"Alleluiah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... familiar with a large number of biblical names, such as Adam and Abraham and Isaac, and very many more, not forgetting the very common John, Joseph, Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath. The discovery of the New World has further familiarised us all with chocolate and tomato, which are Mexican; and with potato, which is probably old Caribbean. These facts have to ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... quaint example of this occurred in a recent revival, where the exclamation "We believe in the Word of God from cover to cover, Alleluia!" received the fervent reply, "And ...
— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill
... after these things I heard a great voice of much people in Heaven, saying, Alleluia-" — Revelation, ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri
... plain old Gregorian tones with which many of us are so familiar at home. I found the words welling up in my mind: "The voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." I was glad there was no one with me as we dispersed, to speak to me. I could not have answered, my heart was too full. But I went back to the Maison Carree, and looked again at it for long, and then realised, in a way I had never realised ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... strife is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song, And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia." ...
— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester
... me!' An' then—an' then—," here Josey paused and struck his staff violently into the earth,—"an' then there's a noise as of a mighty wind rushin', an' the angels all falls to trumpetin' an' cries; 'Alleluia! Lift up your 'eads ye everlasting gates that the King ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... the Rites contain these passages: "The lesson ended, a scholar, vested in a surplice, takes the ivory tablets from the altar or ambo, and ascends the pulpit;" and in another place a similar allusion occurs: "When the Deacon chants the Alleluia, the key bearer for the week hands the ivory tablets to him at the exit ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... the monk; 'Alleluia shall be sung in Ella's land'; and he passed on his way with a silent vow that one day he would find a means of teaching the ...
— Stories from English History • Hilda T. Skae
... work of His Spirit until He has fulfilled all His promises, until He hath put a period to sin and misery, infirmity and death, re-established universal holiness and happiness, and caused all the inhabitants of the earth to sing, 'Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.'" If Methodism be faithful to her mission, ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling
... orbem terrarum.... The Spirit of the Lord hath fulfilled all things, alleluia: and that which contains all things hath knowledge of ...
— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson |
