holy water sprinkler

How to use holy water sprinkler in a sentence

• Their gesture appears to be one of benediction, like that of a modern priest with the holy-water-sprinkler.

  A History of Art in Chalda & Assyria, v. 1 | Georges Perrot

• If she is a sorceress the curate will play the holy-water sprinkler upon her, and report to us.

  The Executioner's Knife | Eugne Sue

• This was the so-called alliance of "the sword and the holy-water sprinkler" (le sabre et le goupillon).

  A History of the Third French Republic | C. H. C. Wright

• But I know that the priest's holy-water sprinkler will readily absolve you of all your sins.

  The Carlovingian Coins | Eugne Sue

• The ecclesiastic passed the holy water sprinkler to his neighbour.

  Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert