Huge plumes of snow blowing from the summits of some mountains looked like the smoke from great incense offerings. |
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When I was a child, my mother would light incense and put the cakes out under the moonlight. |
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Over the hilly five acres grow native black oak, incense cedar, white fir and Coulter, knobcone, sugar and ponderosa pines. |
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My mother keeps me well in stock of incense, candles, charcoal blocks, and altar covers. |
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The other gods were dusty with what looked like incense ash or vibhuti powder. |
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The blue haze of burning incense wreathed the dragon-created roofs of the Cheng Doon Teng temple. |
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These workers are everywhere in the streets, selling such things as candy, shoe laces, toys, fruits, gum, incense or belt buckles. |
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The requirements for altars, incense, and offerings were described to Moses by God. |
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Many of the needle evergreens including yew, arborvitae, hemlock, and incense cedar make fine hedges. |
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Then, I saw the smoke of the incense rise in a spiral, just like the coils of a snake, you know. |
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Smoke like incense coiled from the corner of the room from the dried bunches of herbs he had found in Mary's cold store. |
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The rite involves incense, candles, litanies and novenas, and set hymns, often in Latin. |
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I lit two orange candles and blessed them and also lit an energy incense in my incense burner. |
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The ceramic work of Lee Jeong Do reinterpreted such items as pen rests, incense burners, brush hangers and ink stones. |
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Other bays are brightened by an astonishing number of silver candlesticks, incense burners and vessels. |
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You could also use incense or burn essential oils in a purpose-made burner. |
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You see Thais offering white lotuses, waving incense and kneeling in quiet prayer at the various temples to the Enlightened One. |
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It is replaced by the soft rustle of saris, the smells of incense and saffron, and the Eastern twang of sitars. |
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Spices were used as incense for the sacrificial offerings, which in our time is represented by Tefillah, prayer. |
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Everything from pentacles and talismans to cloaks and incense can be found here at very reasonable prices! |
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The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense. |
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The set also includes a small packet of sandalwood incense, tiny incense holder, votive candle and yoga strap. |
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The smell of incense and sandalwood pervades the air as one walks into the Pudu Mandapam, opposite the Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple. |
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Perfumed with incense and sandalwood and synonymous with soap and silk, it is among the most beautiful cities in the country. |
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Soft-drink and beer cans, food wrappers and scraps, incense sticks and general debris were evident after these sessions. |
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A Greek Orthodox Archbishop spreads incense during a special celebration at New York's Central Park bandshell. |
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The air was thick with incense smoke from joss sticks and everyone was eating. |
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Mel has become quite matey with the woman opposite, Sybille, who writes self help books and whose house smells strongly of incense. |
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Some of the incense is still burning while others are just cold shells, the red and pink sticks thrusting lifeless out of the sand. |
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The lights were dim and incense was burning setting a somber and meditative atmosphere. |
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Often during Mass the thurifer swings the censer to incense the congregation, and sometimes that makes me so mad. |
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It was, and still is, customary for the thurifer then to incense the people in parochial churches. |
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The thurifer carries the thurible and boat when incense is used at the Eucharist or other celebrations. |
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Clouds of incense led the procession with the thurifer swinging full circles and figure eights. |
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The thurifers stand, genuflect, and carry the thurible and incense into the sacristy. |
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The Chinese use yellow melilot medicinally, use it in cosmetics, and burn it as an incense. |
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Charlie is some crazy hippie freak complete with incense and tie-dyed t-shirts. |
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He's holding a bundle of smouldering incense and chanting, dressed in a baggy white shirt and trousers, topped with a gold cap. |
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The priests process round the church, swinging clouds of incense, carrying their elaborate silver Ethiopian crosses and richly bound bibles. |
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A spectacular example is the incense burner in the shape of a beautifully modeled floating crane. |
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Even then, cocoa was a cash crop, the seeds traded for gold, silver, turquoise, maize, oil, beans, incense and cotton. |
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The incense had been burning for a while now, and the damp cottage was full of the sleepy, hypnotic smell that goes with magical workings. |
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Traditionally perfumes were made from plant and animal substances and prepared in the form of waters, oils, unguents, powders, and incense. |
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Lighted candles of myriad colors gathered in a large circle, and a stick of incense stood in the center. |
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The story is told of Jesus being born in Bethlehem and being visited by wise men from the east that brought presents of gold, incense, and myrrh. |
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I've also been experimenting with Autumnal incense, using myrrh and dried oak leaves as a base, and trying out various other ingredients. |
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They found the Christ child in a stable, worshipped him, and presented their gifts of gold, incense and myrrh. |
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Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant? |
