Ark
The term Ark, derived from arca the Latin word for "chest", and generally synonymous with "refuge", is traditionally used to refer to one of:- Noah's Ark
- Any other similar large ship, see ark (ship)[?]
- the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was said to have been laid
- The Ark of the Covenant
- please add any other uses of "ark" to this list
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history than any other of Mark Twain's travel-books. The notes for it
experience, plenty of incident to set down. His idea of descriptive
he had not then acquired the courage of his inventions. We may believe
and there; but even those happened substantially as recorded. There is
elucidate.
The old note.html">note-books give a light here and there that is interesting. It
penciled memoranda were the fresh, first impressions that would presently
down in the very midst of that care-free little company that frolicked
now; but to us they are as alive and young to-day as when they followed
before the Sphinx, impressed and awed by its "five thousand slow-
serious, humorous, sometimes profane. Others are statistical,
them, with a pride not always justified by the result. The earlier notes
looking woman who owns a dog and keeps up an interminable biography of
laughing young fellow who once made a sea voyage to Fortress Monroe, and
another young man, "good, accommodating, pleasant but fearfully green."
and have his picture on page 71 (old edition), while opposite him, on
(the note-book says) had the habit of "smelling in guide-books for
festering in his brain." Sometimes there are abstract notes such as:
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing that no one had
presents the "Poet Lariat." This is the entry, somewhat epitomized:
BLOODGOOD H. CUTTER
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