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sacred Hindu river in the Indian subcontinent that originates in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal- 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.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- 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.T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
- The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- He was washed in the great river of night, in the Ganges tides of redemption.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Rahel (no Plans, no Locusts Stand I), her back against a pillar, watched Karna praying on the banks of the Ganga.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- The hem of my skirt floats out on the water, reminding me of funeral flowers set upon the Ganges.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Silent they move, majestically slow, Like ebbing Nile, or Ganges in his flow.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- And there is something in this room which reminds me forcibly of the chamber of the Marquise de Ganges [*] or Desdemona.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- When the energy in the ring was almost depleted, he whispered, "Ganga raehta."Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- Naturally, I continued to hunt — grizzlies in your Rockies, crocodiles in the Ganges, rhinoceroses in East Africa.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- Then she spoke to her horse, saying, "Ganga."Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- The sky-born, high-tide Ganges turned to wind!Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- One quiet afternoon Ramakrishna beheld a beautiful woman ascend from the Ganges and approach the grove in which he was meditating.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- 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.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- A flawless tribute to water, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers glorified the four major rivers of the Old World-The Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Rio Plata.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- At the middle point of this hemisphere stood Jerusalem, equidistant from the Pillars of Hercules on the West, and the Ganges on the East.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- Nicolas spent a year as a beggar, following the path of the yogis, across the Himalayas, through Katmandu, along the Ganges, and on to Benares, all on foot.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
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