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On the bottom shelf was the cardboard carton containing the incense sticks. |
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I seat myself on an old mahogany chair and begin to feel soothed by the sweet, smoky smell of joss stick incense. |
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It had the typical incense smoky smell along with a bit of earthy amber, hibiscus, and a hint of patchouli. |
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The incense will slowly smoulder, filling the room with its delightful fragrance. |
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Behind her, in baskets were ivory tusks, gold, blocks of incense, natron salts and uncut precious stones. |
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She inscribed the patterns on the ground, lit the braziers, and burned the incense, all as instructed. |
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You'll see vendors hawking everything from incense to books on the latest conspiracy theory. |
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He smelled like kerosene, Chai tea, and spliff, and incense, and crackling fires. |
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On the first and 12 th day of every month in the lunar calendar, many people come here to burn incense. |
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After burning incense on the stove, he began to chant, holding out his hands with his palms upward. |
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At 8 a.m. the mayor lit the candles and incense and nine monks led the religious ceremonies. |
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Incense sticks should be safely burned in incense holders and resins can be burned on small pieces of charcoal in metal burners. |
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I hesitated only long enough to grab an incense stick and lighter, and was outside in a minute. |
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She raised both hands above her head, holding incense sticks, while praying. |
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I return to the shrine and edge towards the Brahma statue, the sweet incense smoke creating a haze around it. |
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Ash from incense censers, campfires and fireplaces can be used but I don't recommend them. |
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The crumpling ash from the incense could be heard melding inside the censer. |
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Fender, 52, carries it high over the ground and loose in his hands, like a priest holding the censer while dispensing incense in church. |
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Priests chanted prayers and read from sacred texts as incense wafted from the corners of the temple. |
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The Himyarites prospered in the incense, myrrh and spice trade until the Romans began to open the sea routes through the Red Sea. |
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He found an abalone shell on the beach and uses that for his incense brazier. |
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Once inside the basilica, John Paul's body was placed on a platform before the main altar and was again blessed with holy water and incense. |
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There's an underground honeycomb of meditation cells, where incense drifts through the darkness. |
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Inmates practising paganism will be allowed a hoodless robe, incense and a piece of religious jewellery among their personal possessions. |
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But without a literal idol or incense to burn, what does sports idolatry look like for the one who says he believes Jesus is Lord? |
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The air hangs heavy, thick and impenetrable, as cloying and claustrophobic as incense. |
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This breeze reeked of the incense cast upon the brazier of such sulfurous content to seem as though spewed from the bowels of perdition. |
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The ceiling lights were old yellow incandescent bulbs, and the monastery's little foyer smelled of wax, incense, and unwashed feet. |
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When the time comes, settle yourself in front of the area, light the candle, and open the bottle of perfume or light the incense. |
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Thinking of people close to me, lit a candle and burnt incense in memory of them. |
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We would then all bow before the shrine, and my father would place incense on the altar. |
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Impressionist paintings hung on the walls and sandalwood incense released a sweet scent. |
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Myrrh is a fragrant gum resin used in making incense, perfume, and herbal medicine, and in ancient times it was also employed in embalming. |
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He could see the cloth wrapped crystal next to the burned out incense stick. |
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We step inside and the smell of burning incense hits me like a lightning bolt. |
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I've also dedicated recent writing to her and burned incense to her almost daily. |
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In the morning sunshine, local villagers climbed up to the mountain, burnt incense and prayed. |
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I lit some incense and laid down flowers and choked my way through the Scriptures. |
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The people also held various kinds of burial rituals and burnt incense on special days. |
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The air in the church had been redolent with incense, thick and sweet-smelling. |
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But it returns to a recent past, in a softly lit yoga hall decorated in muted earthly tones and perfumed with incense. |
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The great defender of traditional liturgy could also be its critic when he thought the fog of incense was merely hiding a vacancy at the altar. |
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Automatically, his senses registered the smell of incense wafting through the air. |
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The room was filed with stale smoke and faint incense, mixed with a strong odor of wine and ale. |
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The sweet smell of incense filled Hitomi's nose, making her feel slightly light-headed. |
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She took in one final breath of the scent of the jasmine incense, the scent of the Goddess, one Angharad had adopted for herself. |
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Orthodox priests held a memorial service, and the blue smoke of incense smoke curled in the hot summer air. |
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Luxurious silks drape the walls, candles flicker and the smell of incense fills the air. |
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We're standing in a deserted picnic grove among the cinnamon-colored trunks of incense cedars. |
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It tells us that heaven's worship features white robed presbyters, choral and instrumental music, and incense. |
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The priests and priestesses in Apollo's house of worship burnt incense and led the morning chant to honour the Sun God. |
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Casually he stuck the incense in a brass bowl in front of a plastic Buddha, and drew on his cigarette. |
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Check them out for interesting beads and glasswork, Indian dresses and fresh, hand-rolled incense. |
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The smell of incense filled the room and transported me, in my delirium, back to my youth as a Miami altar boy. |
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You can almost hear the organ playing devotional music in the background, and detect the faintest whiff of incense on the breeze. |
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Family members gather and visit the graves of their ancestors to burn offerings of paper money and incense. |
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There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us. |
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Above them is a large incense container that has been slowly swinging on a chain and exudes a pungent smell that lingers for the duration. |
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They light candles and incense and kneel down to pray before the image. |
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She laid her head against his shoulder and pressed her hand against his pectoral muscle and drank in his smell of new sweat, perfumed oils and incense. |
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Instead, they burn incense and other sweet odors and light candles. |
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Candles, seashells, incense and a miniature Buddha were among the offerings left on the makeshift altar at the base of the tree. |
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I could smell the patchouli oil he was wearing as well as the incense that was burning in the studio. |
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There is not a thurifer in the country who has not at some time created the world's finest incense only to mislay the formula and then forget how they made it. |
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Always interested in the animal mysteries of China, Texier has created bronzes similar to ancient Chinese sculptures, where hippos or oxen carry incense burners on their back. |
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It produces sandarac, a resin used for making varnish and incense. |
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Pennons snapped in the winds, and the smells of incense rose from two vast temples, to the peripheral sound of thousands of voices raised in loving adoration. |
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In the club, the air is smoky and smells of burning apricot incense, and there are ladies and men dressed in clothing that bedazzles and confuses me with its glory. |
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He had dimmed the lights and lit some calming incense burners. |
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Set the incense cone directly atop the lighting point on the trail. |
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The room was lit almost completely by soft candlelight, and the air was perfumed by sweet-smelling incense, and men smoking pipes filled with herbal concoctions. |
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If they had a very special request they purchased a spiral coil of incense which was suspended from the ceiling and burned slowly over a whole week. |
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What was the material of the novice habit, what kind of incense did they inhale, what was on the plate at dinner. |
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I think it was rosemary and frankincense in it perhaps, that the swinging censor of incense, and I just found it all so beautiful and evocative, that ritual going on. |
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There was the flick of a lighter, and I could smell burning incense. |
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A priest comes to the house to bless it with holy water and incense. |
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The portraits and incense sticks of the family shrine, built into the wall of one of the rooms, have been replaced by a vase and contemporary pictures. |
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She always had some sandalwood incense burning when she sang, or wrote. |
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He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist. |
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Until he un-retires again because of boredom and missing the klieg lights and having a car trunk still stuffed with incense. |
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He then lit the incense and let the smoke rise for a few moments before taking it and walking around the room muttering the same words he had spoken before. |
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I never imagined I would be laying here, with the scent of incense and jasmine filling my nose, lying this close to anyone, nearly drowning in them. |
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Biographies have wafted incense around him, or been incensed by him. |
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They light the joss sticks from the yellow candles' strong steady flames and place the incense in the sand, the thin white smoke coiling up to the heavens. |
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Religious articles, holy books, brass lamps, candle stands, incense holders, scented candles and perfume diffusers are also turning out to be much valued presents. |
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Plates, chalices, candleholders, candle snuffers, bells, knives, incense burners, and such items are obviously made for more than just Circle use. |
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My parents were so angry and ashamed of me that they made me kneel in front of our ancestors' graves, ignify, and burn incense for, eighteen generations of live and dead relatives. |
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I am almost certain that it is Anglican, but I was somewhat confused by the noticeboard outside advertising High Mass and Low Mass, and, inside the smell of incense. |
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The worshipers light incense sticks, kneel before the main altar, make a wish, and shake a bamboo cylinder containing fortune sticks until one falls out. |
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Somalis offer a milky tea and burn incense to welcome visitors. |
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I turned on the CD player and watched as Amanda lit the incense. |
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Through a parlour scented with incense, I stepped towards beautifully lit showcases, displaying collections of stainless steel and titanium jewellery. |
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She would periodically show up at the house and stay in the attic, where she hung beads and burned incense. |
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The chapel stank of expensive perfume, incense, and candle wax. |
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There will be a statue of Buddha, candles, and an incense burner. |
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On lakes and rivers, canals and waterways, tiny lotus-shaped boats are set afloat with candles, incense sticks and flowers to honour and entertain the water spirits. |
