Sentence examples for pocket bible from inspiring English sources

Livermore also famously possessed one of two known copies of "The Souldier's Pocket Bible" (1643), distributed to troops by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War.

Elsewhere in the building, you'll find amazing illuminated manuscripts, a 1240 pocket Bible and even an original print of the Declaration of Independence.

They were loaded on a train, clutching what they could carry: a bottle of orange soda, a loaf of bread, a collection of pots, a pocket Bible.

Standing at the shelter stairway to get light, Mr. Tanimoto read loudly from a Japanese-language pocket Bible: "For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

When you see Nat Turner's pocket Bible in a massive case, you imagine the man, turning these pages, looking for guidance from his God as he sought freedom and justice.

In the early 1990s everyone in our school received a package which included a packet of Californian raisins, a chocolate bar, a pocket Bible and two large cans of army surplus beef.

Altogether their erasers collected samples from 220 folios – leaves folded to make eight pages – from 72 pocket Bibles.

In the process, he also noticed toothbrushes, rosaries, pocket Bibles, water bottles, keys, shoelaces, razors, mix CDs, condoms, contraceptive pills, sunglasses, keys: a vibrant, startling testament to the lives of those who had been detained or deported.

The researchers had found evidence for the equivalent of a set of 13th-century Europe-wide industry standards, defining the raw material for a labour-intensive copying system that published at least 20,000 Latin pocket Bibles for an eager market.

But since at least 20,000 pocket Bibles were delivered by professional scribes working with quill pens and ink made from oak gall and iron salts centuries before the milling of paper or the invention of moveable type, the supply of unborn animals would have been unsustainable.

Pocket Bibles, painstakingly inscribed by hand in their tens of thousands in the universities of Paris, Oxford and Padua, were made of vellum taken mostly from the hides of calf, sheep and goats, and then made ultra-thin by a process still unknown.