altarlike

Five men approach a wooden altarlike table to the right of the stand and remove a white tablecloth to reveal several trays filled with tiny plastic water cups and bite-sized pieces of white bread on small silver platters.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Rising altarlike out of the scorched ground, somber and gray.

The Hollow Roberts, Nora 2008

What every test had deemed ordinary limestone speared up, then spread altarlike in the quieting light of the spring evening.

The Hollow Roberts, Nora 2008

On one altarlike rock, there are offerings left by the Huicholes, who leave personal effects the way other Mexicans leave them in cemeteries: jewelry, a piece of corn, coins, a cigarette.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

On one altarlike rock, there are offerings left by the Huicholes, who leave personal effects the way other Mexicans leave them in cemeteries: jewelry, a piece of corn, coins, a cigarette.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

Displayed on mantel or table with the Bible, a taper, sprigs of galax, so that the effect was altarlike.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Displayed on mantel or table with the Bible, a taper, sprigs of galax, so that the effect was altarlike.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

There was an altarlike shelf below it bearing several weapons, and upon which a number of candles were burning.

Prince of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1991

An altarlike table stood before a translur cent block of lilac stone, a rectangular cube larger than the huge hlllman who gaped at it.

Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

She would arrange these in the altarlike temple she had set up - Parker pens, bottles of blue-black Quink, pencils, hunting rifles - all mixed in with gods, sacred threads, and marigolds.

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