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The pieces likely to reach the highest prices are a rare Ming celadon incense burner dating from the 15th century and some encrusted martaban jars. |
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Perhaps the perfect comfort food is fresh bread, warm and pliable, filled with airy pockets and yeasty incense, and as satisfying to make as it is to consume. |
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Although single aroma incense and floral waters are not uncommon in Ayurveda, it is more typical to see blends or combinations of several different aromas. |
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I have a secret affection for the older hippie stores where incense strokes your throat as you walk in to check out the miniature Buddhas, candle holders and gauzy dresses. |
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Thousands of years ago, Saudi Arabia fortuitously sat in the middle of the raging incense trade. |
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Every few days he would give me a fresh supply of incense he got directly from India, fragrances I had never before experienced. |
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From the abrazier, pieces of coals were taken and placed in the thurible which the Archbishop used to incense the marble crosses and the congregation. |
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The pungent aroma of incense filled the corridor as the door opened wider. |
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Oud is an Arabic term for incense that is cultivated from the Agarwood tree, which can be found in Indonesia, Cambodia, Brunei and Malaysia. |
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The tree is known by a wide variety of names, among them alligator-tree and alligator wood, incense tree and liquidambar. |
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The oldest written source regarding herbalism and incense is the Indian Vedas, particularly in the Athar-vaveda and the Rigveda. |
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He shellacked them with smoky labdanum, oakmoss and incense black as pitch. |
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A hanging scroll is placed in the tea room's tokonoma, or alcove, together with an incense container and a vase. |
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Also, Hillesland said, the 150-foot-tall incense cedar tree was a danger to surrounding buildings. |
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The most popular pencil wood, incense cedar, is found in the forests of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
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Handcrafted 20 years ago from incense cedars logged on-site, the inn has five roomy guest suites, each with a large spa tub and gas fireplace. |
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The scent includes notes of Sicilian mandarin mixed with oil of neroli flower, Indonesian patchouli and white incense olibanum. |
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She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him. |
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Vestments are worn by the clergy, sung settings are often used and incense may be used. |
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The incense was stored near Aberdeen Harbour for export before Hong Kong developed Victoria Harbour. |
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The incense is burned in an ornate golden censer that hangs at the end of three chains representing the Trinity. |
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The ancient Greeks used it in their baths and burnt it as incense in their temples, believing it was a source of courage. |
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Thyme was also used as incense and placed on coffins during funerals, as it was supposed to assure passage into the next life. |
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A Gospel Acclamation is then sung as the Book of the Gospels is processed, sometimes with incense and candles, to the ambo. |
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Such lamps are kept burning in shrines, whether private or public, and incense sticks or joss sticks are lit from the lamp. |
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They are also described as transporting oils, incense, steel weapons, furs, and slaves. |
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Altars, incense sticks, candles and torches form the axis by sending a column of smoke, and prayer, toward heaven. |
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Combustible bouquets were used by the ancient Egyptians, who employed incense within both pragmatic and mystical capacities. |
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This comprised the initial usage of subterranean plant parts within the fabrication of incense. |
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New herbs like Sarsaparilla seeds, frankincense, and cypress were used by Indians for incense. |
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At around 2000 BCE, Ancient China began the use of incense in the religious sense, namely for worship. |
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Incense usage reached its peak during the Song Dynasty with numerous buildings erected specifically for incense ceremonies. |
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Trading in incense materials comprised a major part of commerce along the Silk Road and other trade routes, one notably called the Incense Route. |
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This incense can vary in the duration of its burning with the texture of the material. |
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The incense mixture is then rolled out into a slab approximately 1 cm thick and left until the slab has firmed. |
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Small quantities of water are combined with the fragrance and incense base mixture and kneaded into a hard dough. |
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Traditionally, the bamboo core of cored stick incense is prepared by hand from Phyllostachys heterocycla cv. |
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Flames on the incense are then fanned or blown out, with the incense continuing to burn without a flame on its own. |
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In most Arab countries, incense is burned in the form of scented chips or blocks called bakhoor. |
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Along with the introduction of Buddhism in China came calibrated incense sticks and incense clocks. |
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Though they contain no sandalwood, they often include the Chinese character for sandalwood on the label, as a generic term for incense. |
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Tibetan incense refers to a common style of incense found in Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. |
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In Japan incense appreciation folklore includes art, culture, history, and ceremony. |
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Sandalwood is one of the most calming incense ingredients and lends itself well to meditation. |
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This utility led to the use of incense in funerary ceremonies because the incense could smother the scent of decay. |
