altarward

Example Sentences

• "Side galleries are then practically useless. Æsthetically they altogether contradict the altarward tendency of the church."
• "This fact is always shown forth symbolically by the eastward, or altarward position."
• "At twenty-five, Buster was a celebrity bachelor, and a Talmadge sister wedding - even if it involved the non-Hollywood one - was a newsworthy affair. So the media settled in to track the altarward progress of the Keaton-Talmadge sweethearts, though the date for the big event remained to be determined."
• "I am morally certain that if, whilst I was being conducted altarward through that thronged church this morning, anybody had shown any portion of my person the fullest stabbing-qualities of which the largest-sized pin is capable, I should have been thoroughly ignorant of such a demonstration."
• "[…] and I now imagine "dearest Jane" filling my place, tending the wounds I tended, brushing the curly jungle I brushed, loving the excellent little youth I loved, and eventually walking altarward, with the Sergeant stumping gallantly at her side."
• "On the morning of the wedding, when the church was crowded with guests, Lancelot again saw his love. She was leaning upon the arm of Almund, and stepping altarward to the sound of a noble marriage hymn."