Sentence examples for asked the god from inspiring English sources

Midas in Greek myth was, it is true, an image of greed – he is the man who asked the god Dionysius to turn everything he touched to gold.

It asked "the God of our many understandings" for seven blessings, and to help Obama, as President, in seven ways.

As a teenager, Mason had asked the gods for quite a lot.

"We asked the gods who made Japan, Izanagi and Izanami, to come down and listen to us," he said.

All this is amusing; but the book's editor, Joelle Biele, has crammed in footnotes that record every comma the editors introduced, or failed to introduce, or asked the gods of punctuation for permission to introduce.

At times I've even asked the gods, "Help me out on this".

There, the two ask the god Godan (Odin) for victory.

The procedure was to ask the god a "yes" or "no" question concerning the right or wrong of an issue.

At length Thrasymachus said, Let us ask the gods.

In her case, asking the gods for certain external criteria had produced results.

Everyone goes and prays and asks the gods to help with their children — do they all do well?