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noun

Ark n.

A chest, or coffer. (Obs.) "Bearing that precious relic in an ark."

(Jewish Hist.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Hence: Any place of refuge.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

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"Ark" Quotes from Famous Books

... only live at the Friary, and have Dorothy to do all the rough work," sighed Nan, with a sudden yearning towards even that very shabby ark of refuge: "if we could only be together, and see each other every day, things would not be ...

— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

... omnibus, that went lurching along through the snow, like a mudscow gone astray among ocean waves. She had an idea that everybody was talking at once, but that was just as well, since not a syllable was audible above the creaking and rattling of the big ark. ...

— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller

... Could they escape? Was this ark stranded on the island for their benefit? If it were seaworthy, whither should they steer—to those islands whose blue outlines were ...

— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy

... signs of internal disorders, and perhaps may think that the clouds are gathering which, herald one of the comings of the Son of man to judgment, whether the last of all or not it were vain to ask; how blessed would it be, if we could see such an ark of Christ's Church as should float visibly upon, the stormy waters; gathering within it, in peace and safety, men of various dispositions and conditions, and opinions; those who held much of truth, and those who had mixed with it much of error: those whom Christ would ...

— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold

... purified. It was a banishment of my soul from the presence of its Beloved. I could have no access to Him, neither could I have any rest out of Him. I knew not what to do. I was like the dove out of the ark, which finding no rest for the soul of her foot, was constrained to return to the ark; but, finding the window shut, could only fly about. In the meantime, through an infidelity which will ever render me culpable, I strove to find some satisfaction ...

— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

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