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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An altar-slab; the consecrated slab or block of stone constituting an altar. See altar, 2.
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“The altar-stone, once thought to be porphyry, is more likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble.”
“Quick soft hands lifted her and laid her on the altar-stone amidst a bed of flowers.”
“Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh - slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.”
“Xaltotun stood beside the dark altar-stone and stared across the valley, at the dead and wounded men on the terraces, at the grim, blood-stained band at the head of the slopes, at the dusty, steel-clad ranks reforming in the vale below.”
“Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh-slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.”
“Quick, soft hands lifted her and laid her on the altar-stone amidst a bed of flowers.”
“Xaltotun stood beside the dark altar-stone and stared across the valley, at the dead and wounded men on the terraces, at the grim, blood-stained band at the head of the slopes, at the dusty, steel-clad ranks re-forming in the vale below.”
“Between the trees, not far from the altar-stone, sat Phaedra, on the ground, wailing and sobbing, flinging her body to and fro, beating her clenched fists first on the earth and then upon her breast.”
“I then led him a few paces beyond the camp, and bade him be seated on a large stone, a fragment of an old heathen altar-stone.”
“This is by some supposed to refer to the present altar-stone of Purbeck marble.”
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