He was carried next through the Gate of the Sons of the Old Woman; thence to the space in front of the well Zem-Zem; mindful of the prayers and prostrations required at each place, and of the dumb servants who went with him.
The prostrations with which he acknowledged the favors were marvels to behold.
I found no opportunity of praying the usual two prostrations over the grave of Ishmael.
The interior of the temple is not more than eight feet square, a mere cell in which the deities are housed; the worshippers mostly perform their prostrations on the plinth outside.
Their prostrations toward Mecca and their matutinal prayers to Allah seem to gain something of sincerity from the accompanying worship of the birds and the sympathetic essence of the awakening day.
He had, therefore, time to make his prostrations before a huge animal, then unknown to the western world, but now universally distinguished as the elephant.
The tented Arabs are no doubt very bad Mohammedans, but the assumption which Kinglake seems to make that prostrations are essential to a Moslem religious ceremony is not correct.
It may be paralleled by the legendary prostrations of Alexander the Great before the high priest Jaddua (Jos.
The several prostrations do not require separate repetitions of the verse.
The young Christian went through the customary prostrations respectfully, and then said, "I do not shikko you as God, but because I do not know of any other way to show my respect.
These prostrations are also gone through at confessional before the priest,--one of the "precious things" before mentioned.
But he afterwards learns when he comes to understand the Burman better,--that these prostrations before superiors are not intended as acts of real worship.
After going through his prayers and prostrations the worshipper goes to the bell and strikes it with the end of a heavy piece of wood, kept there for the purpose.
Their religious sense is deep, but theirs is a religion which blunts and stupefies the intellectual faculties, and makes man fit only to perform a score of prostrations each day.
The adoration and prostrations of the Turk afford an imposing sight even to the Christian.
We were greatly surprised to find among the crowd of pilgrims several Chinese who, chaplet in hand, were executing all the prostrations just like the rest.
I have not the smallest doubt that such an excessive familiarity appears to them as disgusting as their zombay[308] and their other prostrations seem to us incongruous.
Is a sovereign rewarded for all his anxieties by the pleasures which absolute power seems to afford and by the prostrations of his courtiers?
The prostrations being made and the offerings placed on the altar, the earthen cow is broken in pieces and distributed among the people.
This present was brought, after his departure from the hall, by the old eunuch, who took care to tell us that before we received it we must make nineprostrations according to the Chinese custom.
He said that all the officers of government, in every part of the empire, made their prostrations to the name of the Emperor inscribed on yellow silk on that day.
The prayers consist of prescribed ejaculations, petitions, and the recital of parts of the Koran, always including the first sura, accompanied by prostrations of the body.
The young General bowed to the knight in answer to his prostrations and said: "Are you the knight Sano Genzaemon Tsuneyo?
With many humble prostrations she thanked her host for his hospitality, and apologized for all the trouble she had given him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prostrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
