fastings
- plural of fasting.
Example Sentences
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It might have been the resort of that Hannah who departed not from the Temple but served the Lord with fastings and with prayers day and night.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana
Wisely they desire that, before all things, the soul may be slowly purged, tried, subdued by fastings; that it may not be burnt in its pride, that it shall not triumph at the stake.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
He is worn out with long fastings and continued abstinence and prayer.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
God stands in no need of any external ceremonies of ours, our watchings, fastings, or cryings, to awaken him, who “neither slumbereth nor sleepeth.”
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
Little suspecting the frame of mind his communication is to find us in, and that, in place of doughty deeds and chivalrous exploits, our thoughts are turned to fastings, mortifications, and whipcord!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James
