"Drawing lots" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... type, sit at stalls in street and market-place, ready for a small fee to advise those who consult them on any enterprise to be undertaken, even of the most trivial kind. The omens can be taken in various ways, as by calculation based upon books, of which there is quite a literature, or by drawing lots inscribed with mystic signs, to be interpreted by the fortune-teller. Even at Buddhist temples may be found two kidney-shaped pieces of wood, flat on one side and round on the other, which are thrown into the air before an altar, the results—two flats, two rounds, or one of each—being ...
— The Civilization Of China • Herbert A. Giles
... So, after much debate and disagreement on their part Elizabeth and her mother had had the slope beneath the Eyrie laid out in plots exactly alike, one for each guest, and the question of ownership had been settled by drawing lots. Each plot owner might plant and cultivate her own garden in her own way. These ways differed widely, hence the varied color schemes and diversifications of design noted by Sears on his first visit. The most elaborate—not to say ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... on board, and he is represented as having to remember all the articles, instead of making a record of them. Another case still more striking is adduced. In the course of the contest around the walls of Troy, the Grecian leaders are described at one time as drawing lots to determine which of them should fight a certain Trojan champion. The lots were prepared, being made of some substance that could be marked, and when ready, were distributed to the several leaders. Each one of the leaders then ...
— Romulus, Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... than that. We will use Mina's idea of drawing lots about the work. There are certain things to be done each week—each day, of course. Two girls must 'tend fires and cook; two girls must air and make beds, clean up about the tents, and wait on table if needed; the other two must get up early and go for the milk and vegetables, gather ...
— Wyn's Camping Days - or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club • Amy Bell Marlowe
... Catoptromancy^; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy^; by dreams, Oneiromancy^; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy^; by finger rings, Dactylomancy^; by numbers, Arithmancy^; by drawing lots, Sortilege^; by passages in books, Stichomancy^; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy^, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy^; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy^; by ventriloquism, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... 1910 but this created dissatisfaction at Peking. In the same year[969] a decree was issued deposing him from his spiritual as well as his temporal powers and ordering the Agents to seek out a new child by drawing lots from the golden urn. This decree was probably ultra vires and certainly illogical, for if the Chinese Government recognized the Lama as an incarnation, they could not, according to the accepted theory, replace him by another incarnation ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot |
