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  • The parting of the Red Sea especially offended him.†   (source)
  • Are miracles something like the Red Sea parting or more like Evan Walker finding me locked in a block of ice in a wilderness of white?†   (source)
  • I close my eyes, think of pain as big as the ocean, think of a blood-red sea.†   (source)
  • Except that this time Pharaoh shows up on the doorstep threatening to drag them back across the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • He parted the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • I'm small and all I remember are dreams of blood, me drowning in a red sea, blood on sheets, on the walls,splashing against the white pail in streams out of my mother's ankle.†   (source)
  • Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea …. to Joseph Smith using magic eyeglasses to translate the Book of Mormon from a series of gold plates he found buried in upstate New York.†   (source)
  • Every year they put on their Christmas pageant at the Beaufort Playhouse, which was actually a play that had been written by Hegbert Sullivan, a minister who'd been with the church since Moses parted the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • With the possible exception of that scene in The Ten Commandments where Charlton Heston parts the Red Sea, Marley had presented the biggest logistical nightmare in the history of cinema.†   (source)
  • Beyond it, the wine-red sea glimmered with the last rays of the dying sunset.†   (source)
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  • Everyone turned and stared at Stevie Rae as if she'd just parted the Red Sea or something.†   (source)
  • Percy kept one eye on the red sea serpent, which was still slithering through the waves about a hundred yards to port.†   (source)
  • Intel told us that a cargo ship disguised under an Egyptian flag was laying mines in the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • He started forward in a straight line, and the wall of officers before him parted like the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • Hema traced the Gate of Tears as it widened from a hairline crack to become the Red Sea, spooling north to the horizon.†   (source)
  • The Shadow-hunters who had been clustered around the benches drew back, like the waves of the Red Sea parting for Moses, leaving a clear path down the center of the room.†   (source)
  • A path opens for us, like we're the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • Like the parting of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • "That was like the parting of the Red Sea out there," I said.†   (source)
  • You have heard his name from your parents, for it was he who led them to the path, guiding them like a great captain; like that great pilot of ancient times who led his people safe and unharmed across the bottom of the blood-red sea.†   (source)
  • He swung the wheel as he began the next verse, and lightning illuminated a path across the restless wave—and there, in the light of the burning sky, was a gap, a valley or cleft in the wall of rock, like the miracle of the Red Sea, thought Captain Roberts, only, of course, the other way around.†   (source)
  • As it turned out it was hours before her ordeal was over, and during her pains she talked on and on in the emergency room about the parting of the Red Sea and staffs that turned into snakes, so that the doctor began to question his decision to give her painkillers.†   (source)
  • Yes, my God is a mighty God
    Lord, deliver
    And he set old Israel free
    Swallowed that Egyptian army
    Lord, deliver
    With the waves of the great Red Sea
    Etta glanced at Mattie, who was swaying and humming, and she saw that the lines in her face had almost totally vanished.†   (source)
  • And anyway, who were they to say— Suddenly, the bathing suit rack before me parted right down the middle, like the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • Jerry's progress through the corridor was like the parting of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • I stared with the fiercest, most righteous anger and hatred as Jeb Batchelder easily moved through the crowd of Erasers, parting them as if he were Moses and they were the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • The crowd parted like the Red Sea as he led her to his shaking red chariot.†   (source)
  • " It seemed each time Mo Rhodes told the Themista story it got a little bit better, and every time she told it, Misty made an analogy to the Red Sea crashing down; she said that when she imagined Themista's young man, he always looked like Charlton Heston.†   (source)
  • The Red Sea was calm, unremarkable from this height.†   (source)
  • A rose-red sea, the cloud-layer rolled sluggishly beneath him.†   (source)
  • The Fairy Godmother Department watched over me across the Indian Ocean, up the Red Sea, and clear to Napoli.†   (source)
  • In a number of texts Mary's motherhood is compared to the crossing of the Red Sea by the Jews.†   (source)
  • Like Moses parting the Red Sea, Gramps didn't have to wait amid the throng to offer his compliments.†   (source)
  • As they walked, people quieted and moved off to the side, like the Red Sea parting for Moses.†   (source)
  • The Red Sea lay beyond, inert, the whole thing doomed.†   (source)
  • —Could be, Yousef said, and pulled onto the main highway, parallel to the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • The Red Sea was turquoise, a light ripple from a gentle wind bringing the tide in.†   (source)
  • But the sea of fighting figures seemed to have fallen away from them on either side like the Red Sea parting, leaving a clear space around her and Jace.†   (source)
  • The man-made Suez Canal finished the cut and allowed the Red Sea to connect with the Mediterranean, saving ships the long journey around the Cape.†   (source)
  • There I was, in the middle of a war, in the middle of the Red Sea, on a strange enemy ship by myself.†   (source)
  • They would sail the ship to a friendly port in the Red Sea, where it wouldn't be the end of the story for the prisoners by any means.†   (source)
  • She'd point down to the Red Sea and say, "Imagine that ribbon of water running up like a slit in a skirt, separating Saudi Arabia from Sudan, then farther up keeping Jordan away from Egypt.†   (source)
  • Moses and the Red Sea ….†   (source)
  • …Navy Commendation Medal, which read: The Secretary of the Navy takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Commendation Medal to Hull Technician First Class Howard E. Wasdin, United States Navy, for services set forth in the following citation: For professional achievement and superior performance of his duties while serving as air operations specialist for SEAL Team Two Foxtrot Platoon while deployed to the Red Sea in support of Operation Desert Storm from 17 January to 28 February 1991.†   (source)
  • "Tizita" is the heart's anthem, the lament of the diaspora, reverberating up and down Eighteenth Street in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, D.C., where it pours out from Fasika's, Addis Ababa, Meskerem, Red Sea, and other Ethiopian eateries, drowning out the salsa or the ragas emanating from El Rincon and Queen of India.†   (source)
  • He was in the tent, dark and smelling increasingly of people and their things, while outside, no more than fifty yards away, there was the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • He looked at a few dozen palm trees below, planted in the courtyard of either his hotel or the one next door, the Red Sea beyond.†   (source)
  • With his sleeve, he dried the bottom of his glass and placed it on the surface of what he took to be the Red Sea, about a half mile from shore.†   (source)
  • No sooner had he done something, something like hiding behind a hill of dirt by the Red Sea, when he would wonder, Who is this man who leaves the presentation tent to hide behind a hill of dirt?†   (source)
  • He was sitting on a plastic chair on the floor of a foundation in the city by the Red Sea, and the air was cool, and the color of everything was grey, and he was deeply content.†   (source)
  • One of their colleagues in London appeared to be walking around the stage in their Red Sea tent, could react to live questions, could interact with Rachel or Cayley on the stage.†   (source)
  • That is to say, after the Jews crossed the Red Sea it became impassable, as before, and the Virgin after giving birth to our Lord was as immaculate as before.†   (source)
  • For instance there is one verse that begins: The Red Sea is the likeness of the virgin bride,' and goes on to say that 'as the sea was impenetrable after its crossing by the Israelites, the Immaculate One was incorrupt after the birth of Emmanuel.'†   (source)
  • IF THE RED SEA ACTUALLY PARTED, IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT," he said.†   (source)
  • The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck—mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side.†   (source)
  • I saw him pray to God at the edge of the Red Sea, and I saw the Red Sea parted to give free passage, a deep road between piled-up mountains of water (the confirmation classes conducted by the clergy to see this religious film could argue without end as to how the film people managed this).†   (source)
  • Dramatic: 'When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!'†   (source)
  • Through the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea she was left to herself, and to the dregs of Chandrapore.†   (source)
  • But the Red Sea was awful, that trip, and the private soldiers seemed to develop a suicidal craze.†   (source)
  • I observed that the Red Sea's water was becoming less salty the closer we got to Suez.†   (source)
  • Finally, at noon, we were plowing the waves of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs.†   (source)
  • Without it, I wouldn't have ventured today into such a blind alley as the Red Sea."†   (source)
  • "But, sir," the Canadian went on, "in the Red Sea you authorized us to chase a dugong!"†   (source)
  • So the Red Sea won't be our way back to Europe either."†   (source)
  • This Red Sea is 2,600 kilometers long with an average width of 240.†   (source)
  • It fears neither the Red Sea's dreadful storms nor its currents and reefs."†   (source)
  • "Yes and no, Professor Aronnax," answered Captain Nemo, who seemed to know "his Red Sea" by heart.†   (source)
  • It was the water of the Red Sea, hurled toward the Mediterranean by the tunnel's slope.†   (source)
  • That meant, apparently, that he had twice jumped off the deck of a troopship to rescue what the girl called "Tommies", who had fallen overboard in the Red Sea and such places.†   (source)
  • Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.†   (source)
  • His name was familiar at Government House owing to poor Adela, and now Mrs. Moore would stamp it on Lady Mellanby's imagination, as they journeyed across the Indian Ocean and up the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.†   (source)
  • "He left—let's see—the very day a steamer with returning pilgrims from the Red Sea put in here with two blades of her propeller gone.†   (source)
  • One of their bitterest quarrels came after he had, for the second time, in the Red Sea, jumped overboard from the troopship and rescued a private soldier.†   (source)
  • In the Red Sea she had gone mad.†   (source)
  • But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.†   (source)
  • India and the far East received the children of the first; the descendant of the youngest, through the North, streamed into Europe; those of the second overflowed the deserts about the Red Sea, passing into Africa; and though most of the latter are yet dwellers in shifting tents, some of them became builders along the Nile.†   (source)
  • A number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • I'll mention chiefly some trunkfish unique to the Red Sea, the sea of the East Indies, and that part of the ocean washing the coasts of equinoctial America.†   (source)
  • It is thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply.†   (source)
  • A quarter of an hour later found Fix, with a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the Mongolia; and, ere many moments longer, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference; did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old historians always…†   (source)
  • If we can trust tradition, it was probably Egypt's King Sesostris who started digging the canal needed to join the Nile with the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • That locality lies a little above Suez in a sound that used to form a deep estuary when the Red Sea stretched as far as the Bitter Lakes.†   (source)
