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  • When his ablutions were complete, Eragon unhooked the membrane from the wall and mounted Saphira, cradling Zar'roc in the crook of his arm.†  (source)
  • Marie literally crawled out of bed, headed for the bathroom, and four minutes later, ablutions completed, her auburn hair brushed and, wearing a bathrobe, walked out through the shuttered door to the patio overlooking the pool.†  (source)
  • And yet, she heard those chords in her sleep, found herself humming them during her ablutions.†  (source)
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  • Then he drags the old man out to the other part of the car to take care of the evening's ablutions.†  (source)
    ablutions = ritual washings
  • If you need anything, ask your cousins," he said, taking a kettle from the stoop and beginning to perform ablution.†  (source)
    ablution = ritual washing
  • Home for nineteen hours and you've already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah!†  (source)
    ablutionary = relating to ritual washing
  • From the first afternoon they bathed together, naked, the two of them making their reciprocal ablutions with water from the cistern.†  (source)
    ablutions = ritual washings
  • My momma had to iron forty pounds of clothes to make four dollars, so we were probably the last family on Roy Webb Road to experience the joy of twentieth-century ablution.†  (source)
    ablution = ritual washing
  • A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of Jake's cowlick.†  (source)
    ablutions = ritual washings
  • The way of worship is primarily that of preserving and cultivating purity of heart: 'What is ablution?†  (source)
    ablution = ritual washing
  • Sighing, the tailor knelt and began his ablutions again with his left foot.†  (source)
    ablutions = ritual washings
  • Still startled, the woman moved out, keeping the ablution-tank between them.†  (source)
    ablution = ritual washing
  • Once the political ablutions were over, a gentle buzz wafted through the hallway as the students settled into their quieter routine of rote learning.†  (source)
    ablutions = ritual washings
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