Use god in a sentence
Sentences ending with god
- They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
- And when this wretch in the purple shall close his eyes, he, like the rest of the criminals who have preceded him on the throne, will be proclaimed a god! [10]
- Consider that Philometor will not confirm the donation of the land unless he quits the temple deeply penetrated by the greatness of our god. [10]
- It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
- Most of them were full of the god. [10]
- Instantly a shout went up: "He groans!--he is not a god! [5]
- But when I was devoting myself to the creation of my Nitetis, I envied no man, scarcely even a god. [10]
- Flattery from man to woman is expected: it is a part of the courtesy of society; but when the divinity descends from the altar to burn incense to the priest, what wonder if the idolater should feel himself transformed into a god! [6]
- It was treason to his noble master, whom he loved with tender devotion as a father, a wise, kind friend, and preceptor, and whom he reverenced and feared as though he were a god. [10]
- I devote it to his god. [10]
Short sentences using god
- No god will help. [6]
- He thinks I'm a god. [9]
- Behold the god! [10]
Sentences containing god two or more times
- The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
- Tradition says he was a favorite god on the Island of Hawaii--a great king who had been deified for meritorious services--just our own fashion of rewarding heroes, with the difference that we would have made him a Postmaster instead of a god, no doubt. [5]
- I was looking upon a god, an actual god, a recognized and accepted god; and every detail of his person and his dress had a consuming interest for me. [5]
- The man and the god stood face to face, and the man who was about to lay hands on the god was her lover. [10]
- Next came Plutus, the god of Wealth, followed by Freiberg miners bearing large specimens of silver ore in buckets and baskets; and, lastly, Mars, the god of War, leading by a long chain two camels on which rode captive and fettered Turks. [10]
- A god who is served as this god has been is no god of mine! [10]
- You have put in Buddha--a god, with a following, at one time, greater than Jesus ever had: a god with perhaps a little better evidence of his godship than that which is offered for Jesus's. [5]
- Is there no god but the superman's god, which is himself? [9]
- The Poor Man's Friend is the god of material prosperity in general, and the god of the rain in particular. [5]
- He had been a kind of god to me--a god in a grey frock-coat, with a grey top-hat and field-glasses slung over his shoulder; or in a hunting-suit of the most picturesque kind--great pockets in a well- fitting coat, splendid striped waistcoat. [11]
More example sentences with the word god in them
- Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
- Perhaps the god would show the blind man the right path to recovery. [10]
- Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
- Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or--if need must--to perish for and with him. [10]
- To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
- By a hand-shake with their god I had ground-circuited their wire and got their monster battery's whole charge. [5]
- Of all those who, the day before, had crowded in to defend the god and his house, none were left but Porphyrius and those who were nursing him. [10]
- That the sword which had slain thousands of their sons should have been dedicated to Serapis, and accepted by the god, alienated many of the citizens from the patron divinity of the town. [10]
- And we know when a man has his power from a god by the fact that he does things which he could not do, as a man, with the mere powers of a man. [5]
- In Alexandria there were altars to every god, and worship in every form. [10]
- If one whom we recognized and adored as a god should go abroad in our streets, and the day it was to happen were known, all traffic would be blocked and business would come to a standstill. [5]
- Instead of using wax he had recourse to clay, and formed a tall figure which represented Antinous as the youthful Bacchus, as the god might have appeared to the pirates. [10]
- These stayed to watch the "mad Inglesi," as a foreigner called him, knocking his head against the foot stool of an unresponsive god of chance. [11]
- But there he was, at the top of the ladder; he passed the axe from his left hand to his right, and leaning back a little, looked at the head of the god from one side. [10]
- Those who know Wall Street best, by reason of sad experience, say that the presiding deity there is not the Chinese god, Luck, but the awful pagan deity, Nemesis. [4]
- The great god Vishnu has 108--108 special ones--108 peculiarly holy ones--names just for Sunday use only. [5]
- Finally she gave up the unavailing struggle, cooled her burning face with cold water, and tightened the straps of her sandals to go to the temple; near the god himself she hoped she might in some degree recover the peace she could not find here. [10]
- The flames leapt up into the air and all the Persians fell on their knees and hid their faces, in the belief that the fire was now ascending to their great god and father. [10]
- It had been undertaken by the mandate of the great god Amon, so he had little to dread from Mesu's terrible power. [10]
- But all has turned out well--only that Argutis, whom every one treats as if our old Macedonian blood ran in his veins, was sent yesterday by Melissa with finer flowers for Caracalla's cenotaph than for her own mother's tomb--May her new-fangled god forgive her! [10]
- He thought that too much, for he must live; so the god must be content with a tithe, for the taxes to the State on his earnings were hardly more. [10]
- I would you too could have heard how fervently she addressed the god, and then Hygeia! [10]
- Only"--and he turned to Timotheus--"this house of your god, which has given me shelter, with the priests and the treasure of great Serapis, are spared. [10]
- Thus the god To these hath given an end we never thought. [10]
- To die there, to perish there with her lover, did not seem hard; nay, she felt proud to think that she might await death in the noblest edifice ever raised to a god by mortal hands. [10]
- It is said to hold particularly sacred water, which must be poured as a libation to the god at sunrise, unmixed with any other. [10]
- Yet it was to his god that I dedicated the work of vengeance. [10]
- Rank is nothing to him, he being a god. [5]
- It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! [6]
- The temple ought to be closed, bloody sacrifices to the god should be prohibited--but his image--the noblest work of Bryaxis--to mutilate, or even to touch that would be a rash, a fateful deed, treason to the city and an outrage on the world. [10]
- Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
- I believe they thought he was gifted like a god. [5]
- It was as though they really belonged to a world of lovers that "lived before the god of Love was born. [11]
- For centuries had this startling little scene and the sudden illumination of the niche round the head of the god been worked in precisely the same way at high festivals--[They are mentioned by Rufinus. [10]
- The name of this god was Pua; its body was made of a bird, now eaten by the Hawaiians, and called in their language alae. [5]
- The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers. [5]
- Mechanically, and still thinking of nothing but Irene's deliverance, she fulfilled the task which she was accustomed to perform every day at the sound of this brazen clang, and went to her room to fetch the golden jars of the god. [10]
- If they venture--and they will--to lay a sacrilegious hand on the god, besiegers and besieged alike--the whole world together, must perish. [10]
- The god beckoned them to come, and as we passed out the Rajah was kneeling and reverently kissing his sacred feet. [5]
- An image of their god which he sent to England "was painted upon one side of a toadstool, much like unto a deformed monster. [4]
- The god of Thebes, our Ammon, shall be transformed into Ormuzd,--Isis or Hathor, into Anahita, and those among our gods for whom I can find no likeness in the Persian religion, I shall designate by the name of 'the Deity. [10]
- As soon as the young officer had struck the first blow, and the god had submitted in abject impotence, they had rushed upon him and saved their captain the trouble of ending the task he had begun. [10]
- Phoebicius belonged to the worshippers of Mithras, and he often fasted in his honor to the point of exhaustion, while on the other hand he frequently drank with his boon companions, at the feasts of the god, till he was in a state of insensibility. [10]
- Try to feel the true bearing of my words, and then you will gladly join in the pathetic appeal to the sublime god to return. [10]
- In obedience to the time-honored tradition in Alexandria, after intoxicating himself with new wine in honor of the god, he had rushed out into the street to join the procession. [10]
- At other times the tapers by the side of the god would be lighted or extinguished spontaneously. [10]
- You press for the surrender of a servant of the god, and Philometor will not neglect--" "Will not neglect," interrupted Euergetes, "to inform the mighty Asclepiodorus that he wants the sweet creature for me, and not for himself. [10]
- Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
- This was from the priests of Osiris-Apis who were performing the sacred mysteries of their god, at midnight, on the roof of the temple. [10]
- Close beside it the Israelites had erected on a tall wooden pillar a clay image of the Egyptian god Seth, which one of his Hebrew worshippers had brought with him to protect himself and his family. [10]
- Berenike had greeted the guest with a complaint of the young Roman's recklessness and unseemly conduct, to which Barine added the declaration that they had now sacrificed enough to Zeus Xenios, the god of hospitality. [10]
- The fate of the great god of the heathen was sealed, but in the wide precincts of the Serapeum no one thought of surrender or of prompt defeat. [10]
- It is not the god to whom this building is dedicated who now rules within these walls. [10]
- A hint from the god to offer him a sacrifice on this happy day. [10]
- The shrubs in the garden where she had flung herself into his arms, her blissful walk in the moonlight, and all the crowd assembled for the festival, and finally how, possessed by the god, they had together joined the procession, and danced through the streets. [10]
- The privilege of the floor--a seat, as it is called--in this temple of the god Chance to be Rich is worth more than a seat in the Cabinet. [4]
- This had provoked the feasters, who, being full of wine and of the god, would have nothing that could remind them of the serious side of life. [10]
- The worshippers of the deposed god, sullen, furious, and bitterly disabused, made their way out of the temple and looked up at the serene blue sky, the unclouded sunshine, for some symptoms of an avenging tempest; but in vain. [10]
- The blood of the contending spirits of light and darkness, which usually dyed the west of Egypt crimson at the departure of the great sun god, to-day vanished from sight. [10]
- How was it that the preacher could draw so pitiable a picture of the very same god whose greatness her uncle had praised in such glowing terms only two days since? [10]
- The bystanders believed that the god had snatched him away in his intoxicated legion. [10]
- There is more than one Pope, there is more than one Emperor, there is even more than one living god, walking upon the earth and worshiped in all sincerity by large populations of men. [5]
