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Usage examples of ararat.

For Jessie the people were her entertainment, this unending procession filing past her counter two by two, nervous, awkward, the sense of exposure painfully acute, each hoping they were not going to get dumped overboard before reaching the Mount Ararat of nuptial bliss.

Here too is Mount Ararat, where it is said the ark rested--another identification with the Flood regions, as it represents the usual transfer of the Atlantis legend by an Atlantean people to a high mountain in their new home.

So overboard he goes again, to hunt for another Ararat and find another quicksand.

The season was now advanced into high spring, and, Sulla was informed, all the passes except the ones around Ararat were open.

Should he wish to skirt Ararat, however, those passes would also be open by the time he reached the area.

He had used up his time of grace getting as far as Ararat, not more than two hundred miles from Tigranocerta as a bird would have flown.

Lucullus had done when they saw Mount Ararat in the distance and realized that Lucullus expected them to climb over it.

The Marquis of Ararat, minister of the navy, made a similar complaint.

Leave Parnell for Ararat and when you arrive Parnell may not have been discovered, might have centuried to dust in the wake of your passing.

And E-l must be the Sub-Jove camp's access point to the computer systems, a node located outside the Mount Ararat base.

They crossed the Pamirs and the Hindu-Kush, the place where the Caspian Sea had been swallowed up in the universal ocean, and ran over Ararat, which three months before had put them into such fearful danger, but whose loftiest summit now lay twelve thousand feet beneath their keel.

Through a variety of complicated ruses I obtained a clearance into the unfinished system, created a hidden subsystem that would siphon off memory and juggle the figures to hide that fact, and moved my experiment there-an electronic Ararat on which my ark could find safe harbor, if you'll excuse a rather ripe metaphor.