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  • When the energy in the ring was almost depleted, he whispered, "Ganga raehta."†   (source)
  • Then she spoke to her horse, saying, "Ganga."†   (source)
  • "Ganga," she murmured, and motioned with a finger.†   (source)
  • "I'll offer a prayer for your family at the Ganges."†   (source)
  • Somehow he mustered the nerve to say, "Ganga!†   (source)
  • A Ganges of dhal soup.†   (source)
  • Though his ashes have been scattered into the Ganges, it is here, in this house and in this town, that he will continue to dwell in her mind.†   (source)
  • Praying on the banks of the Ganga.†   (source)
  • Then the king said, "Ganga aptr," and Arya, Elva, and Saphira slid backward, leaving a wide space between them and the dais.†   (source)
  • -Sing O white-browed Fate/Of ill-marked Berundal/Born under oaken leaves/To mortal woman …. ganga aptr-to go backward ganga fram-to go forward Gath sem oro un lam iet.†   (source)
  • With a flick of his wrist and the word "Ganga," he redirected them, sending the darts boring toward the no-man's-land, where they could bury themselves in the barren soil without causing harm.†   (source)
  • In a lower voice, he said, "Ganga," and the pressure from the Eldunari assailing Eragon's mind vanished, leaving him free to think as he would.†   (source)
  • So the two of them melded their minds and, with Glaedr supplying the needed energy, Eragon shouted, "Ganga fram!"†   (source)
  • Ganga!†   (source)
  • Afterward, Nari told Eragon and Orik the words they could use to direct the horses: "Ganga framto go forward,blothr to stop,hlaupa if needs you must run, andganga aptr to go back.†   (source)
  • "Ganga!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • Ganga!†   (source)
  • He was washed in the great river of night, in the Ganges tides of redemption.†   (source)
  • Swallowing it, she returned again to the Ganges, where she disappeared.†   (source)
  • One quiet afternoon Ramakrishna beheld a beautiful woman ascend from the Ganges and approach the grove in which he was meditating.†   (source)
  • The Ganges is there with its demons and lords; but you have a right also, and merely, to wash your feet and do your personal laundry in it.†   (source)
  • The ambition of something special and outstanding I have always had is only a boast that distorts this knowledge from its origin, which is the oldest knowledge, older than the Euphrates, older than the Ganges.†   (source)
  • In the end all life, human and animal, and all the vegetable seeds, will be forced to seek shelter in the Ganges, in miserable caves, and in the sea.†   (source)
  • A certain Hindu ascetic who lay down to rest beside the holy Ganges placed his feet up on a iva-symbol (a "lirigam-yoni," a combined phallus and vulva, symbolizing the union of the God with his Spouse).†   (source)
  • A little image of the goddess Ganges is hidden in his locks; for it is he who receives on his head the impact of the descent of the divine Ganges from heaven, letting the life— and salvation-bestowing waters then flow gently to the earth for the physical and spiritual refreshment of mankind.†   (source)
  • Did you succeed in catching the moon in the Ganges?†   (source)
  • Pulling up the mare, he said, "There's your Ganges.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the plain of the Ganges encroaches on them with something of the sea's action.†   (source)
  • The island of Ganga Lagor lies where the sacred waters of the Ganges disappear in the Indian Ocean.†   (source)
  • The sky-born, high-tide Ganges turned to wind!†   (source)
  • The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.†   (source)
  • I followed the Ganges to its source, far up in the Himalayas.†   (source)
  • The railway, on leaving Benares, passed for a while along the valley of the Ganges.†   (source)
  • The island of Ganga Lagor lies where the sacred waters of the Ganges disappear in the Indian Ocean.†   (source)
  • Then a damp gust Bringing rain Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves Waited for rain, while the black clouds Gathered far distant, over Himavant.†   (source)
  • Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.†   (source)
  • Naturally, I continued to hunt — grizzlies in your Rockies, crocodiles in the Ganges, rhinoceroses in East Africa.†   (source)
  • The crease continued as a nullah across the plain, the water draining off this way towards the Ganges.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XII The Ganges, though flowing from the foot of Vishnu and through Siva's hair, is not an ancient stream.†   (source)
  • From his mother's description he had thought the doctor might be young Muggins from over the Ganges, and had brought out all the cornradely emotions.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was a cow that had been killed—or a crocodile with the tusks of a boar had crawled out of the Ganges.†   (source)
  • There are no bathing-steps on the river front, as the Ganges happens not to be holy here; indeed there is no river front, and bazaars shut out the wide and shifting panorama of the stream.†   (source)
  • So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil.†   (source)
