benitier

Above the commode were the photographs of the family, arranged in two lines, with an antique china _benitier_ between.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

She noticed that Belasez ignored the existence of her private oratory, made no reverence to the gilded Virgin which stood on a bracket in her wardrobe, and passed the _benitier_ without vouchsafing the least attention to the holy water.

Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Once more the benitier was brought, and the wall sprinkled; whereupon the diabolical noise stopped at once.

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!'

Stray Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

As neither he nor MR. ELLACOMBE give it as found _out_ of this country, allow me to say that it was to be seen on a benitier in the church of Notre Dame at Paris.

Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various 1852

They had a benitier of their own; nor were they allowed to share in the consecrated bread when that was handed round to the believers of the pure race.

An Accursed Race Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

He touched the earth, moistened with the evening dew, with the ends of his fingers, signed himself as if he had been at the _benitier_ in church, and retook alone -- ever alone -- the road to Paris.

The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Breton church near Quimperle, and the tradition was, that it was the hand of a rich Cagot who had dared to take holy water out of the usual benitier, some time at the beginning of the reign of Louis the Sixteenth; which an old soldier witnessing, he lay in wait, and the next time the offender approached the benitier he cut off his hand, and hung it up, dripping with blood, as an offering to the patron saint of the church.

An Accursed Race Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837