Sentence examples for an ark of from inspiring English sources

I haven't thought about Noah's Ark since I was 8. Something about Noah's Ark and 'Ship of Zion' helps me imagine an ark of safety, and an ark as much on this land as beyond.

It has stained-glass windows, an ark of Italian marble, and a historic Henry Pilcher's Sons pipe organ.

In short, what the film industry needs is not an ark of the covenant... but rather a covenant of the arc".

By the end, Doc describes California as an ark of outcasts – a shadow of the refuge the US declared itself for the huddled masses.

It is an ark of symptoms and victims, and some of Adrian's descriptions – a girl with catheter bags hanging round her like a ball-gown, the child with too many fingers and not enough brain cells – are painful to read.

"It seemed to me an ark of some covenant, with hidden doors that swung open to reveal fragrant jars and beautiful bottles, each of which held other secrets," she wrote.

These included the additions of an Ark to hold the Torah scrolls (replacing the original pulpit), an "eternal light" in front of the ark, and a bimah (a central elevated platform where the Torah scrolls are read).

It was an old ark of a place, as my mother would say.

When it was found these were surrounded by an oval of oak posts with smaller branches woven between them, then an outer ark of split oak timbers, and finally a fence of closely set split oak timbers.

In one episode, he meets a space pirate who has murdered the inhabitants of an ark, the last survivors of a doomed planet.

The demands of shooting a blockbuster made an ark builder out of Darren Aronofsky, too.