It is the nation's oldest rite of social passage.

According to what they had said, he'd messed up the old rites anyway.

To meet this uncommon charge, Korik gathered his company about him for the old rites.

Indeed, many of the old rites had fallen away over time like the leaves off a dying tree, but this one remained.

If you stir up the old rites, the Protestants will have us with the blood on our hands.

"Wife, by the old rite, the one from the Oral History."

But now they would rediscover what the old rite could have done.

"It's true that the tribes have revived the old rites and the blood sacrifices, but I took no part in those."

The old rite, the disclosure to the ancient initiate.

Trying to be polite, the woman murmured, "I had forgotten-they still kept the old rites there, then?"