  • As she left Chandrapore the moon, full again, shone over the Ganges and touched the shrinking channels into threads of silver, then veered and looked into her window.†   (source)
  • As soon as she landed in India it seemed to her good, and when she saw the water flowing through the mosque-tank, or the Ganges, or the moon, caught in the shawl of night with all the other stars, it seemed a beautiful goal and an easy one.†   (source)
  • Even the seller of Ganges-water he did not see, and Kim expected that he would at least buy a bottle of that precious stuff.†   (source)
  • The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth.†   (source)
  • Carried by the Ganges to the high seas, these were deceased Indian villagers who hadn't been fully devoured by vultures, the only morticians in these parts.†   (source)
  • "And I shall see it again," he said aloud, "in dreams when I sleep by the Ganges: and again in a more remote hour — when another slumber overcomes me — on the shore of a darker stream!"†   (source)
  • And there is something in this room which reminds me forcibly of the chamber of the Marquise de Ganges [*] or Desdemona.†   (source)
  • I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug.†   (source)
  • * Elisabeth de Rossan, Marquise de Ganges, was one of the famous women of the court of Louis XIV. where she was known as "La Belle Provencale."†   (source)
  • "Can you imagine," said Monte Cristo, "some Othello or Abbe de Ganges, one stormy, dark night, descending these stairs step by step, carrying a load, which he wishes to hide from the sight of man, if not from God?"†   (source)
  • Kiouni, resuming his rapid gait, soon descended the lower spurs of the Vindhias, and towards noon they passed by the village of Kallenger, on the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges.†   (source)
  • Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old log canoe, and the dark surrounding woods, are gone, and the villagers, who scarcely know where it lies, instead of going to the pond to bathe or drink, are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred as the Ganges at least, to the village in a pipe, to wash their dishes with!†   (source)
  • She was the widow of the Marquise de Castellane when she married de Ganges, and having the misfortune to excite the enmity of her new brothers-in-law, was forced by them to take poison; and they finished her off with pistol and dagger.†   (source)
  • There, in the centre of the earth, where the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmapootra rise to run their different courses; where mankind took up their first abode, and separated to replete the world, leaving Balk, the mother of cities, to attest the great fact; where Nature, gone back to its primeval condition, and secure in its immensities, invites the sage and the exile, with promise of safety to the one and solitude to the other—there I went to abide alone with God, praying, fasting, waiting…†   (source)
  • What would these divinities think of India, anglicised as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders?†   (source)
  • Chapter XIV IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING IT The rash exploit had been accomplished; and for an hour Passepartout laughed gaily at his success.†   (source)
  • When we get to Alexandria, I will take you to the corner of the street where you can hear it from the daughter of the Ganga, who taught it to me.†   (source)
  • Passepartout started off forthwith, and found himself in the streets of Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • …could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron…†   (source)
  • …Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.†   (source)
  • 6 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India, I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.†   (source)
  • Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward, The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands, The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents, (I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,) The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far…†   (source)
  • Silent they move, majestically slow, Like ebbing Nile, or Ganges in his flow.†   (source)
  • We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.†   (source)
  • As when a vultur on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light: So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone, bent on his prey; Alone, for other creature…†   (source)
  • At the middle point of this hemisphere stood Jerusalem, equidistant from the Pillars of Hercules on the West, and the Ganges on the East.†   (source)
  • …in rising mist; then sought Where to lie hid; sea he had searched, and land, From Eden over Pontus and the pool Maeotis, up beyond the river Ob; Downward as far antarctick; and in length, West from Orontes to the ocean barred At Darien; thence to the land where flows Ganges and Indus: Thus the orb he roamed With narrow search; and with inspection deep Considered every creature, which of all Most opportune might serve his wiles; and found The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field.†   (source)
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