Sentence examples for surviving accounts from inspiring English sources

All these collections were scattered in ancient times, and they are known only through surviving accounts.

According to one of the two surviving accounts of the meal, the Native American tribe, the Wampanoag, hunted five deer for the meal.

His exact words will never be known, since the only surviving accounts of his speech were written years later, but he apparently stressed the plight of Eastern Christians, the molestation of pilgrims, and the desecration of the holy places.

No matter that the historical Socrates does indeed seem to have patented the dialogue as a form of philosophical inquiry, the surviving accounts of his conversation are very far from being a documentary record.

Viewers can fly over walls and along mysterious corridors like inquisitive sparrows, or scroll through an English translation of Homer's "Iliad," one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Trojan War.

His face slashed, his body rent by musket balls, he fought savagely until — and here surviving accounts of the battle diverge — he either succumbed to his many wounds or was felled by a single blow from a sword, which left his head dangling from his shoulder by a ribbon of flesh.

"There are no surviving account books or collections of engraved designs".

(Mather provided the sole surviving account of the trial, although we have no evidence that he ever entered the courtroom).

In 1972, Goldstine published The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, a book that contains the best surviving account of the IAS effort.

The resurrection of Christ was also of primary importance, as Paul revealed in his letter to the Thessalonians, the earliest surviving account of conversion to the Christian movement.

From these and other sources the Greek geographer Pausanias in the 2nd century ad compiled the longest surviving account, a story of the 7th-century rebellion with romantic embellishments drawn largely from Rhianus.