"Drawing lots" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were coming out, appeared, and they started. Some of the men were drawing lots to see if they should shoot in the morning or in the afternoon. The party was primarily for Lady Ethelrida's birthday, and the ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... offences—for had I not actually been engaged in a plot for the destruction of property? How did the court know that I had not spent the night before the riot, as "the doctor" and his friends did before the riots of 1839, in drawing lots for the estates of the surrounding gentlemen, with my deluded dupes and victims?—for of course I, and not want of work, had deluded them into rioting; at least, they never would have known that they were starving, if I had not stirred up their evil passions ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... way to do. If I'm ever ill, I don't want you drawing lots which shall go to my funeral. ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... 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
... Drawing Lots.—It is often necessary to distribute things by lot. Do it by what children call "soldiering:" One stands with his back to the rest' another, pointing to the portions in succession, calls out "Who is to have ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton |
