Sentences with phrase «golden vessel»

And they served drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being different from the other, with royal wine in abundance, according to the generosity of the king.

Temeraire could disagree, very vehemently, but when Iskierka had chivvied a few of her crew — newly brought on in Madras — into bringing up the sea - chests from below, and throwing open the lids to let the sunlight in upon the heaped golden vessels, and even one small casket of beautifully cut gemstones, he found his arguments did ring a little hollow.

And examine real treasures lent by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — cuneiform tablets, Nasca vases from Peru, a golden vessel from Mesopotamia, and more.

I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt.