"This is one of the lustral cars," he said, in a faint voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
Slaves! slaves! bring forward the basket and the lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Not so; but I shall lave around thy head with the lustral stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
The ancients had their lustral water for sprinkling and purifying the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Calchas will to his cost consecrate the sacrificial cakes and lustral waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Summer, the lustral water of morning over lithe limbs; O joy, dew of the heart …. From Wordnik.com. [Marguerite Yourcenar – Madame Bibliotheque] Reference
Calchas, the seer, shall rue beginning the sacrifice with his barley-meal and lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [Iphigenia at Aulis] Reference
It consisted in washing the hands, and sometimes the whole body, in lustral or consecrated water. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
Come, seize the basket and take the lustral water and hurry to circle round the altar to the right. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Inside are four red chairs with four lustral basins before them, filled with ink, swirling and black. From Wordnik.com. [Look, Ma, I'm a Technopeasant!] Reference
It is for us, the few still faithful, to keep the lustral fires pure from defilement by the unbelievers. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
TRYGAEUS Come, seize the basket and take the lustral water and hurry to circle round the altar to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
In the first two centuries they entertained a horror for temples, altars, tapers, incense, and lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
I am sure, and the proof of it is that we have flooded them with lustral water and they have not budged an inch. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
You sprinkle altars from the same lustral-bowl, like relatives, at Olympia, Pylae, Delphi and many other places. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
But the son of Peleus ran around the altar of the Goddess, taking the canister and lustral waters at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Croesus sent also four silver casks, which are in the Corinthian treasury; and two lustral vases, a golden and a silver one. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Rescue excavations next to Daskaloyanni Street conducted by Vlazaki in 1989 revealed a lustral basin for ritual purification. From Wordnik.com. [Cretan Minoan Finds] Reference
Ilium's town and the Phrygians; give me wreaths to cast about me; bring them hither; here are my tresses to crown; bring lustral water too. From Wordnik.com. [Iphigenia at Aulis] Reference
Though treason stained and spilt her lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [Two Nations] Reference
And from the dripping bay dash round the lustral dew. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
This well in which I have washed myself is lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
The clean lustral water and the full incense-box were carried after them. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
Bathing and oblation are requisite, and all are of a lustral and expiatory nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
Did I need such a crowd to help me by holding the lustral victims during the lengthy rite?. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
He lifted his head, shaking the water from his eyes, and the very volume of the lustral flood contented him. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Amity] Reference
Temple of Eleusis, all were required to wash their hands in a vase of lustral water placed near the entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
The boy through whose hand the water flows is from the Lacedemonians, but neither of the vessels for lustral water. From Wordnik.com. [The history of Herodotus — Volume 1] Reference
The first days of the ceremonial were passed in sorrow and anxious silence, in fasting and expiatory or lustral offices. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
This is the source, then, whence the lustral water is drawn with which the poets have purified the cruellest of tragedies. From Wordnik.com. [The Buried Temple] Reference
Then came a fresh trial of two years, during which they shared in the lustral rites, but not in the meals, of the initiated. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Sacred baths and preparatory baptisms were used, lustrations, immersions, lustral sprinklings, and purifications of every kind. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
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