Some time ago I was summoned to a neophyte whose death, though certain, was still distant.
A betel leaf is wrapped round the male member of the neophyte and the loose end of the leaf is snipped off instead of the prepuce.
If all go well the meeting takes place, and the chief of the spirits sends to the neophyte a river-otter, in the tongue of which animal is supposed to be hid the whole power and secret of shamanism.
After thus deliberately rejecting all personal success and selfish aims, the neophyte makes a vow (praṇidhâna) to acquire enlightenment for the good of all beings and not to swerve from the rules of life and faith requisite for this end.
The initiatory ceremony, which resembled baptism, was performed with sugar and water stirred with a sword, and the neophyte vowed not to worship idols, to bow to none except a Sikh Guru, and never to turn his back on the enemy.
Everything in life is an outcome of the past," said Narvaez, "even a neophyte such as you are should be certain of that.
The young man being a neophytecould not explain much that Julian desired to know.
Among these few horsemen, the neophyte perceived one, across whose saddle-bow there sat what seemed a female, enveloped in thick mantles.
This unknown auxiliary stretched forth his hand, and doing to Amador the service rendered by Lazaro to the secretary, the neophyte instantly found himself in safety, and ascending the bank of the river.
The neophyte was surprised at this mark of homage in the enchanter, whom he had found, though neither rude nor presumptuous, not over-burthened with servility.
His helmet had fallen to the ground; and the sight of his gray hairs shaking over his scarred front, as he was tossed up and down, like one bound hand and foot on the back of a wild animal, inflamed the neophyte with both rage and pity.
Cortes, as he perceived the neophyte approaching him.
It is only the neophyte who rides after the mirage and thirsts for the Dead Sea apple.
The San Francisco record is very precise, since it allocates each neophyte to his rancheria, or at least to the local region of his origin.
One of the survivors was a neophyte named Othon, whose story follows.
In both schools the preliminary training was the same; that is to say, the first thing taught to the neophyte was self-control.
The cave itself signified the lower world, into which during the ordeals of initiation the neophyte was supposed to enter while out of the physical body, that the soul might be purged by many trials.
The neophyte has evidently forgotten the rule about speaking aloud," remarked Baker.
I didn't think of it until I was half through with Rattleton, who was theneophyte in my party.
If he was spoken to by one of his companions, not a member of the order, the neophyte was not to answer.
They walked beside him thus for some distance until at length the neophyte knew that he was on a bridge; he remembered the place then, or thought he did.
Of course I meant to tell you about it before you took the neophyte to the street, but Prof.
From that moment until the end of the initiation the neophyte was forbidden to laugh, or to speak aloud unless addressed by a "Pig" in good standing or a member of the faculty.
Frank heard his steps wavering upon the planks, and then, with a little quivering cry, the frightened neophyte jumped over.
It is becoming that a neophyte should enter there in a modest attitude, therefore you will go on your hands and knees until commanded to rise.
Who is the next neophyte who wishes to become acquainted with the mysteries of Pi Gamma?
Usually, too, there was an excursion upon the street, but in these instances the neophyte was not blindfolded.
Half a dozen of the students get into this boat; some of them receive the leaping neophyte in their arms and clap their hands over his mouth so that he shall not cry out.
It then flashed upon Frank that it must be a rule of this order that no neophyte should refer to it as the "Pig," and unhappily in his essay he had done so a dozen times or more.
The archbishop of Moldivia glided on in stately dignity; and the stranger regarded the haughty prelate with as little veneration as the neophyte who waved a perfumed censer in his rear.
If there be a feeling more horrible than another, it is the return of reason to a drunken neophyte when he wakens after his first debauch.
He had seen the world extensively, and therefore was the better qualified to introduce a neophyte like me upon the stage of life.
This seasonable interposition silenced the accuser; but it was long before the neophyte could venture to appear at the club.
It is to be famous at once if successful; whilst, if unsuccessful, the failure is passed over as the caprice of the host in whose house the neophyte is tried.
Gorworth had warned his neophyte that this would be the case, but the traditional enthusiasm of the neophyte had triumphed over discretion.
Piraeus, and the neophyte and myself soon found ourselves under the shelter of Mr. Evangelides' roof, where his Greek wife made us cordially welcome.
While these simple undertakings are planned and executed, the veteran and elder neophyte engage a one-horse vehicle, and madly fly to visit an insane asylum.
The elder neophyte not having been with us before in Venice, the convent was new ground to her.
We remember the debtors' prisons which still abound in England, and endeavor to view the younger neophyte in the sober livery of Little Dorrit.
The neophyte and the Austrian brother felt no pang, but the neophyte's mother was dizzy and uncomfortable.
The neophyte and I sat hand in hand, looking ruefully on, and wondering how soon we should break out.
He and his suite smoked vigorously, and stared somewhat, as, with the neophyte on one side and the little Austrian lady on the other, I walked up and down the deck.
Close to the eye of the neophyte he thrusts it, through inattention.
One Neophyte would not be able to protect himself.
Before the cannon ball fell, neophyte and affinity had been concerting plans for removing the tub from a benighted neighbourhood to some more congenial sphere.
Whatever might happen by-and-by, the neophyte and his affinity must be brought close together again for a while, and to that end Pharamond loyally exerted all his influence.
In the solitude of the country," she had said, "the neophyte would miss her.
In the second case, two of the weights attached to the arms refused to yield, and the hapless neophyte crept as best he could to the steep bluff overhanging the river, where he drove a stake into the ground.
Worn and wasted by four days of abstinence from food, drink, and sleep, the first neophyte enters the lodge, when called, and takes his stand in front of two of the executioners.
Painful as the operation must be, the neophyte bears it unflinchingly; not a sigh escapes him; his countenance remains as calm and unruffled as if he were wrapped in a pleasant dream.
In one case the skewer had chanced to pass under a sinew, and the neophytewas dragged round and round the ring in vain.
These, too, faded away in the fourth stage, along with memory, and all sense of pain; and before the neophyte opened the doors of Nirvana.
In the following autumn, if of full age and approved by the hierophant, the neophyte could be initiated into the Greater Mysteries, into the second degree, that of Mysta.
Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries only permitted the neophyte to go as far as the outer vestibule of the temple.
Then they were carried away to be revived, but for three days and three nights not a single neophyte could touch food, water, or any other kind of drink.
The object was to tear the peg from the body, breaking by violence through the skin and flesh that held it, and this proved that the neophyte by his endurance of excessive pain was fit to become a great warrior.
The showy Fitzgibbon was master of the situation, for Curran was not a lady's man, and the neophyte in such noble company was sheepish.
Blinds were drawn for a few minutes that no prying gaze might penetrate the Holy of Holies; then all sat down, with the neophyte standing in their midst, while their president read through the constitution.
The whistle which the neophyte here gave seemed to give great dissatisfaction to all of the trappers present.
The disappointment which prevailed in this crowd of neophyte hunters, on discovering this mistake, can be better imagined than described.
They were all quite amiable, obviously willing to be helpful, and they impressed the observant neophyte with that quiet and solid esprit de corps which is based upon respect for work well performed in a common cause.
Supplied with letters to the officials of the International Cloth Company, and a liberal sum for expenses, the neophyte went to Sippiac.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neophyte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
