We boast, O Phoenicians, that we have taught the world its alphabet, but we ourselves have no books beyond the tablets on which we keep the accounts of our ships, our caravans, and our shambles.
Couldn't the tablets be chemically analyzed, and the secret discovered?
The tablets were all right for a journey, he thought, but if he always ate them he would be sure to miss a great deal of enjoyment, since there was no taste to them at all.
Fortunately, he had eaten one of the tablets just before going to sleep, so there was no danger of immediate starvation.
Perhaps they intend to starve me into surrender," he thought; "but they won't succeed so long as my tablets hold out.
Finding the machine disposed to work accurately, Rob left the buccaneers to swim to the ship in the best way they could, while he dropped down to the deck again and recovered from the cabin his box of tablets and the electric tube.
The old gentleman stared at Rob a moment and then laid down his magazine and took the box in his hands, examining the tablets curiously.
At first they could not understand that these small tablets would be able to allay the pangs of hunger; but when Rob explained their virtues the men ate them greedily.
Suddenly Rob remembered that he could assist them, and took the box of concentrated food tabletsfrom his pocket.
Moreover, you may carry enough tablets in your pocket to last for months.
This edifice in the Campus Martius had been constructed by Lepidus by the addition of porticos all about for the tribal elections, and Agrippa adorned it with stone tablets and paintings, naming it Julian, from Augustus.
Of a distinctly more phenomenal nature are the stories of Apollonius causing the writing to disappear from the tablets of one of his accusers before Tigellinus (iv.
Spicy table talk, well mixed with laughter, is better than all the digestive tablets in the world.
In their long sleep, have they dreamed aught of the movement that has led Florence to raise tablets to the names of Cavour and Mazzini upon these walls?
Many a Pope and Emperor has passed through here, to or from the eternal city; the marble tablets on either side record the entrance of Leo X.
Babylonia has brought to light numerous contract tablets of the 5th century B.
The Amarna tablets and those more recently found at Taannek (bibl.
Egyptian conquests in the XVIIIth and following dynasties, or of the period illustrated by the Amarna tablets (S 3).
In the collection of cuneiformtablets disinterred at Amarna in 1887 was found the curious story of Adapa.
In the eighth and ninth tablets the death of Eabani is recorded, and the grief of Gilgamesh.
I will take the tablets of fate of the gods, Will determine the oracle of all the gods, Will set up my throne, all orders control, Will rule all the heavenly spirits.
The tabletsof fate he has snatched from his hands, Seized on the power, the control of commands.
Watching his opportunity, Zu glides in, seizes the tablets of fate, and flies away and hides himself in the mountains.
To that end he lurks about the door of the sun-god, the possessor of the tablets of fate whereby he controls all things.
She gave him the tablets of fate, laid them on his breast.
On the tablets of fate of the god Zu fixes his look.
But the discovery of the Tel el-Amarna tabletshas shown that the culture and literature of Babylonia had made its way to Palestine and even to Egypt long before the Mosaic age.
It was only at last by the help of stratagem that the nest of Zu was found, and the tablets restored to Bel.
Under Semitic influence these "tablets of destiny" lost their primitive signification, and became, like the Urim and Thummim of the Old Testament, simply a means of predicting the future.
The later tablets of the Epic, which are devoted to the glorification of Merodach, are for the most part of little interest for the cosmologist.
It is true that a large proportion of these tablets are contracts and similar business documents, but they contain much that is of importance not only for the social history of Babylonia, but for its religious history as well.
Professor Petrie has found the same festival mentioned on two ivory tablets from the tomb of a king of the First Dynasty at Abydos (Petrie, The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty, pt, i.
It is possible that the Hebrew Urim and Thummim were really connected with the Babylonian "tablets of destiny.
But Emperor Euphrates waved an idle hand at her clay tablets and marking sticks with a nod.
She had a small stack of thin claytablets in their bamboo frames, three of which went in a durable bamboo box in a saddle bag strapped on her mount, in order to have them ready for use on a moment's notice.
Si'Wren was left sitting before the fire, staring down at her assortment of clay tablets as she thought intently about the true nature of the Invisible God.
Now, the memory of her indignity was put aside as Si'Wren sat before Emperor Euphrates and inscribed in her tablets her intuitions regarding the Invisible God.
Neither did she volunteer to hand over any of her writing tablets used earlier to explain the Invisible God to her Emperor.
When Emperor Euphrates told her she had one, two, three, or more tablets with which to record, he was usually giving her a pretty good idea of the scope of the spontaneous summarizing and editing which was expected of her.
She had extra clay tablets stacked beside her, with one in her lap, having just finished the dictations of Borla's notes about the day's journey into this strange land.
She had lost her writing kit, with all that she had written about the Invisible God, but all around her was clay, miry clay, enough clay to fill the whole world with tablets about the Invisible God.
Author's Remarks The story of Si'Wren was culled out of a veritable treasure trove of hundreds of little clay tablets which were found sealed and submerged for over 4,000 years in stone jars.
Coleman ate black bread and chocolate tabletswhile the dragoman hovered near the major with the intention of pouncing upon him for information as soon as his lungs yielded to the strain upon them.
On his knee he broke the hard cakes of bread and with his fingers he broke the little tablets of chocolate.
Coleman ate more bread and chocolatetablets and also some tinned sardines.
The ordinary North Semitic conception of the source of human destinies is that they are determined by the gods and written on tablets or in a book,[1194] and the same conception may have existed in the South Semitic area.
It lacked four hours of midnight before she brought herself to take her tablets and write the following brief note:-- "Fabia the Vestal to Agias her good friend, greeting.
She took the tablets from Herennia's hand, without a word, read the falsehoods once, twice, thrice.
In fact he had at that moment in his hand a set oftablets on which he had been writing.
Fortunately for her, she did not know the contents of the tablets she carried pressed to her breast, or she would have been all the more timorous.
Pompeius, however, reined his rising feelings, and took up and began to re-read some tablets on which he had written an address in Greek, to be delivered before the king.
Ahenobarbus staggered to his feet as Drusus sprang over him, and the latter tore a packet oftablets from his hand, never stopping in his own flight.
I will carry the tablets to Scythia for you, domina," replied the girl, kissing the hem of her mistress's robe.
His tablets tell us that he incorporated with Assyria the land of Nairi, i.
The Hebrew Scriptures and the tablets of the Assyrians then informed us how Israel, trusting in the help of Sabakon, refused payment of tribute to Nineveh, and what misfortunes punished this rebellion in the year 722 B.
Lastly, in two fragmentary tablets the name of Cyaxares is supposed to be concealed in the form Castarit.
We are indebted to this for the remains of the list of years and rulers, the synchronistic tablets of the kings of Asshur and Babel, and a long series of private documents from the time of Bin-nirar III.
These stone tablets were covered with writing on both sides, which must have taken a long time to engrave considering that Moses was on a bare mountainside with probably nobody to help but Joshua.
I have been in this temple when a whole bullock, the skin and entrails having been removed, was kneeling upon a table facing the tablet of the Sage, while sheep and pigs were similarly arranged facing the tablets of his disciples.
Shang Ti, and incense to his ancestors whose shrines and tablets are arranged on the northeast and northwest portions of the altar.
Hypodermic tabletsof epinephrin may also be obtained.
The advice has been given for patients with loss of compensation to receive four tablets the first day, three the second, three the third, and two the fourth day.
The most that should generally be given is one of these tablets in twelve hours.
When it is baked, let it get cold in the pan, then turn it out and cut it into strips or tablets an inch broad and two or three in length.
Among the most important results of recent Egyptian exploration must be reckoned the discovery of the tablets of Tell Amarna.
The writing on these tabletsis cuneiform, and the matter is of profound historic importance, illustrating, as it does, the relations between Egypt and western Asia in the fifteenth century B.
While most of these tabletsare letters and despatches from friendly powers in Syria, and from vassal princes in Palestine, others contain interesting legends.
François Chabas This stele is one of the usual funereal tablets which are found in the cemeteries at Memphis and Thebes.
From other tablets in the collection we obtain similar information, including the use of ivory, as also from the records of tribute to Thothmes III in 1600 B.
Among the house-encumbered hills of great marble Rome I could no longer read the laws inscribed on tablets of green bronze.
The brown man sings: On the house-encumbered hills of great marble Rome no man has ever counted the columns no man has ever counted the statues no man has ever counted the laws sharply inscribed in plain writing on tablets of green bronze.
I have remarked that the allegorical tablets appear to coincide with the designs of the Polifilo: a more accurate examination might, perhaps, prove the fact; and then little doubt would remain.
The Ancestral Temple is also visited, and incense burned before the spirit-tablets and the pedigree-scrolls, which are unrolled only on solemn occasions.
In front of the tablets are set up sticks of fragrant incense, and all the members of the family present themselves in turn and bow reverently towards the souls of their dead forefathers.
There are also tablets and inscriptions of the Han dynasty (ending 220 A.
Tablets of this kind when presented by the official authorities are highly valued by the Chinese, and are preserved as heirlooms.
On ceremonial occasions the tablets are set out in due order, so that the spirits may be comforted by the sacrificial offerings and by the sight of the many prosperous-looking descendants who have assembled to do them honour.
On touching any of these toe pistons all suitable bass tablets are released, and any selection of Pedal stops and couplers that the organist may have arranged on the toe piston operated is brought into use.
At Cluni, Mabillon and Martene found the catalogue inscribed on parchment-covered boards three feet and a half long and a foot and a half wide--great tablets which closed together like a book.
Columba is said to have blessed one hundred polaires or tablets (Leabhar Breac, fo.
These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simpty cerae.
The boy Benen, who followed Patrick, bore tabletson his back (folaire, corrupt for polaire).
But the brethren were not allowed to have a book ortablets or a pen of their own.
Such tablets were indeed books in which the fugitive pieces of the time were written.
Books were supplied, or what is more likely, waxed tablets folded in book form.
Besides books properly so called, the religious used waxed tablets of wood, which were sometimes called books.
Then it was that chance seemed to offer a safe and certain means of putting MacNair away, and he dropped the poisonous antiseptic tablets into the medicine, only to have his plan frustrated by the unexpected presence of Big Lena.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tablets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
