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  • Night lent to these august mysteries a veil which was forbidden to be drawn aside -- for whoever it might be. 24 It was the sole occasion for the representation of the passion of Bacchus [Dionysus] dead, descended into hell, and rearisen -- in imitation of the representation of the sufferings of Osiris which, according to Herodotus, were commemorated at Sais in Egypt.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Mark how expressively it drops to the solemn vowel ‘O, ’ and anon how expressively it reasserts itself to express rearisen delight: —Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

    VII. Some Principles Reaffirmed 1916

  • The round-up had started; so Sylvane gave me his horse, Baldy, which sometimes bucked but never went over backwards, and he got on the now rearisen Ben Butler.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • The round-up had started; so Sylvane gave me his horse, Baldy, which sometimes bucked but never went over backwards, and he got on the now rearisen Ben Butler.

    IV. In Cowboy Land 1913

  • Like her, Chryseros Philargyrus, though long past the usual term of human life when my disasters overtook us, survived my nine winters of adventures and lived to greet me as a son rearisen from the dead, in the tenth summer after he had sped me on my way in the midnight woods from Ducconius

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • Sylvane gave me his horse, Baldy, which sometimes bucked but never went over backwards, and he got on the now rearisen Ben Butler.

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • He gave little heed to Ermita, the phenix of nipa that had rearisen from its ashes under the form of blue and white houses with red-painted roofs of corrugated iron.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • Whose hearts were uplift at the blast of thy clarions as men's rearisen from a sleep that was death

    Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • The figure of his old master, so strangely rearisen, brought back to Stephen’s mind his life at Clongowes: the wide playgrounds, swarming with boys; the square ditch; the little cemetery off the main avenue of limes where he had dreamed of being buried; the firelight on the wall of the infirmary where he lay sick; the sorrowful face of Brother Michael.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • Neither the tragic martyrdom of the Báb nor the ignominious attempt on the life of the sovereign, nor its bloody aftermath, nor Bahá’u’lláh’s humiliating banishment from His native land, nor even His two-year withdrawal to Kurdistán, devastating though they were in their consequences, could compare in gravity with this first major internal convulsion which seized a newly rearisen community, and which threatened to cause an irreparable breach in the ranks of its members.

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

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