Ablutions

101 The most authentic account of these precepts, pilgrimage, prayer, fasting, alms, and ablutions, is extracted from the Persian and Arabian theologians by ❋ Unknown (1206)

You may have a slight language problem with the staff, and your ablutions will be a little more, um, public than you are used to... ❋ Glenda Larke (2007)

The ablutions were a disgrace, more akin to an open sewer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Referring to political violence, he said "much of the violence in southern African townships stems from the frustration of hungry and jobless people struggling to cope with totally inadequate amenities such as ablutions, water, electricity and roads." ❋ Unknown (1992)

I suspect, however, that the nicest "sense of moral perception" in the world would excuse the omission of a good many "ablutions" in a place where all the water that is used has to be carried more than a quarter of a mile up a steep and rough mountain-path from the nearest stream. ❋ Various (N/A)

His soldiers, and those of Mangku Bumi, who was at one time his ally, were steady adherents of the rites of Islam, so far as they were enabled to observe them, such as ablutions, prayer, the fast of Ramadan, and other practices of the Moslem. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Forms like the ablutions ritual washing before prayer; kneeling and prostrating were practiced by the community of believers long before Jesus' and Muhammad's birth; and are well described in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels. ❋ Wilfredo Amr Ruiz (2012)

Water was always short and our ablutions pretty sketchy, a swim before breakfast being the only rule; we had one hot bath a week, the water being heated in the copper, and each child dunked in turn, beginning with the smallest, followed by our clothes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The good government and wise stewardship of North Carolina having left him restless, he moved to Florida, where he could perform daily ritual ablutions in deep pools of administrative incompetence. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Before entering a temple, it was customary for Egyptians to fast and perform ablutions. ❋ Donna Henes (2011)

The ordinary ablutions were possible in a room with some taps and adequate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At 86, personal ablutions take more and more time. ❋ Emma Lou Thayne (2012)

A week later, Cuthfert neglected his morning ablutions, but none the less complacently ate the meal which he had cooked. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Strictly speaking, we weren't in motion as I performed my ablutions. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

I can remember most vividly that it would take substantial effort from all of us to lower and raise her whenever she needed to attend to her ablutions as she called them, which seemed to be all too frequent. ❋ Unknown (2011)

All through trying to not get out of bed, then getting out of bed, morning ablutions, etc., ❋ Matrixleap (2010)