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Examples
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She was called the idole of the Temple, and her taste for letters gave her also the title of Minerve savante.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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I used to have some hope for TSU but it looks like they are just another idole worshipping party the idle being ex-President Lee.
China Post Rips Ma Administration Michael Turton 2009
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Voici une petite presentation d'abord par Jean-Pierre Dionnet (mon idole!!)
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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And within the said chamber they place a chest long and broad like vnto a table: and behinde the saide chest towardes the South stands their principall idole: which I sawe at Caracaram, and it was as bigge as the idole of Saint Christopher.
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And so they place other idoles round about the foresaid principal idole, being all of them finely gilt ouer with pure golde: and vpon the saide chest, which is in manner of a table, they set candles and oblations.
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Of a strange and vncouth idole: and of certaine customes and ceremonies.
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And changing mine Inne or lodging the same day, I tooke vp mine abode neere vnto another idole-Temple.
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I will describe vnto you those rites and ceremonies, which are common vnto all their idole-Temples: and then the superstitions of the foresaid Iugures, which be, as it were, a sect distinguished from the rest They doe all of them worship towards the North, clapping their hands together, and prostrating themselues on their knees vpon the earth, holding also their foreheads in their hands.
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Also a certaine Nestorian priest, which had bin in Catay, saide that in that countrey there is an idole of so huge a bignes, that it may be seen two daies iourney before a man come at it.
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Going vpon a time towards the foresayd idole-temple, I found certain priests sitting in the outward portal.
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