A passage in the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál describes runes being graven on the sun, on the ear of one of the sun-horses and on the hoofs of the other, on Sleipnir's teeth, on bear's paw, on eagle's beak, on wolf's claw, and on several other things including on Bragi's tongue.

Froissart describes, with less specificity in this passage, some of the nobles that were assembled at, or just prior to the Battle: "... the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who always made report to the king what the Englishmen did.

A passage from Henri Christophe's personal secretary, who lived more than half his life as a slave, describes the crimes perpetrated against the slaves of Saint-Domingue by their French masters:

He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness-to the Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation: " amongst a waste of excavations "-disorganized, machinery parts here and there, now and then explosions of demolition, weakened native black men, that have been demoralized, in chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle.

Calvin then describes the New Covenant using the passage from the Apostles ' Creed that describes Christ's suffering under Pontius Pilate and his return to judge the living and the dead.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

This passage describes how Hrothgar's legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a baby, washed ashore, and adopted by a noble family.

In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Hebrew Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him.

The research led by Professor Jean-Pierre Colinge was published in Nature Nanotechnology and describes a control gate around a silicon nanowire that can tighten around the wire to the point of closing down the passage of electrons without the use of junctions or doping.

In a notable passage, he describes the silent terror in the moments preceding an attack, as he is forced to abandon the " safe " protective trench for an external unknown, risky, undefined world: “ All the machine-guns are waiting for us ”.

Some apocrypha and pseudepigraphic sources express pessimism about human nature (" A grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning "), and the Talmud ( b. Avodah Zarah 22b ) has an unusual passage which Edward Kessler describes as " the serpent seduced Eve in paradise and impregnated her with spiritual-physicial ' dirt ' which was inherited through the generations ," but the revelation at Sinai and the reception of the Torah cleansed Israel.

Tacitus describes the Chauci as ' peaceful ' in his Germania ( AD 98 ), but this is in a passage describing the non-coastal, inland Chauci, whereas sea raiders are necessarily a coastal people.

Some scholars believe the description is of a far later date than Moses, and that it reflects the structure of the Temple of Solomon ; others hold that the passage describes a real pre-monarchic shrine, perhaps the sanctuary at Shiloh, while traditional scholars contend that it describes an actual tabernacle used in the time of Moses and thereafter.

Thornton describes the Crit as a " rite of passage " for the students and as the artist's " most influential " work-" an institutional critique that reveals the limits of the rest of the curriculum.

The last line of the poem describes Turnus ' unhappy passage into the Underworld.

An oft-quoted passage from the Bhagavad Gita describes the typical role of an avatar of Vishnu — to bring dharma, or righteousness, back to the social and cosmic order:

In this passage Tsuji describes the birth of an Epicurean out of someone who experienced the transience of such eternal-seeming icons as the Ryōunkaku and greater Tokyo.

Frank Herbert describes such a spice blow in the following passage from Dune:

This passage also describes Judah as the strongest of his brothers in which rabbinical literature portray him as having had extraordinary physical strength, able to shout for over 400 parasangs, able to crush iron into dust by his mouth, and with hair that stiffened so much, when he became angry, that it pierced his clothes.

A passage from Henri Christophe's personal secretary, who lived more than half his life as a slave, describes the crimes committed against the slaves of Saint-Domingue by the French colonists:

Thus this passage describes how the centrality of the ancient city of Jerusalem and of the altar of the ancient temple of Jerusalem within cosmic framework was equated to the navel of a mother that was seen as the source of life.

It has been suggested that the passage in Festus describes a transvestite initiation ritual.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

For example, in the following passage, a Broca's aphasic patient is trying to explain how he came to the hospital for dental surgery:

In a graphic passage, Douglass asked Auld how he would feel if Douglass had come to take away his daughter Amanda as a slave, treating her the way he and members of his family had been treated by Auld.

Realizing from the vote to stall that the act faced an uphill struggle, the Pierce administration made it clear to all Democrats that passage of the bill was essential to the party and would dictate how federal patronage would be handled.

Then, five pages later, she quotes the same passage again, but this time in full, straw and all, to show how witches had hallucinations of flight ( Murray 1921, 105-6 ); she does not realise that she has thereby wrecked her previous rationalistic interpretation of the passage.

In a passage of his own history of his times, long excerpted from that work and printed clandestinely in the Conclavi de ' Pontifici Romani, Aeneas explained how he frustrated the ambitions of d ' Estouteville.

In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius, who, in a lost passage of his Annals, told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do ; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans ; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.

After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1946 by Congress, which called for the removal of Communist union leadership, the IWW experienced a loss of membership as differences of opinion occurred over how to respond to the challenge.

" Emily Griesinger wrote that fantasy literature helps children to survive reality for long enough to learn how to deal with it, described Harry's first passage through to Platform 9¾ as an application of faith and hope, and his encounter with the Sorting Hat as the first of many in which Harry is shaped by the choices he makes.

If he allowed too much time to elapse between the initial drafting of a passage and its later elaboration, he found that he could not remember how he had intended to orchestrate the draft.

In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock.

" The context of this passage refers to the yoke of Sennacherib, and how his oppressive nature is overturned by that of Hezekiah who was said to be as mild as oil.

In order to save the required number of lemmings to win, one must determine how to assign a limited number of eight different skills to specific lemmings that allow the selected lemming to alter the landscape, to affect the behavior of other lemmings, or to clear obstacles in order to create a safe passage for the rest of the lemmings.

" Similarly, a passage in 1 John says, " This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God.

A pair of tumuli at Marathon, Greece indicate how a built rectangular ( but unvaulted ) central chamber was extended with an entrance passage.

Emily Griesinger wrote that fantasy literature helps children to survive reality for long enough to learn how to deal with it, described Harry's first passage through to Platform 9¾ as an application of faith and hope, and his encounter with the Sorting Hat as the first of many in which Harry is shaped by the choices he makes.

This miracle, as told by the Qur ' anic passage, was a demonstration by God to show Abraham how God gave life to the dead.

In one passage of the book, Sweetin discusses breaking into tears while addressing a crowd at Wisconsin's Marquette University about growing up on television and about how much her life had improved since getting sober — all while coming down from a two-day bender of methamphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy.