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... body , and ears of a remarkable length ; it is taller than the common sort , its skin smoother , and of a much darker colour . " The predilection for white asses is still preserved in certain parts of the East : Mr. Morier says , that ...
... body , and ears of a remarkable length ; it is taller than the common sort , its skin smoother , and of a much darker colour . " The predilection for white asses is still preserved in certain parts of the East : Mr. Morier says , that ...
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... body . " - Researches ii . 209 . The camel , though generally tractable , is by no means an amiable animal . At certain seasons indeed it is remarkably wayward , so that the people of Israel are compared to " a swift dromedary ...
... body . " - Researches ii . 209 . The camel , though generally tractable , is by no means an amiable animal . At certain seasons indeed it is remarkably wayward , so that the people of Israel are compared to " a swift dromedary ...
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... body long , and the legs slender and sinewy . " ( Nineveh and its Remains , ii . 359 , 360. ) The same writer having stated that " it has been doubted whether the breed , for which Mesopotamia and the • neighbouring deserts of Arabia ...
... body long , and the legs slender and sinewy . " ( Nineveh and its Remains , ii . 359 , 360. ) The same writer having stated that " it has been doubted whether the breed , for which Mesopotamia and the • neighbouring deserts of Arabia ...
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... , of portable dimensions , I shot him through the body , and carried him off . " - AINSWORTH'S Asia Minor , ii . 151 , 153 , 333 . Buckingham mentions that he made an excellent supper one evening 74 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY .
... , of portable dimensions , I shot him through the body , and carried him off . " - AINSWORTH'S Asia Minor , ii . 151 , 153 , 333 . Buckingham mentions that he made an excellent supper one evening 74 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY .
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... bodies and heads sit bats , swallows , and birds , and the cats also . " It is doubtful whether the wild or the domesticated cat is intended : from the context , we should be inclined to infer that it was the former . CHAMOIS . The ...
... bodies and heads sit bats , swallows , and birds , and the cats also . " It is doubtful whether the wild or the domesticated cat is intended : from the context , we should be inclined to infer that it was the former . CHAMOIS . The ...
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Página 13 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Página 58 - There were two men in one city ; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Página 173 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 298 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 302 - I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine...
Página 190 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in...
Página 152 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Página 107 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Página 128 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Página 130 - She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.