"sacred" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Robert says, "Tiresias, in one legend, sees two sacred snakes coupling and breaks them up with his staff.
- Her cult included the annual feeding of a sacred snake with barley cakes by virgin maidens.
- The museum has a plaster cast statue of Asklepios, with a sacred snake curling up on his stick.
- Within the foundations lived the sacred snake of the temple, which represented the spirit of Cecrops and whose well-being was thought essential for the safety of the city.
- Her sacred snakes had had their basket by this hearth, her spells their hiding-places.
- The priest took the honey-cake I had brought, and gave it to the sacred snake in his little pit.
- No one ever saw the sacred snake.
- That is so, my lord; the sacred snake is round his middle.
- I come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of Khem; Come to face the Babe and Lion, come to measure force with them!
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