In return, these souls which had become gods loved and protected their posterity.
Every Roman family had in its house a sanctuary where were to be found the Lares, the souls of the ancestors, and the altar of the hearth.
But these souls pass from one body into another; this is the transmigration of souls.
These funeral ceremonies were perpetuated for an indefinite period; a family could not abandon the souls of its ancestors, but continued to maintain their tomb and the funeral feasts.
He it is who guides the souls of the dead, the messenger of the gods, the deity presiding over the breeding of cattle.
Other demons armed with sword or club with serpents in their hands receive the souls of the dead; the principal of these under the name Charun (the Charon of the Greeks), an old man of hideous form, bears a heavy mallet to strike his victims.
It was just this word of sympathy of which despairing souls were in need.
The souls of the dead (the Manes) issue from the lower world three days in the year, wandering about the earth, terrifying the living and doing them evil.
But souls do not remain forever in heaven or in the hells; they part from these to begin a new life in another body.
And I beheld the hours As maidens, and the days as labouring men, And the soft nights again As wearied women to their own souls wed, And ages as the dead.
Vernoon, we have lived and loved before, who were twin souls from the first.
The rhythm of his style, his fancy, his imagery, all bid him bide with those whose souls go singing by a golden way.
Let her not be condemned then, among those whose souls are tainted and distorted by the vanities and hypocrisies of so-called civilised society!
The idea that theologians used to have long ago about souls passing from earth to heaven in a moment might well be believed by me, knowing as I do how my soul was transformed by that letter.
You must go into the depths of your own soulsthrough Him.
It was to cease, and they who loved Him would not miss it when it did; but the withdrawal which hid Him from sense and sense-bound souls would reveal Him more clearly to His friends.
He looks not merely on the great mass of idolaters, but He sees the single souls who shall hear.
That is what the world may be to you, if you will put it second, and seek first that your souls shall be fed on Jesus Christ.
It is such souls as these whom our Lord beholds in the wasteful wilderness.
But this true and better Guide of our souls enters in and dwells in us, in all the fulness of His triple gift of life, and light, and love.
There are many ways by which souls are brought to their Saviour.
I do not believe that there are any people concerning whom it is true that it is impossible for the grace of God to find some chink and cranny in their souls through which it can enter and change them.
Do you mark how God hath followed you with plagues; and may not conscience tell you, that it is for your inhumanity to the souls and bodies of men?
The loss of their souls will be required at our hands, to whom God hath given so blessed an opportunity of being instrumental to their salvation.
There were utilitarian souls who were disquieted about the crops, and anxiously examined growing ears of corn, expecting to find the comet's influence tucked away in the husks.
I have a strange feeling of responsibility, as if I had my ancestors' SOULS in my charge, and might miscarry with them.
When shall these questions of our yearning souls Be answered by the bright Eternal Word?
But he who knows nothing of all this, who shall so present the atonement as to bind and affiance human souls indissolubly to their Redeemer, does all that could be done by the highest and most perfect knowledge.
There is no other descent to hell than the descents of Geology, and this traveller, every time he returns from it, declares that there are no damned souls in the centre of the earth.
He is praying to himself, no doubt, for the souls of those whom he has sent to the grave with his extortion.
So the kindred souls of this guileless pair, An eating house speedily found, And before them a jar on the table sat, Full of horseradish, freshly ground.
Quite a number of his brethren arose and said they were glad they had been present on this occasion, that they were well pleased with the sound sermon they had just heard, and felt their souls greatly blessed.
Not a challenge has the warder For these souls so sinless white; Round each brow the Saviour's blessing Circles like a crown of light.
A shriek, a shock, and fifty souls were in eternity; and all because an engineer had been behind time.
Can you face the just Judge and the souls you have wrecked?
It received those thousands of souls into its maw, and made no sign; awaiting some visitation worthy of its bulk.
Go with us when oursouls go free, And, in the clear, white light to be, Add unto Heaven's beatitude The old delight of seeking good!
So from the trodden ways of earth, Seem some sweet souls who veil their worth, And offer to the careless glance The clouding gray of circumstance.
Communes of eight or ten thousand souls might be cited which have arranged matters so well amongst themselves in this respect that not a house is to be found worth more than fifty sous.
The millions of generous, repentant, or devout souls who have made a gift of it, or have managed it, did so with a certain intention.
The order had gone out some time before that all stray dogs were to be shot, and many poor little four-footed souls were sent into whatever happy land is reserved for the race which has been the earliest and best friend of man.
It was the first Easter spent away from home; it was the last Easter that most of those gallant young souls spent on earth.
Let us not lose the exalted love which came From comradeship with danger and the joy Of strong souls kindled into living flame By one supreme desire, one high employ.
Such cheery soulsthey were, going forth in their stifling helmets to the unknown dangers which awaited them.
Some pious souls proposed that I should have a service that evening in the field where the sports were to be held.
This may be achieved through many aspects of education, but especially through contact with noble souls in literature and history.
Every mother should have time to talk with her children--to acquaint herself with their souls as well as their bodies--to do something besides wash their faces and clothes.
They feel that they have souls as well as bodies to care for, and they don't want to forget it.
He wrought no wrong toward any; satisfied With love and labour, whence our souls are fed With largesse yet of living wine and bread.
Men, born of the landsmen and seamen Who served her with souls and with swords, She bids you be brothers, and free men, And lordless, and fearless of lords.
Their voices and the voice of the harp enter the souls of men and wake dear memories and cause them to forget many a mourning and many a sin.
Oh friend, she said, fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our soulsgo free at last.
Souls passing over to the happy fields of Elysium first drank from this river, whose waters caused them to forget their sorrows.
We will hold it at the Indian reservation of Four Mountains, thus quickening our own souls and giving a good object-lesson of the great History to the Indians.
The Cure had the bravery of simple souls with a duty to perform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "souls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
