Sentence examples for casting of lots from inspiring English sources

The Bible contains many references to the casting of lots to divide property.

The precursors of dice were magical devices that primitive people used for the casting of lots to divine the future.

The casting of lots, not infrequently dice, has been used in many cultures to dispense justice and point out criminals at trials in Sweden as late as 1803.

In a broader sense, the word can refer to anybody who utters the will of a deity, often ascertained through visions, dreams, or the casting of lots; the will of the deity also may be spoken in a liturgical setting.

One well-known instance is the casting of lots by Roman guards (which in all likelihood meant that they threw knucklebones) for the garment of Jesus during the Crucifixion.

Among the other means of discovering the will of the gods were the casting of lots, Sibylline oracles, and, more commonly, the examination of the entrails of animals slain for sacrifice.

In a way it is something of a hybrid - half novel, half short story - trying to achieve in a few dozen pages what the novel achieves in a few hundred: a large cast of characters, lots of realistic detail.

Lots of casts means lots of worms, which means healthy soil.

And we have a really exciting cast of a lot of people who have not been overexposed, which is great.

A movie likely to conjure up fond childhood memories, reimagined with an all female cast is the recent subject of lots of dissonance.

"Effectively, you are casting lots of aspersions about lots of people without any evidence".