Sentence examples for scroll that was from inspiring English sources

In the door's grain I saw, to my astonishment, the span of history, as if on a scroll that was unwinding.

Miss Aberson's story and about a dozen illustrations appeared on a small, short scroll that was built into a box, he said.

These may sound like paradoxes that a rabbi might pose to a student, but they also describe what happened to a prized handwritten scroll that was found to be missing from a temple on May 27.

An ancient scroll that was crushed and burned in a blaze that engulfed an entire town more than 1,400 years ago has been digitally unfurled and identified as a copy of the book of Leviticus.

But it can sometimes become overly precious — as when an eighth-century Buddhist sutra scroll that was kept inside a sculptured wooden tower is unrolled near another boxed collection called "this is not here" (1971), whose Dadaist exotica, gathered by Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, includes inked footprints of John Lennon and Ms. Ono.

"The obvious question was, why would the sexton bury a scroll that's missing four panels?

Kurosawa explained: "This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego".

Antonio Stradivari, an Italian luthier who lived from 1644 to 1737, constructed these violins (and some guitars, cellos and harps) with a distinctive scroll that is a telltale for appraisers.

One of the most unforgettable objects is a scroll that is sparse in imagery except for a fat and happy black cat rendered in ink.

For more Purim-related activities, students can create their own Megillah – the scroll that is read out on the holiday – to tell the story of the festival, complete with illustrations and symbols to denote the moral of their tales.

Leave it to the 21st century to find some hilarity: The contemporary artist Hong Hao, in "Spring Festival Along the River," inserts cutout photographs of picnickers and a special appearance by Bruce Lee into a digital copy of a famous 12th-century scroll that is the Song version of "La Grande Jatte".