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Meanings of orison in English
Usage of orison in English
1
Here, amid the cool stillness, the running water murmurs its unceasing orison.
2
Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing.
3
Like all the older directors, he had to say the orison in his turn.
4
Whilst in her lap, he poured out his morning orison.
5
Then follows a chaplet of three repetitions, twice repeated, and this long day's orison is done.
6
In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under a triple coating of daubing paint.
7
It was, however, the best I could hit upon, and I directed my steps towards the Farnham orison.
8
That mighty pause before the class,-thatorison and benediction-howmuch of my life it has been and made.
9
A dreamy orison enshrines my heart.
10
His words had the sound of a prayer, but it was the orison of a knight to his lady.
11
This is my orison.
12
In the intervening period, it was for some years in the service of science, the noble orison that dispels the darkness.
13
Five men jailed for refusing to end their protest remain in orison after refusing to purge their contempt at the High Court today.
14
Your money shall go to him, and with every dollar of it that he squanders, there shall arise an earnest orison to you.
15
After the bath, he stands erect before the advancing dawn, facing the sun as it dances upon the horizon, and offers his unspoken orison.
16
As to mental prayer, her whole life was one continued orison; ever in communion with God, she never lost the sense of His presence.
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Orison through the time