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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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