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  • BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

    Block   Wine   Science  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press
  • With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

    Work Out   Water   Guy  
    "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2014.
  • Hello, Officer? Can you help me? My dad got turned into a zombie. You know, we’ve been travelling around getting rid of things that aren’t real, and this time they hit back. I really need someplace to stay – but can you make sure I have some holy water or something wherever it is? And some silver-jacketed bullets? That’d be sweet. Yeah, that’d be totally cool. Thanks. And while you’re at it, can you tell the guys with the straitjackets that I’m really sane? That would help.

    Sweet   Dad   Real  
    "Strange Angels". Book by Lili St. Crow, books.google.ru. May 14,2009.
  • Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

    Water   Earth   Holy  
    John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”
  • Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

    Fire   Water   Buckets  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社
  • All water is holy water.

    Water   Holy Water   Holy  
    Rajiv Joseph (2010). “Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays”, p.69, Soft Skull Press
  • I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

    Giving   Water   Magic  
    FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Aug 10, 2010
  • I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

    Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.123, Pan Macmillan
  • She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

    Kissing   Blood   Water  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
  • Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press
  • Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme

    Water   Ears   Holy  
    Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.93, Delacorte Press
  • To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

    Prayer   Past   Offering  
  • Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

    Daughter   Children   Son  
  • A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

    Fall   Men   Water  
  • Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

    Girl   Princess   Heart  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.551, Simon and Schuster
  • I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

    Giving   Water   Vampire  
  • But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.

    Water   Vampire   Needs  
  • You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing they got right up front?” “The baptismal font?” “That’s it. They got it filled with holy water, free for the taking.” “Brilliant,” I said to Lula. She tapped her head with her finger. “No grass growin’ here.

    Water   Bird   Church  
    Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.119, Hachette UK
  • When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.

    Sweet   Spring   Rain  
    Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd
  • One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

    Sleep   Hands   Drunk  
  • To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

    Prayer   Healing   Past  
  • Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

    Water   Holy   Communion  
  • I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.

    Hard Work   Long   Water  
    "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.
  • You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

    Thug   Men   Oil  
  • I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

    People   Water   Devil  
    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

    Ideas   People   Water  
    Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”
  • Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

    Blessed   Sleep   Doors  
    Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.60
  • Find Dad Bust Holy Water Scam Save the World Buy Groceries Do Laundry

    Dad   Water   World  
    Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.274, Pan Macmillan
  • I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

    Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books
  • Give me a mirror.Or holy water. I'll drink it,even!" I gasped as someone threw water on the side of my face. "A little warning next time would be nice.

    Nice   Mirrors   Giving  
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