  • "Hence, Captain Nemo, this isn't the first time you've gone through the Red Sea aboard the Nautilus?"†   (source)
  • As soon as he saw me, he came over, graciously offered me a cigar, and said to me: "Well, professor, are you pleased with this Red Sea?†   (source)
  • "No," I told Conseil, "that's no mermaid, it's an unusual creature of which only a few specimens are left in the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • But their waters of choice are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean near the Greek Islands or the coast of Syria.†   (source)
  • If there were, its underground current had to go from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean simply because of their difference in level.†   (source)
  • After some minutes of silence: "We were discussing," he said, "the views of ancient historians on the dangers of navigating this Red Sea?"†   (source)
  • Strabo saw it used for shipping; but the weakness of its slope between its starting point, near Bubastis, and the Red Sea left it navigable only a few months out of the year.†   (source)
  • On February 9 the Nautilus cruised in the widest part of the Red Sea, measuring 190 miles straight across from Suakin on the west coast to Qunfidha on the east coast.†   (source)
  • I'd noted that in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean there exist a number of absolutely identical species of fish: eels, butterfish, greenfish, bass, jewelfish, flying fish.†   (source)
  • Are there whales in the Red Sea?†   (source)
  • "All right, we'll return, Mr. Land, and after the Persian Gulf, if the Nautilus wants to visit the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab el Mandeb is still there to let us in!"†   (source)
  • On February 5 we finally put into the Gulf of Aden, a genuine funnel stuck into the neck of Bab el Mandeb and bottling these Indian waters in the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • "I don't have to tell you, sir," Ned Land replied, "that the Red Sea is just as landlocked as the gulf, since the Isthmus of Suez hasn't been cut all the way through yet; and even if it was, a boat as secretive as ours wouldn't risk a canal intersected with locks.†   (source)
  • To my thinking, Professor Aronnax, this 'Red Sea' designation must be regarded as a translation of the Hebrew word Edrom, and if the ancients gave it that name, it was because of the unique color of its waters."†   (source)
  • The ancients well understood the usefulness to commerce of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, but they never dreamed of cutting a canal between the two, and instead they picked the Nile as their link.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4 -- The Red Sea DURING THE DAY of January 29, the island of Ceylon disappeared below the horizon, and at a speed of twenty miles per hour, the Nautilus glided into the labyrinthine channels that separate the Maldive and Laccadive Islands.†   (source)
  • The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained by a high rate of evaporation, its water level dropping a meter and a half every year!†   (source)
  • What I can now assert is that I've earned the right to speak of these seas, beneath which in less than ten months, I've cleared 20,000 leagues in this underwater tour of the world that has shown me so many wonders across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the southernmost and northernmost seas!†   (source)
  • Other zoophytes swarming near the sponges consisted chiefly of a very elegant species of jellyfish; mollusks were represented by varieties of squid that, according to Professor Orbigny, are unique to the Red Sea; and reptiles by virgata turtles belonging to the genus Chelonia, which furnished our table with a dainty but wholesome dish.†   (source)
  • These waters witness the reproduction and growth of soft, delicate bath sponges whose prices run as high as ₣150 apiece: the yellow sponge from Syria, the horn sponge from Barbary, etc. But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange–hued lucina with circular shells, awl–shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over…†   (source)
  • Aside and in special compartments, strings of supremely beautiful pearls were spread out, the electric light flecking them with little fiery sparks: pink pearls pulled from saltwater fan shells in the Red Sea; green pearls from the rainbow abalone; yellow, blue, and black pearls, the unusual handiwork of various mollusks from every ocean and of certain mussels from rivers up north; in short, several specimens of incalculable worth that had been oozed by the rarest of shellfish.†   (source)
  • In the red sea of sunlit eyelids his spirit sickeningly rolled and dipped.†   (source)
  • The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.†   (source)
  • From the flat red sea of sand rose great rock mesas, generally Gothic in outline, resembling vast cathedrals.†   (source)
  • Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG†   (source)
  • Sand in the Red Sea done that.†   (source)
  • I was in the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • the Angel that went before the Army of Israel to the Red Sea, and then came behind it, is (verse 19.†   (source)
  • Let Libya with her sand vaunt herself no more; for though she brings forth chelydri, jaculi, and phareae, and cenchri with amphisboena, she never, with all Ethiopia, nor with the land that lies on the Red Sea, showed either so many plagues or so evil.†   (source)
  • 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.†   (source)
  • 15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.†   (source)
  • 10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.†   (source)
  • 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.†   (source)
  • 106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; 106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.†   (source)
  • 15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.†   (source)
  • 136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.†   (source)
  • 23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.†   (source)
  • 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 13:18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.†   (source)
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