A wooden bowl, at one end of the tomb, was probably intended to receive alms for the support of the devotee who claims the place, and who practises the curing of diseases by charms among the wild Arabs.
Thus through the channel of the stone or the stick, which has been in bodily contact with the living saint, his blessed influence flows to the devotee who has wielded the stick or hurled the stone.
Let the devotee of these other classes of sport try bear hunting, and when he has bagged his first grizzly, then let him talk!
The market fisherman of whom I spoke was a faithful devotee to the fly, and never would use any other lure.
But considering you, as I do, a devotee to science, I had thought it possible that you might feel a desire to engage in her cause to the South, by occupying some eminent station in the expedition.
I will now give you a description, so far as my feeble abilities will admit, of the things which I think worthy the attention of a devotee of science.
But if it be the Divine Will to put an end to a certain work of His, using thee as instrument, thou as a devotee must destroy it, and none should accuse thee of lack of respect for His work.
In order that the devotee may gradually develop strength, and be able to see the Beloved without a veil.
The devotee mostly prays with the fire of Love without observing external forms (e.
A Devoteealone can appreciate the value of Devotion.
God raises the monotheist out of the dualist, the faithful out of the faithless, and the devotee out of the sinner.
Utter not secrets before the mob if thou art a true devotee Hast thou not seen that =Mansûr=, intoxicated with devotion, uttered a secret and was put to death?
The people are so predisposed to color the language of the political devotee that they were quite satisfied with the answer given by the propagandist Rogatchef to the peasants who asked what he sought among them.
It began to be whispered that Gogol had become a devotee of mysticism; and it is quite true that on his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he lived miserably, giving all he had to the poor.
Gombauld seems to have been a devotee of both Queens: and commentators will have it that this whole book is courtship as well as courtiership in disguise.
It was not to be a tour of Europe, as Longfellow and Willis and Taylor had made it, the pilgrimage of a devotee to holy shrines; it was to be a great picnic with sixty-seven in the picnic party.
Aurelius, an Isiac devotee like Commodus, or devoted to the Syrian worships like the Oriental princes of the third century.
Domitian carried on the restoration on even a more splendid scale; he was a devotee of Minerva, and a rigorous vindicator of old ascetic religious law.
They equally recognised the immense force of that spiritual movement which was trying every avenue of accredited religious system or novel superstition, that might perchance lead the devotee to some glimpse of the divine world.
Many a pious devotee of Mithra and Hecate would have recoiled, as much as we do, from the last results of his superstition.
The Isiac devotee was an enthusiastic believer in dreams sent by his favourite deities.
The people then haul down the other end of the bamboo: by which the devotee is immediately lifted up thirty feet or more from the ground, and they run round as fast as their legs can carry them.
While the prayer-wheel is thus turned round with one hand, the devoteetakes the rosary in the other, and at the same time repeats penitential psalms.
Thus the devotee is thrown out the whole length of the rope, where, as he swings, he plays a thousand antic tricks; being painted and dressed in a very particular manner, on purpose to make him look more ridiculous.
At the age of twenty-four his mind took a different turn; for, all at once, he became as great a devotee as any age has ever produced, and gave himself up entirely to prayer and mortification.
Clearly Habib regarded that devotee no more than if he had been a mile removed instead of being actually against us.
A devotee was prostrated in the little alcove, bowing and praying in the usual rhythmic way.
For the soul, this world is the plane of existence; union with omnipresent Deity is the climax of existence that the Hindu devotee seeks to attain; yet not in a Hereafter, but as he sits on the ground no longer conscious of his self.
This present life also has become a reality; a devotee renouncing the world may deny its reality; but how in this practical modern world can a man retain the doctrine of Maya or Delusion.
It was not "prohibition" that prompted so severe a punishment, but the recognition of the purpose for which a devotee would enter such a house of ill repute.
The devotee may feel that he is buying himself free, or escaping worse sufferings hereafter, by doing penance now.
Accordingly religion has seldom been so radically taken in our Western world that the devotee could not mix it with some worldly temper.
How can the devoteeshow his loyalty better than by sensitiveness in this regard?
The sinceredevotee proposes impossible attainments, of which human nature is not capable; and as, in spite of all his endeavors, he is unable to succeed in their acquisition, he is always discontented with himself.
To be a devotee has always been synonymous to having an imbecile confidence in priests.
The whole life of a devotee is spent in fulfilling, with scrupulous exactitude, duties indifferent to God, unnecessary to himself, and useless to others.
The life of a good Christian or of a devotee is crowded with a host of useless practices, which would be at least pardonable if they procured any good for society.
Or what better is the devotee who flies from the world and deprives himself even of innocent pleasures, in the fear that God might damn him for participation in them?
What horror does it not fill the Christian devotee with if you tell him that his priest is unnecessary!
In fine, if the devotee is very zealous, he cannot prevent himself from avoiding or detesting beings, who, according to his gloomy notions of religion, are perpetually occupied in irritating God.
But even if Paul before his conversion was a devotee of the apocalyptic Messiah, the genesis of the Pauline Christology has not yet been explained.
I had need of all my cerebral hygiene during that day's paddle: the old devotee stuck in my throat sorely.
Nevertheless, the old man kept silence; perhaps in his character of devotee he was afraid of being led into temptation, or of giving occasion to scandal, and the other guests were silent like him, and ate to keep each other in countenance.
Querini asked how she had known him, and she replied that she had often seen him at Divine service, whereat the devotee seemed greatly flattered.
He told me how he had been supping with the old devotee Querini, who had had his hand kissed by a young and fair Venetian.
In former years the swordsman used to join the procession of the San Lorenzo parish as a devotee of Our Lord Jesus of the Great Power, dressed in a black tunic with a tall hood and a mask that left only his eyes visible.
Moreover, he was a devotee of the Lord of the Great Power.
He did it as a devotee and wished his act to remain a secret.
They belonged to a girl of the ward who had gone to Madrid two years before, and being a devotee of the Macarena, returned to see the feast with an old gentleman.
Graves, not being so ardent a devotee of science, and finding no such necessity for assuming a virtue he did not possess, had seldom visited the house in question.
Graves fell speedily under their domination, and became almost a devotee in some of the more magnificent of the historic cathedrals of the peninsula.
A devotee caused two arrows to be passed through the muscles of his breast, one on each side near the mammae.
