Thus whatever doubts Mark Twain might still have harbored regarding the vital propriety of his new career were opportunely overlaid by the very persons he could not fail to respect the most.
In the Messianic time) ye shall loathe and cast away as an unclean thing your graven images with silver coverings and your molten images overlaid with gold," he says (xxx.
The Historical Books and the Pentateuch are themselves very composite structures, in which old narratives occur imbedded in later compilations, and groups of old laws are overlaid by ordinances of comparatively recent date.
In his native town of Ophrah he kept up a great establishment, where also he built a temple with an image of Jehovah overlaid with the gold which he had taken from the Midianites.
He had something of an air of defiance thickly overlaid with innocence; but Madeline went to meet him with hands outstretched.
From what Mrs. Lenox told me, after her visit in the country, and from what I saw myself, I think she is a vulgar little image overlaid with tinsel.
The southeastern part of Utah is overlaid with strata of red and yellow sandstone hundreds of feet deep.
In places the rock is overlaid with thin soil which produces a variety of vegetation.
The eggs were three in number, and dull green, thickly overlaid with reddish specks.
It is overlaid at the edges, where it is attached to the branches, with cobwebs, and a few fragments of moss are stuck on at various points.
Here and there he could distinguish some remnants of his own handiwork, but the whole was overlaid by the most extraordinary flamboyant ornament, and abounded in passages which he recognised as pure Legionese.
The facade, painted in various colours, and overlaid with ornament, resembles by far more a Buddha temple than a Roman Catholic church.
The ornaments, the sacred vessels, and censers used in performing mass are exceedingly rich and valuable, but are too much overlaid to please an aesthetic taste.
The place was overlaid with powdered perfumes and flowers and fragrant plants, and hung over with garlands and wreaths.
On the expiry of His night, Brahman, waking up, modifies the indestructible chit by causing it to be overlaid with Avidya.
I had imagined that George, even with an Irish estate, an Irish upbringing and an unmixed Irish ancestry, was too much overlaid with his English associations to feel more than academically on the Irish aspirations.
Granite may be exposed to the surface of the earth when the rocks which once overlaid it have been worn away or "denuded.
The statue is of hammered copper thicklyoverlaid with gold-leaf.
The Holy Place was graced by but one candlestick instead of ten; and by a single table for the shew-bread instead of the ten tables overlaid with gold which stood in the first Temple.
Moreover, the interior was richly embellished with overlaid work in pure gold.
This was a casket or chest, made of the best wood obtainable, lined and overlaid with pure gold, and provided with four rings of gold to receive the rods or poles used in carrying the Ark during travel.
And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
It was hung upon four pillars of wood overlaid with gold; the hooks were of gold and the sockets of silver.
The Oracle was prepared for the reception of the Ark of the Covenant, and to overshadow that holy vessel there were prepared the two great cherubim, each ten cubits high; these were of olive wood overlaid with gold.
So much had happened in so short a time that Ross's initial shock at the destruction of the gate had faded, been well overlaid by all the demands made upon his resources, skill, and strength.
Like the guards he wore supple armor, but this had been colored or overlaid with a pearly hue in which other tints wove opaline lines.
The dome, two hundred and ninety-six feet high, is surmounted by a golden cross and covered with copper, overlaid with gold.
Spain was originally occupied by Iberian tribes (akin to the present Basque inhabitants of the north), who were partially overlaid by invading Celts.
The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
And the boards themselves heoverlaid with gold casting for them sockets of silver.
The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver.
And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates of brass: 38:7.
King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: andoverlaid it with the finest gold.
And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.
And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him.
And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold within and without.
And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about, 37:12.
And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.
And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.
EpJer 6:39 Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.
The religion of the poem is peculiar; it is a Shamanistic animism, overlaid with Christianity.
And a splendid bow he fashioned, 30 And he formed the bow of iron, Overlaid the back with copper.
What can be more surprising then to have our chambers overlaid with varnish more glassy and reflecting than polisht Marble?
It is built of pinewood overlaid with lignum vitae, sycamore and walnut, in small roundish pieces cut across the grain.
This bureau, which contains in all about thirty drawers and recesses, is built of red deal overlaid with thick veneers of walnut and fine knotted pollard oak of dark hue, with cross-banded edges of walnut in various shades.
And there were diverse kinds of excellent seats and costly beds, and bedsteads made of gold and gems and overlaid with cloths and carpets of great beauty and value.
He who gives unto a Brahmana a good bed perfumed with fragrant scents, overlaid with an excellent sheet, and equipped with pillows, wins without any effort on his part a beautiful wife, belonging to a high family and of agreeable manners.
This deeply significant distribution was overlaid by saint worship, which overflowed the Semestre Domini.
In the Roman period the regions of the Rhine and the Danube had become Christian countries, but the rush of the migration of the peoples had partly destroyed the Christian foundations, partly overlaid them with heathen superstitions.
There is again a floor of folded Archean rocks overlaid by nearly horizontal strata of Lower Palaeozoic age, but these are followed by marine beds belonging to the Carboniferous period.
Here the folded Archean rocks are overlaid by Cambrian and Ordovician beds, which still lie for the most part flat and undisturbed.
The older rocks are overlaid unconformably by Cretaceous beds, consisting chiefly of sandstones with seams of coal, the whole series thinning rapidly towards the north and thus indicating the neighbourhood of the old shore-line.
Her dress showed rather more effort at fashion than was quite in keeping with her very rural surroundings, and her speech and accent betrayed a childhood spent among uneducated folk and only overlaid by more recent schooling.
He went with the definite purpose of writing a book of impressions, and these were to be principally the impressions of a "restored absentee," reviving the sunken and overlaid memories of his youth.
One of these was overlaid by the other at a very early period in the history of the people, and the theological beliefs of Sumer received a Semitic interpretation.
Sumerian shamanism was overlaid by Semitic polytheism, and in process of time was absorbed into it.
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