Like the gold which has passed through successive crucibles, devoid of all impurities, thou, O King of Ayodiah, shinest in greater splendour than even yon god of light now rising to our view on the orient hills.
A college in the State of Ohio has adopted for its motto the words 'Orient thyself.
The immeasurable genius of the elder civilizations of the Orient was there legibly written, and recalled the granite and brick debauches of Egypt and Assyria.
It was some time before I could orient myself optically.
This, however, is only in accord with the well-known doctrine of relativity, which predicates both space and time as necessary inventions of the human mind to orient itself to the conditions under which it finds itself.
They were of all sizes and shapes and tints, from a pear-shaped, brilliant, Orient pearl of great value, to the golden pipi of inconsiderable worth.
There recurred to me the mornings and evenings in the Orient when I had seen the Parsees, the fire-worshippers of India, offer their devotions, standing or kneeling on their rugs on the seashore.
What fine aerial Shape, In orient colours dight, Springs from the world unknown Upon my wondering sight?
Lastly there came from the Orient a habit of thought in distinct contradiction to Roman ideas whereby not the Genius of the living emperor but the very man himself was divine in life and in death.
The magicians of the Orient for a long time were held up as superior to any rivals outside their country.
As I have spoken above about the jugglers and tricksters of the Orient I may as well say that I witnessed the performances of the trickster who was in Harry French's Hindoo troupe.
It was supposed that the disease originated in the Orient and was brought to London from Holland.
In the Orient the harems are perfumed with intense extracts and flowers, in accordance with the strong belief in the aphrodisiac effect of odors.
Anastasius I had one black eye and the other blue, from whence he derived his name "Dicore," by which this Emperor of the Orient was generally known.
Even Saint Augustine says that he knew of a child born in the Orient who, from the belly up, was in all parts double.
The Sallows was an extension of shrubberies and plantations along the banks of the Froom, accessible from the lawn of Froom-Everard House only, except by wading through the river at the waterfall or elsewhere.
Well, Baptista, conduct yourself seemly, and all will be well.
Milo knew their character well enough, but he deemed himself to be uttering somewhat that should amuse rather than enrage, and was mortified rather than terrified, I believe, at the sudden application of the lash.
There were great steamers of the Orient line, of the Peninsular and Oriental (familiarly known as the "P.
On their return from the excursion to the sheep farm, our friends learned that a steamer of the Orient line had just arrived, and would leave at noon the next day for Australia.
Glorious, though fruitless expeditions to Italy and crusades to the Orient extended mightily the limited horizon of the Germans: Southern and Oriental beauty penetrated the monachism of the North.
The forests, however, might suffer total obliteration as they have in many sections of the Orient and Occident.
The sixt of August we discouered land in 66 degrees 40 minuts of latitude, altogether void from the pester of ice: we ankered in a very faire rode vnder a braue mount, the cliffes whereof were as orient as golde.
Not everything the dreamy Orient is ready to accept will meet with equal credence, or even with tolerance, in the sobered Occident.
The Orient contains many surprises, and it appealed to me as one of them to find a Mohammedan Parsee familiar with Norse mythology as a tradition of the East.
The Orient was ablaze with the glories of an early sunrise, which had been initiated by waves of gilded crimson; and Arabia Felix rose from a transcendental dream to bathe in dew as brilliant as the pearls of Halool and Katar.
Therefore, as grace Inweaves the coronet, so every brow Weareth its proper hue of orient light.
On the strength of this argument, the Son of Heaven made an earnest appeal to his fellow-sovereign to sink minor differences and rescue the Orient from the impending crisis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
