sported a uniform cut according to the covenants, and not a single dandelion marred the greensward thanks to the massive applications of Life Erase, the latest domestic herbicide to toxify our exhausted planet.

Its proponents were a group of British astronomers at Cambridge still a hallowed center of learning under the Protectoratenamed Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle.

Cults blossomed into true Communions that grew at exponential rates, until another star was claimed by a Dyson swarm of the Hallowed Vasties.