"Dura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said he could not tell whether there was a fracture, until he should take off the scalp; but, at any rate, the operation might be of service in giving vent to any blood that might be extravasated, either above or below the dura mater. The lady and her son were clear for trying the experiment; and Grieve was dismissed with some marks of contempt, which, perhaps, he owed to the plainness of his appearance. He seemed to be about the middle age, ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... 137: The Valley of Dura mentioned in Daniel iii. is here referred to. See Dr. Berliner's Beitraege zur Geographie und Ethnographie Babyloniens; also Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, p. 469. Cf. Berachot, ...
— The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela • Benjamin of Tudela
... of Dura stood an image great and high, With golden forehead broad and bright beneath the morning sky; All regal in its majesty and kingly in its mien, The grandest and most glorious thing the world had ...
— Poems of the Heart and Home • Mrs. J.C. Yule (Pamela S. Vining)
... there named, are, (1) that the angelology and ascetic doctrines are too recent to be of the time of Daniel; (2) that the miracles are of a "grotesque" character, like those which belong to the apocryphal books; (3) that the measure of the golden statue of Dura, sixty cubits by six, is irreconcileable with any theory of proportion suited to the human figure, and still more so with the canon of Assyrian art, as seen in their sculpture, and can apply only to an obelisk; ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar |
