It would be a great mistake to suppose that the mercy-seat was a mere lid, an ordinary portion of the ark itself.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It seemed as divine as the bird that came of old to Noah in the ark.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The citizen who observed the intense blackness of the night comes to his window again, and notes the steady falling of the rain, and in his reverie pretends to regret that it is not possible for the water to come up until his house will float away like an ark, that he may get rid of living in a place where the nights are so dark and wet that he cannot sleep for thinking of them.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe