Sentence examples for buried book from inspiring English sources

In 1823, Smith said an angel directed him to a buried book written on golden plates containing the religious history of an ancient people.

According to Smith, he experienced a series of visions, including one in which he saw "two personages" (presumably God the Father and Jesus Christ) and others in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization.

Smith said that in 1823 while praying one night for forgiveness from his sins, he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates, as well as other artifacts, including a breastplate and a set of interpreters composed of two seer stones set in a frame, which had been hidden in a hill in Manchester near his home.

How we came to uncover that world, and how that world reached out toward our own, is part of the story David Damrosch tells in "The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh".

They even buried books in the woods surrounding the castle, as awkward as gravediggers among the brooding trees.

His startling first novel, "Sister Carrie" (1900), was recommended to Doubleday, Page by Frank Norris, but the publisher, after signing a contract with Dreiser, nearly buried the book, which it considered immoral.

The word scholar connotes heady intellectuals, buried in books and theories -- but what these kids are really learning is how to act.

One, I think it is incredibly important that kids read, and this series of books has ignited a huge wave of getting kids' noses buried in books -- that's fantastic.

Some aboard the train on Tuesday kept their faces buried in books, iPhones and Kindles.

(The stage at that juncture shows clinical furnishings and people's heads frantically buried in books).

This afternoon I came here and buried fifty books below the water.