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Example sentences for "cooked food"

  • At the grave, cooked food is offered, and eaten by the Satani and members of the family of the deceased.

  • Daily, during this period, cooked food is strewed on the way leading to the burning-ground.

  • The spirits of deceased ancestors are appeased once a year by the offering of cooked food on the new-moon day in the month of Karkatakam (July-August).

  • At marriages and feasts, for the same reason, cooked food is never offered to the guests, but raw grain is distributed, which each cooks in a separate and private place.

  • These people are paid with a daily supply of paddy or cooked food, and a yearly present of clothing and blankets (kamblis).

  • On that day, cooked food is offered to the deceased, and all cry "muriyo, muriyo.

  • When such children are five, seven, or nine years old, they are taken on an auspicious day to a jammi tree and shaved, after the tree has been worshipped with offerings of cooked food, etc.

  • Clearly the Brahmans could not accept the offerings of cooked food made at Siva's shrine; though the larger temples of this deity have Brahman priests.

  • They have the privilege of taking the Naivedya or offerings of cooked food made to the god Mahadeo, which Brahmans will not accept.

  • They worship their ancestors at Diwali, making offerings of cooked food, kusha grass and lamps made of dough at the river-side.

  • We had one at New Year's, and even those who live on cooked food pronounced it 'as good as they ever tasted.

  • Well, both my husband and myself think it possible there may be more 'ailments' from the use of cooked food, but there is more enjoyment too, and we shall have to take the bitter and the sweet together.

  • Such portions of whole grain as may be swallowed without mastication, will pass on and out without danger of the putrefactive changes which result from an excess, or deficient mastication of cooked food.

  • Cooked food is placed on the bier and deposited on the ground half-way to the cemetery.

  • To produce the greatest quantity of cooked food in a palatable form, at the minimum of cost, and with the maximum of nutrition, might save the country half a million of money, and many thousands of lives besides.

  • Soyer's visit to Ireland, a Dublin chemist read, before the Royal Dublin Society, a paper upon the nutritive and pecuniary value of various kinds of cooked food.

  • On the month for annual worship all the people met in the place of public gatherings with heaps of cooked food.

  • The Samoans say that there was a time when their ancestors ate everything raw, and that they owe the luxury of cooked food to one Ti'iti'i, the son of a person called Talanga.

  • After the completion of the drawing, the officiating priest puts the holy mark of Vishnu on the foreheads of those who bring the vessels of cooked food.

  • On the following morning, cooked food is offered to the images, which are then burnt.

  • The offering to the spirit of the deceased is not in the form of cooked food, but of presents to Brahmans.

  • When snow covers the ground, the animals must be supplied with turnips, or cooked food of some kind.

  • Some feeders prefer using dry fodder, or cooked food of some kind, and not raw roots.

  • A chief reason for the prejudice against cooked food is that it gives trouble, and is a "bother" to prepare.

  • I am most strongly in favour of cooked food, and opposed to the giving of raw oats in any shape or form.

  • Overwork or unnecessary exposure to rain, insufficient clothing, improper or badly-cooked food, and night rambles, are all fruitful causes of disease.

  • The people of Cincinnati were very prompt to send contributions of cooked food to the Fifth Street Market-House, which was made a temporary restaurant for the defenders of the city.


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