libation

How To Use libation In A Sentence

• He pours libations at his father's tomb and a seven spiraled serpent slithers from the mound.
• Those influences of the Spirit which believers now enjoy are at once a prelibation or antepast of future blessedness, the same in kind though immeasurably less in degree; and a pledge of the certain enjoyment of that blessedness. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
• I leave all this to the successor I pointed out in the commencement of this work, and satisfy myself merely with the prelibation, the right of the first comer to every sacrifice. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
• The following selection of essential libations can be lined up in a row to make the ideal Christmas bevvy buffet, and if you drink with respect, pacing and elegance, you can make your way through all of them.
• The process of selling libations and meal offerings required purchasing and then redeeming different tickets, which were specifically marked to prevent fraud.
• The horror of life mixed itself already in earliest youth with the heavenly sweetness of life; that grief, which one in a hundred has sensibility enough to gather from the sad retrospect of life in its closing stage, for me shed its dews as a prelibation upon the fountains of life whilst yet sparkling to the morning sun. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
• It was a great night on the beach, a warm south-westerly blowing on shore, a canopy of stars, excellent buffet and, of course, rivers of reds, whites, beer, soft drinks and other libations flowing endlessly.
• Along with animal sacrifices, and offerings from other crops, libations of wine were poured out to the gods by Italians and Greeks, and there were similar practices in the Levant.
• Last seen, Jerry was celebrating with soda water instead of his customary libation in a brown bottle.
• If you're like most people in Montreal, you're probably looking for something to do on a Saturday night that's the perfect mix of the right music, a taster's choice of libations and intoxicants, and a good helping of debauchery.