Sentence example with the word 'fasting'

fasting

abstinence, austerity, eremitism, hair shirt, hungry, monachism, penance, pinched with hunger, quadragesimal, rigor, sharp-set, unfed, wolfish

Definition n. abstaining from food

Last update: August 26, 2015


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We come to a third widespread reason for fasting, common among savages.   [Please select]

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He had passed many a day fasting.   [Please select]

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Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal.   [Please select]

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Let the crop fail, and the fasting becomes starvation.   [Please select]

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It is ill talking to a fasting man.   [Please select]

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'Do you need no preparation--no fasting, no incantations.'   [Please select]

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Joan had not fasted the day before that, but was fasting when the Voice came.   [Please select]

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"In the olden days, men like me turned monk and found salvation in fasting and penance."   [Please select]

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We will strive against the oppressor with prayer and fasting, as our forefathers would have done.   [Please select]

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His body was attenuated by fasting and study, like that of Saint Bernard.   [Please select]

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Having no children, she ought to have spent her days in fasting and praying and lamenting.   [Please select]

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