Lexicographical Neighbors of Benitiers
Literary usage of Benitiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"If the children, for example, which support the benitiers* had been of less size;
if the figures which accompany the * benitiers are vases for holding ..."
2. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1904)
"... the Jacobean jugs, Flemish benitiers, and English Church flagons are especially
beautiful, and concludes his work with a series of valuable Appendices. ..."
3. Paris and Environs, with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1894)
"Thirion, Rom. Cazes, Mich. Dumas, and F. Francois. Near the entrance are
elegant 'benitiers', surmounted with marble statues of Innocence and Purity by ..."
4. The Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1903)
"... Continental churches, presided over by old women, with a store of little brass
crucifixes, beads, books, and benitiers for the faithful to purchase. ..."
5. A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1851)
"A pair of valves of T. gigas, weighing upwards of 500 Ibs. and measuring above
2 feet across, are used as benitiers in the Church of St. Sulpice, Paris. ..."
6. The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1889)
"... continental churches, presided over by old women, with a store of little brass
crucifixes, beads, books, and benitiers for the faithful to purchase. ..."
7. The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by William Henry Withrow (1884)
"116,) which have been interpreted by Roman Catholic writers as benitiers, or
holy-water vessels employed in the services of the ..."
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