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The word "mosaic" in literature has been employed with a rich variety of meanings and connotations. In some texts, it refers directly to the Biblical accounts and religious laws, evoking the ancient Mosaic tradition that underpins Judeo-Christian thought, as seen in references to the Mosaic account of creation and the Mosaic law itself ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). In other works, "mosaic" serves as a metaphor for composite beauty and complexity—a collection of disparate yet interconnected parts that together create a unified whole. This imagery appears when describing vivid scenes or patterns in art and daily life, from the fluid movements of characters ([6]) and social landscapes configured as disparate, segregated "little worlds" ([7]), to the physical beauty of ornate mosaic floors, tables, and portraits in architecture and decorative arts ([8], [9], [10]). Additionally, the term is utilized in technical or abstract settings, suggesting layered, structured systems in coding and design ([11]). Through these diverse applications, "mosaic" encapsulates the interplay of the sacred and the aesthetic, the literal and the metaphorical, highlighting the enduring literary appeal of its multifaceted imagery.
  1. 36 Near three thousand years passed away from the Mosaic account of the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king.
    — from Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  2. At least it must be so for the whole space of the succeeding year, if I be married; as yesterday, by the Mosaic law, you evidenced.
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
  3. ǽw ( ǽ ), law, divine law, the Mosaic law, marriage; Goth.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  4. It is from the Talmud, not from the Mosaic law, that the inhuman methods of Jewish slaughtering are derived.
    — from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster
  5. 559 The Mosaic law.
    — from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
  6. (Twining, receding, with interchanging hands the night hours link each each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  7. The processes of segregation establish moral distances which make the city a mosaic of little worlds which touch but do not interpenetrate.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  8. And let this be enough to have said of Gaddo Gaddi with regard to work in mosaic.
    — from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) by Giorgio Vasari
  9. Then he went on through richly-furnished chambers, over mosaic floors, amid gorgeous pictures.
    — from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen
  10. "But I believe, all the same, that they've got some lovely things; why, they must have that famous mosaic table on which the Treaty of...
    — from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  11. It was designed for the encoding of alphanumeric, alpha-mosaic, alpha-geometric and alpha-photographic constructs.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno

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