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The regular burning of direct combustion incense has been used for chronological measurement in incense clocks. |
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Both ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian mythology suggest the usage of incense by goddesses and nymphs. |
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Different types of incense burn at different rates therefore different incense are used for different practices. |
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The study found gaseous aliphatic aldehydes, which are carcinogenic and mutagenic, in incense smoke. |
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In 2015, the South China University of Technology found toxicity of incense to Chinese hamsters ovary cells to be even higher than cigarettes. |
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They often depict traditional Saudi items such as coffee pots, incense burners, palm trees, etc. |
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As soon as those on the raft began to burn incense, they also lit braziers on the shore, so that the smoke hid the light of day. |
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According to Herodotus, both cinnamon and cassia grew in Arabia, together with incense, myrrh, and labdanum, and were guarded by winged serpents. |
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Smoke is used in rituals where incense, sage, or resin is burned to produce a smell for spiritual purposes. |
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Intentional air pollution is introduced with the use of air fresheners, incense, and other scented items. |
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In addition, it has a raised brick platform at the front of the memorial for offerings such as sandalwood incense and fruit. |
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Native Indian plant frank incense has proven anti-inflammatory effects and is widely used in the treatment of back pain and rheumatism. |
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A butter bean bald baby, the fidgety incense of childhood, the smell of burning angels. |
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The collection of incense burners are made of borosilicate, a special glass that is clear and heat-resistant. |
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Frankincense is a kind of incense, which is to say room freshener. |
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Although several studies have not shown a link between incense and cancer of the lung, many other types of cancer have been directly linked to burning incense. |
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The times that incense can burn ranges from minutes to months. |
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One common motif is incense as a form of sacrificial offering to a deity. |
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Ketoret was the incense offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and is stated in the Book of Exodus as a mixture of stacte, onycha, galbanum and frankincense. |
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Xingtian Temple, or City of Ten Thousand Buddhas do not use incense. |
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Highly scented Chinese incense sticks are used by some Buddhists. |
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For over two thousand years, the Chinese have used incense in religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, Traditional Chinese medicine, and daily life. |
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The incense dough is then pressed into shaped forms to create cone and smaller coiled incense, or forced through a hydraulic press for solid stick incense. |
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The raw materials are powdered and then mixed together with a binder to form a paste, which, for direct burning incense, are then cut and dried into pellets. |
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The Babylonians used incense while offering prayers to divining oracles. |
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One of the oldest extant incense burners originates from the 5th dynasty. |
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Between January and February alone Mr Dunn had axed six 100-year-old trees due to wind damage, including a 160-year-old incense cedar and a rare Japanese sawara cypress tree. |
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The narrow bylane leading to the temple in Bur Dubai was packed with people buying flowers, incense sticks, lamps, coconuts and other items required for Diwali rituals. |
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The forms taken by incense differ with the underlying culture, and have changed with advances in technology and increasing diversity in the reasons for burning it. |
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Enter the dry green shade of the Ponderosa pines, the incense cedar. |
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Moreover, like ambergris, the resin could be burned as an incense. |
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Meanwhile, the Bishop of Muenster had to defend himself with an incense bowl as a man attackedhimwithastickduring Easter service in the German city's cathedral. |
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Giraffes, zebras and incense were exported to the Ming Empire of China, which established Somali merchants as leaders in the commerce between East Asia and the Horn. |
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They were very young and very quiet and I was not in the mood, so I went down to the incense seller, near Kmart, and bought a couple of boxes of nag champa. |
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The rare incense was found inside a Roman cof-coffin lifted from a field in North Warwickshire alongside olive oil, pistachio resin, two bangles and some milk teeth. |
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The Eau de Parfum features top notes of bergamot, incense, Mirabelle plum and black raspberry with mid notes of amber, burgundy rose, geranium and peony. |
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Traditionally, the base of the incense used is the resin of Boswellia sacra, also known as frankincense, but the resin of fir trees has been used as well. |
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Fragrance may refer to the sweet taste of the harbour's fresh water estuarine influx of the Pearl River or to the incense from factories lining the coast of northern Kowloon. |
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The wooden case most likely would be made of western incense cedar from California, the eraser perhaps a mixture of South American rubber and Italian pumice stone. |
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But in the prayer-room there was no furniture at all, the ground was of course sacred, and he found the smell of incense and sandalwood insupportable. |
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The liturgy is almost always performed in front of an object or objects of veneration and accompanied by offerings of light, incense, water and food. |
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They put on it four lighted braziers in which they burned much moque, which is the incense of these natives, and also resin and many other perfumes. |
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The priests performed public ceremonies that incorporated feasting, bloodletting, incense burning, music, ritual dance, and, on certain occasions, human sacrifice. |
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