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The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.
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Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.
The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
`` Yes, I'm still all covered with that soap.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
front fences were covered with Virginia creeper or trumpet vines or honeysuckle.
It is covered ( partly ) with water, air is atop of that.
Lewis could let his eye caress The Prince's divan, covered with a rose-pink and silver Turkish cloth, or admire the lovely tapis, interwoven with gold, that spread across the floor.
On their right rose the embankment covered with brush and trees.
No drummers here, no pipers, and the red coats were covered with a fine film of dust.
the next, a cloud of gun smoke covered a screaming fury of sound, out of which the redcoat soldiers emerged with their bayonets and their cursing fury.
When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.
He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.
The bombproof was a low-ceilinged structure of heavy timbers covered with earth.
I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
The last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.
The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.
It would have to be covered with at least 28 inches of pit-run gravel.
Passing it, the bus climbed a hill, with the covered spice bazaar on the right and Pandelli's, a famous and excellent restaurant, above it.
Inside, the walls are covered with blue and white tile, the floor with red and cream carpets.
I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on which the sultans sat cross-legged.
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The finest Chinese kites are made from split bamboo ( usually golden bamboo ), covered with silk, and hand painted.
The narrative states that the Æsir foresaw his arrival and had prepared grand illusions for him, so that when Gangerli enters the fortress, he sees a hall of such a height that he has trouble seeing over it, and notices that the roof of the hall is covered in golden shields, as if they were shingles.
The leonine body is covered with dusky golden fur, while the underbelly fur is short and white.
Medea took her revenge by sending Glauce a dress and golden coronet, covered in poison.
All parts of the hilt are covered with golden plates, which are engraved with sharp or rounded styli and decorated with niello, or black metallic inlay that contrasts against the golden background.
The inhabitants of the palace " had their loins covered with gold-embroidered cloth and silk, wore poniards with golden hilts, ornamented with pearls and precious stones, and had many rings on their fingers ".
The domes, covered with tin, were uniformly gilded, creating an overall bright but fairly traditional combination of white, red and golden colors.
Nagarakertagama, is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit golden age under the reign of Hayam Wuruk after which some events are covered narratively.
They are between 12 and 16 cm long, weigh 40 to 60 grams, and are uniformly covered in fairly short, very fine pale cream to white hair with an iridescent golden sheen.
The Thai temple has a typical sloping, curved roof covered with golden tiles.
El Dorado (, ; Spanish for " the golden one ") is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into a highland lake.
In November 1730 ( Kyōhō 15 ), the golden dolphins were recast for the first time and covered in wire mesh.
A finer wire mesh covered the dolphins to hide the fact that they were less golden.
The coffin of King Hassan II, carried by King Mohamed VI, his brother Prince Moulay Rachid and his cousin Moulay Hicham, was covered with a green fabric, in which the first prayer of Islam, " There is no god but Allah ", is inscribed in golden letters.
At first, he was used to wear gold and gems on his clothes, having belts composed of gold and gems and elegantly jeweled purses, linens covered with red metal and golden sacs hemmed with gold and all of the most precious fabrics including all of silk.
The shrubs have green shoots with small deciduous trifoliate leaves 5 – 15 mm long, and in spring and summer is covered in profuse golden yellow flowers 20 – 30 mm from top to bottom and 15 – 20 mm wide.
The period from the 1820s to 1900 was a golden age for publishers ' decorative bookbinding, and most dust jackets were much plainer than the books they covered, often simply repeating the main elements of the binding decoration in black on cream or brown paper.
Upon reaching the spot, they found the god missing and the entire area covered with the golden sand of the coast.
Their skin was of a sunny brown, covered with a luminous halo of red-gold hairs ... golden eyes ... faces were compact as a cat's muzzle, their lips full, but subtle at the corners.
* its first monuments are from the 11th century, but the golden epoch covered the period from 14th to 17th centuries.
The central dome is covered by golden discs and reflects sunlight, which gives the structure its characteristic radiance.
The mummy was atop a layer of wax and honey, was covered by a stone slab and had a golden crown on its brow An inscription on the golden chest plate claimed that she was the relatively unknown Rhodugune, a daughter of king Xerxes I of Persia and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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