prayer-wheel

You go through life like a perambulating prayer-wheel, a friend of nobody but the righteous, and the righteous are those who agree with you as to what is right.

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride 2010

Kennedy tells Ford that the half-Kanaka Garland has warm blood whereas Ford's is thin, that Garland laughs and sings, is genial, unselfish and child-like whereas Ford, who lives like an anchorite, "goes through life like a perambulating prayer-wheel, a friend of nobody but the righteous."

“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

They measured distances by taking paces of a precise length and keeping count on a modified Buddhist rosary, fixed positions using a sextant hidden in a false-bottomed travelling chest, and surveyed direction using a compass hidden in the lid of a prayer-wheel.

Five historical figures Carla 2006

Trey apparently knows people who use tongues as a sort of vocal version of a prayer-wheel, but glossalalia is not so innocent.

Speaking in tongues, now, with brain imaging. Ann Althouse 2006

They measured distances by taking paces of a precise length and keeping count on a modified Buddhist rosary, fixed positions using a sextant hidden in a false-bottomed travelling chest, and surveyed direction using a compass hidden in the lid of a prayer-wheel.

Archive 2006-06-01 Carla 2006

Just as the track touches the bay there is a road-post, with a prayer-wheel in it, and by the shore an upright stone of very large size, inscribed with Sanskrit characters, near to a stone staircase and a gateway in a massive stone-faced embankment, which looked much out of keeping with the general wildness of the place.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In the middle of the floor there was a clay fireplace, with a prayer-wheel and some clay and brass cooking pots upon it.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Helena sat in the swinging express revolving the same thought like a prayer-wheel.

The Trespasser 2003

From inside his jacket the old fellow pulled out a prayer-wheel which looked as if it had been with him for many years.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Buddhist evening prayer, when the soldiers tramped round like a human prayer-wheel, was, I subsequently discovered, the chanting of a war-song which had been composed by General Fukushima himself.

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch