For seven days this rite of consecration was repeated; and every day the altar also was cleansed, rendering it most holy, so that whatever touched it was holy.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It is said that no less than six or seven thousand persons were destroyed on this occasion, charged with no other offence than exhausted nature in the performance of this horrid rite, their brains being mercilessly dashed out amidst the surrounding throng.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
I suppose it was Vincent Rendle's way of taking his tea and has become a sacred rite.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton