1 After a mute confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle and thrill of suspense usual at such moments.
2 "Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament," replied the priest, passing his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his bald head.
3 The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.
4 Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint.
5 Katya in just the same way, besides all her care about linen, bedsores, drink, found time the very first day to persuade the sick man of the necessity of taking the sacrament and receiving absolution.
6 The next day the sick man received the sacrament and extreme unction.
7 During the sacrament Levin did what he, an unbeliever, had done a thousand times.
8 He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 9 To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 10 Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
11 Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 12 You had the sacraments and grace and indulgences of the church to aid you.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 13 His soul traversed a period of desolation in which the sacraments themselves seemed to have turned into dried-up sources.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 14 She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments.