This appears from the custom sometimes observed of dipping the cross in the Fountain of Baranton, to procure rain; for this is plainly a substitute for the older way of throwing the water on the stone.
Like other peoples the Greeks and Romans sought toprocure rain by magic, when prayers and processions(80) had proved ineffectual.
Battambang, a province of Siam, ceremony to procure rain in, i.
Palm-branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, in ceremonies to procure rain, i.
Fights, sanguinary, as a ceremony to procure rain, i.
He gathered that the ceremony takes place at the beginning of winter, and he thought that the processions "are perhaps intended to drive away the evil spirits at the season of tillage or perhaps also to procure rain.
M135 Games of ball in Morocco to procure rain or sunshine.
M134 The Tug of War in Morocco to procure rain or sunshine.
The prophets of Baal, who sought to procure rain by cutting themselves with knives till the blood gushed out, may have acted on the same principle.
The black garments and the black food have the same significance; no one will doubt that they refer to the rain-clouds when he remembers that a black victim is sacrificed to procure rain; 'it is black, for such is the nature of rain.
Sometimes, in order to procure rain, the Toradjas make an appeal to the pity of the dead.
The Swazies, we are told explicitly, try to procure rain by throwing water high into the air, expecting that the falling drops will stimulate the clouds in sympathy with them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procure rain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
