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  • Now Cadmus gave his sceptre and its privileges to Pentheus, his daughter's child, who wages war 'gainst my divinity, thrusting me away from his drink-offerings, and making no mention of me in his prayers.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • There, seated side by side with Hera and Hebe, the bride of Heracles, she shall be honoured by men with drink-offerings as a goddess for ever, sharing with those Zeus-born sons of Tyndareus their empire o'er the sea, for the good of mariners.

    Orestes 2008

  • Now Cadmus gave his sceptre and its privileges to Pentheus, his daughter's child, who wages war 'gainst my divinity, thrusting me away from his drink-offerings, and making no mention of me in his prayers.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • There, seated side by side with Hera and Hebe, the bride of Heracles, she shall be honoured by men with drink-offerings as a goddess for ever, sharing with those Zeus-born sons of Tyndareus their empire o'er the sea, for the good of mariners.

    Orestes 2008

  • Sinamane said that he prayed to God, Morungo, and made drink-offerings to him.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • Here the discourse is of salting, which was done at the altar, see Leviticus 2: 13: "In the ascent of the altar, they salted the parts of the sacrifice: and on the top of the altar they salt the handful of meal, of frankincense, of incense, and the mincha of the priests, and the mincha of the anointed priest, and the mincha of the drink-offerings, and the sacrifice of birds."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The money taken thence served to buy the daily sacrifice, and the drink-offerings, salt, wood, frankincense, the showbread, the garments of the priests, and, in a word, whatsoever was needful for the worship and service of the Temple.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The wine and oil we poured — for drink-offerings were all we had to give — made the flames leap higher.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

  • Most of the night I watched with the guard about his barrow, and saw the wake-fire tended, and poured drink-offerings to the gods below.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

  • Because, during the existence of the Temple, wine was offered during the year for a burnt-offering, but on the Feast of Tabernacles they offered two drink-offerings, one of wine and one of water.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

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