This hole represents the entrance to the underworld, and now the chief priest advances toward it, sprinkles a pinch of sacred meal over it, then vigorously stamps upon it, and marches on.
It is broken by the prayer of the chief priest, who sprinkles more sacred meal into the mixture.
After sweeping the floor, the godmother sprinkles a line of meal about two inches wide from the cradle to the door, and the mother does the same thing.
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Then she walks round the tent seven times, and sprinkles the mixture on it with a palm flower.
He sprinkles water from culms of Cynodon Dactylon over the united hands.
He also sprinklesthe members of the family, as they return after the bath.
Before thrashing, the same headman takes a few bundles of corn from the sheaf intended for their gods, and sprinkles toddy on them.
He sprinkles water over members of the family, and they are thereby freed from this pollution.
Her enangathi (relation by marriage) sweeps the hut and compound, and sprinkles water mixed with cow-dung on her body as she returns after the bath.
Closing his eyes, the Irula beats the drum, and shakes his head about, while his wife, who stands near him, sprinkles turmeric water over him.
For seven days, both morning and evening, he prostrates himself before it, and sprinkles the water of a tender cocoanut on it.
Death or birth pollution is removed by a member of the Mavadan class called Maruttan, who sprinkles cowdung mixed with water on the feet, and milk on the head of the person to be purified.
But, since fate opposes attempts so great, he sprinkles both her body and the place with odoriferous nectar, and having first uttered many a complaint he says, “Still shalt thou reach the skies.
Then follow a collect and certain psalms, and finally the priest sprinkles him with holy water, and blesses him.
In the Deothana there is always a vessel full of water and a stick, and when a man comes in from outside he goes to this and sprinkles a little water over his body to free himself from any impurity he may have contracted abroad.
The head of the family sprinkles water and throws the kusha grass into the river, lights the wicks placed in the lamps and burns a little food in them, calling on the names of his ancestors.
At the second meal, taken in her courtyard, the Sharmia sprinklessome blood on the ground and on the lintel of the door as an offering to the gods and in order that the house may be pure for the future.
The village sweeper breaks a cocoanut, kills a couple of fowls and sprinkles a little liquor near the pile.
But Machiavel sprinklesthese discourses with thoughts of a more general cast, and often applies a comprehensive knowledge of history, and a long experience of mankind.
Far the greater portion is illustrative; but Erasmus not unfrequently sprinkles his explanations of ancient phrase with moral or literary remarks of some poignancy.
He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth.
The chief ties a short cotton string to the stem of each, sprinkles them with votive meal, and breathes upon them his prayers for the welfare of the proposed house and its occupants.
After addressing the throng in a sermon, to which they pay little heed, the parish priest sprinkles the pyre with holy water, and taking a lighted torch from the hand of an assistant sets fire to the pile.
The horses go through this hole one after the other, opposite to one of the mouths of which the priest stands with a sprinkler in his hand, with which he sprinkles them.
At each halt the medium takes a little of the rice and blood from the winnower and sprinkles it on the ground for the spirits to eat.
It sprinkles every field and lane in the country with its little mimic stars.
He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts then hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the sea side sands The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Then they go round to every house in the village, where the house-holder or his wife sprinkles the Rain King with water, and gives the party food of various kinds.
Similarly, in Java the burglar takes earth from a grave and sprinkles it round the house which he intends to rob; this throws the inmates into a deep sleep.
When rain is wanted, the rajah fetches water from a spring below and sprinkles it on the stone.
And when he is about to take it off (the fire) and sprinkles it with butter, he changes it into marrow.
The lamb is then led up to the stones, and there killed by a man belonging to a kind of priestly order, who takes some of the blood and sprinkles it four times over the people.
Or he pours water and the entrails of a sheep or goat into a hollow in a stone and then sprinkles the water towards the sky.
A man goes in advance with a bunch of sacred grass in his hands, from which he sprinkles a mixture of milk and water.
There her husband sprinkles water on her body from the points of a wisp of the sacred Darbha grass and repeats holy verses.
In another form of the charm the Khandh priest takes the woman to the confluence of two streams, sprinkles water over her to purify her from the dangerous influence of the spirit and makes an offering to the god of births.
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Brahmin present; but some village elder (adhikari) sprinkles water over the couple from one of the water pots, and the ceremony is held to be complete.
The deori freely sprinkles the mother as well as the house and its contents with this holy water, after which she is fully at liberty to resume social intercourse with her neighbours.
One man sprinkles on water, and another sprinkles on barley straw from a wisp held under his left arm.
The master throws pulverised earth into a small vessel, sprinkles water over it, and mixes it; this he pours over the whole hearth, and sprinkles charcoal dust over it to the thickness of a digit.
He being about to expend his skill and labour on this matter, first throws charcoal into the crucible, and sprinkles over it an iron shovel-ful of crushed iron ore mixed with unslaked lime.
On the one morning he sprinkles a little ash into the lute, and when he has poured some water over it he brushes it over with a broom.
Then the same assistant throws a little powdered charcoal into the pit of the forehearth and sprinkles it with pulverised earth.
After the crucible has been made smooth, he sprinkles in dry charcoal dust, and again pounds it with the same pestles, at first with the narrow heads, and afterward with the wider ones.
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Afterward he again draws off the slags from the crucible, which the assistant does not quench by pouring water upon them, as the other slags are usually quenched, but he sprinkles over them a little water and allows them to cool.
The Grand Master then sprinkles the wine upon the Lodge, saying: In the name of the holy Saints John, I do solemnly dedicate this hall to Virtue.
The Grand Master then sprinkles the oil upon the Lodge, saying: In the name of the whole Fraternity, I do solemnly dedicate this hall to Universal Benevolence.
Eventually they leave off, and he sprinkles the ghi, and is dismissed with a few annas, pan-supari, and the remains of the ghi.
An old man presides, takes a few grains of rice and sprinkles on their heads, as do the others present, first the males and then the females.
Soon after a death occurs, a barber is summoned, who sprinkles water on the corpse, and touches it with a razor if it be of a male.
He generally sprinkles fine sand in small quantities, so that the noise made thereby may give him an idea of the situation.
The Jani, performing some incantation, sprinkles water on them.
On the fourteenth day after childbirth, the Thali-kurup sprinkles water over the woman, and the Mannathi gives her a newly-washed cloth to wear.
Beginning with the children, as these and the people pass through the passage so formed, the Jani sprinkles water on them all.
On the third day, a visit is paid to the place where cremation took place, and the son or some near relative of the deceased goes round the spot on which the corpse was burnt three times, and sprinkles rice thereon thrice.
The son sprinkles a little water on the ground, and the bier is placed upon the spot with the fire at the head.
A Bhondari woman sprinkles water from mango leaves over him, and he proceeds in a palanquin to the home of the bride.
On the third day he makes a heap of the ashes, on which he sprinkles milk.
The husband then covers up the grain with his knife, after which his wife sprinkles water over the whole, and then gives her husband some gruel.
Thus when the smith sprinkles water upon his burning charcoal, it is extinguished for a moment, and smoke takes the place of flame; but again, at the slightest blast of his bellows, the fire breaks out with redoubled brilliancy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprinkles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