- For who can tell here--unless he follows the herd and worships Serapis--who can tell to which god of them all he shall turn when he happens to be at his wits' end? [10]
- Pythagoras too, whose teaching is not new to you, worships one god only, whom he calls Apollo; because, like the Greek sun-god, he is the source of light and of those harmonies which Pythagoras holds to be higher than all else. [10]
- What god has taken any care of me? [10]
- The situation is suggestive of a reality and a tangibility that seem at variance with the vagueness and mystery and ghostliness that one naturally attaches to the character of a god. [5]
- Antiquarians concede that such a personage as Hercules did exist in ancient times and agree that he was an enterprising and energetic man, but decline to believe him a good, bona-fide god, because that would be unconstitutional. [5]
- And there was such a lovely sound in the air that I felt as if Horus, the beautiful god of morning, spring, and the resurrection, was kissing me. [10]
- The embers were stirred from time to time by the priests and augurs of every god of the East and West, who also superintended the sacrifices, while warriors of every province of the empire stood round in prayer. [10]
- At last he spoke: "Verily, Croesus, I the great god, the 'sun of righteousness,' 'the son of Neith,' 'the lord of warlike glory,' as the Egyptians call me, am tempted to envy thee, dethroned and plundered as thou art. [10]
- The great and splendid Zeus of the Greeks has been transformed into Serapis here, on the banks of the Nile, and has become a god of the nether world. [10]
- Filled with the spirit of the god, they are able to model truthfully and faithfully even the forms of the immortals invisible to the physical eye. [10]
- Professor Braubach goes so far as to maintain that a dog looks on his master as on a god. [1]
- The man who should unite in one person the good qualities of those two, need yield the palm, as it seems to me, not even to a god! [10]
- When the sea shone with the hue of the sky and lay motionless, as it did to-day, she thought Glaucus, the god of the blue sea, was sunning himself in pleasant slumber. [10]
- How often had she flown hither from her home near at hand to pour oil on the altar of the god of healing--to make some small offering and find comfort in prayer! [10]
- For he who shall be overthrown is no longer a mighty god but an idol bereft of his splendor and his dignity. [10]
- Transformed in the shadowy light, it took shape and dimensions of a spectral god waiting--waiting for the moment to hurl himself down upon the tottering walls and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass. [13]
- I have spoken, several times, of the god Lono--I may as well furnish two or three sentences concerning him. [5]
- Has any one seen her since, at break of day, she placed the first libation from the Well of the Sun on the altar of the god? [10]
- She longed to say something to him, but she could not speak; and she looked on quite unmoved as the statue of the god and the hall in which it stood were wrapt in flames. [10]
- Were I as rich as formerly I would gladly undertake the entire cost; notwithstanding that your malicious god so cruelly deceived me, after all my offerings at his shrine. [10]
- Once, at a revel, Amasis joked Bartja in these words: 'Don't look too deep into Tachot's eyes, for if you were a god, I could not allow you to take her to Persia! [10]
- So clear and resonant were the shouts of joy that they rose high above the flutes and tambourines, the cymbals and lutes of the musicians, who followed the man approaching in the robes of a god. [10]
- This god will remain in the holy peace and seclusion of his garden, undisturbed. [5]
- She had been present at the founding of the city of Arsinoe, as well as at the laying of the corner stone of the temple which was to be consecrated to the new god Serapis in the neighbourhood. [10]
- On a high platform-intended for the display of a small image of Serapis and certain symbols of the god, at great festivals--Glycera, the loveliest hetaira of the town, was drawn in triumph through the temple. [10]
- The sacred precinct Pithom, above which towered the magnificently restored temple of the god Turn, was also still adorned with many superb ones, as well as lofty masts, banners, and triumphal arches. [10]
- Myn uncle Kristan Pfinzing was god sib to me in my chrystening. [10]
- Every line was part of the history of the country, a part of the history of many lives, and it was all part of the ritual of the temple of the great god Chance. [11]
- The god stretches out his hand already for the avenging bow! [10]
- We have given our god the head of Zeus, and the corn-measure on his head is emblematic of the blessing that the husbandman hopes for. [10]
- If it should only occur to them, they would raise murder to the dignity of god of gods, and you to be his high-priest. [10]
- She is the only god to whom living sacrifices are made. [5]
- He is the only god in the firm that has three. [5]
- He was the only god I had ever seen, and I was very favorably impressed. [5]
- He, if any one, was in the habit of being moderate in all things, if only as a good example to his sons; and he had proved in many a Dionysiac feast that the god could not easily overpower him. [10]
- The Comes went off at once to the Hippodrome, preceded by hundreds who had hurried off to tell the assembled multitude that Alexandria had lost her god. [10]
- Without the help of tools or workmen, Emerson makes "Cheshire's haughty hill" stand before us an impersonation of kingly humanity, and talk with us as a god from Olympus might have talked. [6]
- The swift power of the reptile over life and death, was an emblem to the votaries of the power of the god to postpone the death of man or to shorten his days. [10]
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