Prior to the inundation, a little west of Philae lay a larger island, anciently called Snem or Senmut, but now Beghé.

Philae, Beghé, and another lesser island divided the river into four principal streams, and north of them it took a rapid turn to the west and then to the north, where the cataract begins.

He treats her like she was dirt.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

Donna was like he was.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was like hitting a sack of salt.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

There was no valley like this on your map.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

: The folk here are civil, and, like the barbarians unto the holy apostle, have shown me much kindness ; and there are a sort of chosen people in the land, for they have some kirks without organs that are like ours, and are called meeting-houses, where the minister preaches without a gown.

In the religious movement of Brahma Kumaris, celibacy is also promoted for peace and to defeat power of lust and to prepare for life in forthcoming Heaven on earth for 2, 500 years when children will be created by the power of the mind even for householders to like holy brother and sister.

... we decree with full precision and care that, like the figure of the honoured and life-giving cross, the revered and holy images, whether painted or made of mosaic or of other suitable material, are to be exposed in the holy churches of God, on sacred instruments and vestments, on walls and panels, in houses and by public ways ; these are the images of our Lord, God and saviour, Jesus Christ, and of our Lady without blemish, the holy God-bearer, and of the revered angels and of any of the saintly holy men.

Though not infallible like holy Scripture, tradition may serve as a lens through which Scripture is interpreted ( see also Prima scriptura and the Wesleyan Quadrilateral ).

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

His book, Ruhnama ( or Rukhnama ), which is revered in Turkmenistan almost like a holy text, has been translated into 32 languages and distributed for free among major international libraries.

Later in some cults Zeus is united with the Aegean Great Goddess, who is represented by Hera, in a " holy wedding " ( hieros gamos ). At some point in their cultural history, the Myceneans adopted some Minoan goddesses like Aphaea, Britomartis, Diktynna and associated them with their sky-god.

Students at the Spiritual University must conquer lust in order to go to Golden Age heaven on earth where children are created by power of mind for 2, 500 years of peace and purity ( like holy swan ).

But when it was transmitted, Moses merely wrote it down like a secretary taking dictation .... every verse in the Torah is equally holy, as they all originate from God, and are all part of God's Torah, which is perfect, holy and true.

The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lie unburied on the battlefield, prey for carrion animals like worms and vultures, the harshest punishment at the time.

The holy oil used at Unction is not stored in the church like the myron, but consecrated anew for each individual service.

The idea of setting aside specific places as holy, treating certain items used in the worship of God with reverence, all go back to the Hebrew Temple worship, and to the visions the Bible records of what worship in Heaven looks like, not just to pagan ideas about " mana.

* Job 15: 15: Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight ; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

He was born at Grenoble of a legal family, and, like his elder brother, the well-known political writer, abbé de Mably, took holy orders ( 1733 – 1740 ) at Saint-Sulpice in Paris and became Abbot of Mureau.

Similarly, when Joan reveals her plan to turn Burgundy against the English, Alençon declares, " We'll set thy statute in some holy place / And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint " ( 3. 3. 14 – 15 ).

People are washing their sins on the holy rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, Sarasvati River, Sarayu, Godavari River, Mahanadi River, Narmada River, Pavoshnl and Kaveri River.

Hence, during the time of Mahamaham festival, it is also believed that taking bath in the holy stream of water from the famous rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, Sarasvati River, Sarayu, Godavari River, Mahanadi River, Narmada River, Pavoshnl and Kaveri River, which are mixed together in Mahamaham tank, would get rid of sins according to Hindu religion.

Some vampires have an aversion to crucifixes, holy water and the like, but Newman portrays this a superstition ; vampires without such " silly ideas " show no ill effects from religious symbols.

When Atiśa learned from his parents of the crowd's status as his own subjects, he prayed that they may " be possessed of merit like that of parents, rule kingdoms that reach the summit of prosperity, be reborn as sons of kings be sustained by holy and virtuous deeds.