Do we say arc or ark

arc 599 occurrences

" At present cultivation is confined to the Armenian foot-hillsan uncertain arc of green from Aleppo to Mosul.

But the railway strikes boldly into the deserted middle of the land, giving the arc a chord, and when Turco-German strategic interests no longer debar it from being linked up, through Aleppo, with a Syrian port, it will be the really valuable section of the Bagdad system.

Picture to yourself Joan of Arc confessing herself to be Messalina.

Invariably, the papers, being at a distance from the fixation-point, and being seen by indirect vision, are arranged, not in a straight line, but in the arc of a circle with a long radius.

The salvage steamer with her big arc lights glowing through the darkness had been the last artistic touch which brought complete conviction.

The great salvage steamer with the arc light went away, but others remained.

And this it did; but no such wind as we did desire; for when the morning came upon us, we discovered all that part of the sky to be full of a fiery redness, which presently spread away down to the South, so that an entire quarter of the heavens was, as it seemed to us, a mighty arc of blood-colored fire.

The next instant, with a mighty twang, and a quiver that made the great stock stir on its bed of rocks, the bow sprang to its lesser tension, hurling the arrow outwards and upwards in a vast arc.

And from this onwards, we were free from molestation; though we had no knowledge but that the quietness of the weed men did but portend a fresh attack, and so, at last, it came to the dawn; and in all this time the moon came not to our help, being quite hid by the clouds which now covered the whole arc of the sky, making the dawn of a very desolate aspect.

The Huns had concentrated the glare of numerous searchlights on the hub of the squadron's activities, so that the speeding planes could be seen darting hither and thither like bats during an August evening, darting around some arc-light in the street.

Joan of Arc | 1474(c).

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc, in Standard English Classics, etc.; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in Temple Classics, Morley's Universal Library, Everyman's Library, Pocket Classics, etc.; Selections, edited by M. H. Turk, in Athenæum Press; Selections, edited by B. Perry (Holt).

Read a passage from The English Mail-Coach, or from Joan of Arc, or from Levana, Our Lady of Sorrows, and comment freely upon it, with regard to style, ideas, interest, and the impression of reality or unreality which it leaves.

(1422-1461), Joan of Arc appeared and saved France.

Having followed the battalion, I found myself a few yards in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

However, we were on our legs again and had doubled the Arc de Triomphe.

[Illustration: THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE, EAST SIDE (THE FINEST), UNINJURED.

Yesterday they fell in the Avenue de la Grande Armée; to-day they fly over the Arc de Triomphe, and fall in the Place d'Eylau and the Avenue d'Uhrich.

HORTON, MURIEL Y. Natural trigonometric functions to seven decimal places for every ten seconds of arc together with miscellaneous tables.

Natural trigonometric functions to seven decimal places for every ten seconds of arc together with miscellaneous tables.

The broken arc, by Mayette Meyneng.

He found himself in the arc of a loose curve of pursuers.

The horizon is the black line of a broken arc.

In troubled dreams I went from land to land, Each seven-colored like the rainbow's arc, Regions where never fancy's foot had trod Till then; yet all the strangeness seemed not strange, At which I wondered, reasoning in my dream With twofold sense, well knowing that I slept.

The sending apparatus was so arranged that continuous oscillations are set up in the ether, either by a high-frequency machine or from an electric arc.

ark 640 occurrences

The Chase on the IslandThe Chase on the LakeThe BearGambling for GloryAnecdote of Noah and the Gentleman who offered to Officiate as Pilot on Board the Ark CHAPTER XXI.

"The dove, not bein' a good judge of genuine stuns, made her "Shoo fly" back to the old ark, and told her tail.

"Whose trunk is it?" "Where did you get it?" "Looks as if it had come out of Noah's ark.

Compare the whole account with the narrative in 1 Samuel v. about the Ark and Dagon, that "twice-battered god of Palestine.

"It looks as ef it come out o'the Ark!" "Last Sunday yew said it looked splendid"; his tone was absent-minded again.

But above all, what I relished was Stackhouse's History of the Bible, where there was the picture of the Ark and all the beasts getting into it.

This delighted me, because it puzzled me, and many an aching head have I got with poring into it, and contriving how it might be built, with such and such rooms, to hold all the world if there should be another flood, and sometimes settling what pretty beasts should be saved, and what should not, for I would have no ugly or deformed beast in my pretty ark.

Besides the picture of the Ark, and many others which I have forgot, Stackhouse contained one picture which made more impression upon my childish understanding than all the rest.

If it comes to that, the owner himself never confided in me just what the large idea was in buying this ark for a plaything.

The dove came twice again unto the ark, With messages of peace, and hope, and joy, But the third time return'd not.

The Russians bombarded the "Ark" for a day or more, killing a large proportion of its defenders.

In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy ark; What sea soever swallow me, that flood Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood.

The ark of Noah rested on Arrarat, one of the mountains of Armenia.

There was a cabin for Lady Kirkbank's Rilboche and Lady Lesbia's Kibble, where the two might squabble at their leisure; in a word, everything had been done that forethought could do to make the yacht as perfect a place of sojourn as any floating habitation, from Noah's Ark to the Orient steamers, had ever been made.

If the ark had been like this, I don't think any of the passengers would have wanted the flood to dry up.' He shook hands with Lady Lesbia as he spoke, and with Lady Kirkbank, who looked at him as if he were part of her dream, and then he sank into the chair on Lesbia's left hand, with the air of being established for the rest of the day.

"Because Moses was a little thing when they found him, and then the ark of bulrushes was something like a birdsnest.

The large russet trunk with the black "H,"the two linen-cased ones with "Hadden" in full;the two square bonnet-boxes,these, one by one, were dragged and whirled toward the vehicle and jerked upon the rack; but the "ark," as they called Mrs. Linceford's huge light French box, and the one precious receptacle that held all Leslie's pretty outfit, where were these?

"Government money, understandfor the breakwater workingshugetoo many people know here, everywheredon't trust the safetin safe'Noah's Ark'give you my wordHeavens, no!" It boiled down to thisthe money, more money than was good for that antiquated "Noah's Ark" at the bankand whose contemplated sojourn there overnight was public to too many mindsin short, Wood was not only incorruptible, he was canny.

It needed only Mr. Asa Whitelaw, coming up the street from that gaping "Noah's Ark" at the bank, to round out the scandalous circle of circumstance.

I wonder if some one can tell me about it?" "I remember: a dove found a leaf when it was raining and brought it to Noah in the ark," said little Edith, quickly.

The ark and the alphabet.

The ark and the alphabet, by Nathalia Crane & Leonard Feeney.

SEE Bolle, Albert S. Noah's ark.

BRIGGS, DOROTHY BELL. Noah's ark.

The Garden of Eden, and the Ark, and the Loaves and Fishes, and the Hundred and Forty-four Thousand sealed in their foreheads, tell of it, all through the Bible, from first to last.

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