Rites

Examples

• We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is a part of the monthly rites of Issus, he replied, in which black men wash the sins from their souls in the blood of men from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It had no rites and ceremonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rites and music, history and mathematics completed the Six Accomplishments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The suiters of Penelope are, by the same ancient poet, described as a set of lawless men, who were regardless of the sacred rites of hospitality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Yesterday the monthly rites of Issus were held, replied Yersted, and I saw her then sitting in her accustomed place at the foot of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Such a fighter as you, for example, would render fine sport in the monthly rites of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A connecting link is found in the stories, traditions, songs, and liturgies which accompany the doings and rites of a primitive social group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Near the sources of the Arveiron we performed the rites for, four only excepted, the last of the species. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Many of them are supposed to have been used in the performance of some of the startling religious rites at the altars of the Greek priests. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some hundred black devils have I accounted for during nearly a year of the rites of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If he lives through the contest he is held acquitted of the charge that forced the sentence of the rites, as it is called, upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I have seen him battle in the arena at the rites of Issus many times. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As closely as I could figure, there remained a bare thirty days ere Dejah Thoris would be ordered to the arena for the rites of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Typist: Vilma