1 The rector would be there in a cope of black and gold and there would be tall yellow candles on the altar and round the catafalque.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 2 He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as boatbearer, the evening of the Procession to the little altar in the wood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 3 But to drink the altar wine out of the press and be found out by the smell was a sin too: but it was not terrible and strange.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 4 The Blessed Sacrament had been removed from the tabernacle and the first benches had been driven back so as to leave the dais of the altar and the space before it free.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 5 In a dark corner of the chapel at the gospel side of the altar a stout old lady knelt amid her copious black skirts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 The yellow gas-flames arose before his troubled vision against the vapoury sky, burning as if before an altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 7 Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hair-oil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 8 Father Arnall sat at a table to the left of the altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 9 The priest rose and, turning towards the altar, knelt upon the step before the tabernacle in the fallen gloom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 The candles on the high altar had been extinguished but the fragrance of incense still floated down the dim nave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 11 The altar was heaped with fragrant masses of white flowers; and in the morning light the pale flames of the candles among the white flowers were clear and silent as his own soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 12 He knelt before the altar with his classmates, holding the altar cloth with them over a living rail of hands.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 13 Cranly pushed solemnly through the throng of students, linking Stephen and Temple like a celebrant attended by his ministers on his way to the altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 There he lay, solemn and copious, vested as for the altar, his large hands loosely retaining a chalice.
15 He was sober, thrifty and pious; he went to the altar every first Friday, sometimes with her, oftener by himself.