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Noah's Ark

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Noah’s Ark
preserves Noah’s family and animals from flood. [O.T.: Genesis 6:7–9]
See : Refuge
Noah’s Ark 

in biblical mythology, the ship on which Noah and his family and animals were saved from the great flood in order to repopulate the world.
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"I dare say, my dear Ardan," replied the president, "but our projectile-vehicle is no Noah's ark, from which it differs both in dimensions and object.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
These rooms are tenanted by different people--by one, by two, or by three lodgers as the case may be, but in this arrangement there is no sort of system, and the place is a perfect Noah's Ark.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Generally each play was presented by a single guild (though sometimes two or three guilds or two or three plays might be combined), and sometimes, though not always, there was a special fitness in the assignment, as when the watermen gave the play of Noah's Ark or the bakers that of the Last Supper.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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