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Examples
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You may treat it like a urinal because of bad history or social deviance or a holy-water dispenser due to some divine blessing upon specific material objects.
Sacred? To Whom? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Leave your crosses and garlic spray, leave your holy-water pistols.
30 Days Of Night TIM LIBBON 2010
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When the holy-water associations used to get together they used to talk about this guy – like one of their gods.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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When the holy-water associations used to get together they used to talk about this guy – like one of their gods.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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When the holy-water associations used to get together they used to talk about this guy – like one of their gods.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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When the holy-water associations used to get together they used to talk about this guy – like one of their gods.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the
The Abbot 2008
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Surely the Spears clan will have one in their trailer too – somewhere under the pile of holy-water filled effigies of Elvis?
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There was a canopy over the bed and, at its foot, a crucifix and holy-water stoop.
Dining with the Dead Julianne Douglas 2008
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As they passed the threshold, the Baron dipt his finger in the font stone, and offered holy-water to his lady, who accepted it, as usual, by touching his finger with her own.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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