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n. (plural of joss stick English)
Usage examples of "joss sticks".
This particular Sunday, with a brisk, cool wind blowing in from the Huang Pu River, Zilin, dressed in a dark pinstriped business suit, entered the precincts of the cemetery clutching in his white fists the joss sticks that he ritually lit in front of the grave while he knelt, reciting the Buddhist sutras that should have been said at the funeral Mai had never had.
He resolved to be at her final burial, to light joss sticks before her gravestone, and to say the prayers of reverence for the safekeeping of her spirit.
The room was all shadow, only the faint smoke rising from the joss sticks burning in the bronze bowl.
At the graves of his family, Godo lit the joss sticks, bowed his head, said the Buddhist prayers for the dead.
He remembered saying a silent prayer in Latin as the joss sticks were lighted, and the priests began their singsong litany.
From his suitcase he took a cloth roll and extracted half a dozen joss sticks.
But most significant was a bundle of rose-scented joss sticks that were smoking in front of the altar.
He and Pandaras walked around the well, but apart from the smoking joss sticks there was no sign that Tamora or anyone else had been there recently, and the hushed air was beginning to feel oppressive, as if it held a note endlessly drawn out just beyond the range of hearing.