Bible Animals: Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scriptures from the Ape to the Coral |
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... feeding - How the Lämmergeier kills snakes and tortoises , and breaks marrow - bones - Mode of destroying the chamois and mountain sheep - Nest of the Lämmergeier . THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE , OR GIER - EAGLE . 333 The Râchâm or Gier - Eagle ...
... feeding - How the Lämmergeier kills snakes and tortoises , and breaks marrow - bones - Mode of destroying the chamois and mountain sheep - Nest of the Lämmergeier . THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE , OR GIER - EAGLE . 333 The Râchâm or Gier - Eagle ...
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... feeding and curious flight - The Hariers - Probable derivation of the name - Species of Hariers known to inhabit Palestine- Falconry apparently unknown to the ancient Jews . 364 • THE OWL . The words which have been translated as ...
... feeding and curious flight - The Hariers - Probable derivation of the name - Species of Hariers known to inhabit Palestine- Falconry apparently unknown to the ancient Jews . 364 • THE OWL . The words which have been translated as ...
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... feeding - Boldness of the bird - Deceptive appearance of . 377 its size · THE SWALLOW . Identification of the smaller birds - Oriental indifference to natural history - Use of collective terms - The Swallow - Signification of the word ...
... feeding - Boldness of the bird - Deceptive appearance of . 377 its size · THE SWALLOW . Identification of the smaller birds - Oriental indifference to natural history - Use of collective terms - The Swallow - Signification of the word ...
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... Feeding the young Ravens - Luis of Grenada's sermon -- The white Raven of ancient times - An old legend - Reference to the blackness of the Raven's plumage - Desert - loving habits of the Raven - Its mode of attacking the eye - Notions ...
... Feeding the young Ravens - Luis of Grenada's sermon -- The white Raven of ancient times - An old legend - Reference to the blackness of the Raven's plumage - Desert - loving habits of the Raven - Its mode of attacking the eye - Notions ...
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... feeding the young - Fables regarding the Pelican - Breeding - places of the bird - The object of its wide wings and large pouch - Colour of the Pelican 495 REPTILES . THE TORTOISE . Reptiles in general - Looseness CONTENTS . xxi.
... feeding the young - Fables regarding the Pelican - Breeding - places of the bird - The object of its wide wings and large pouch - Colour of the Pelican 495 REPTILES . THE TORTOISE . Reptiles in general - Looseness CONTENTS . xxi.
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allusion ancient animal antelope Aoudad Arab Authorized Version Bactrian Camel bats beasts bird Bittern Book of Job Camel cattle chariot colour cormorant creature Crocodile curious custom Deer Deut dogs eggs Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Vulture employed evidently example eyes familiar feed feet fish flesh flocks Gazelle goats ground habits head Hebrew word hedgehog herds hippopotamus Holy hoof horns horse hunters Hyæna inhabit insects Israel Israelites Jewish Bible Jews killed king land Leopard Lion Locusts Lord mentioned metaphor milk mode monkey Mule neck nest occurs Old Testament Ostrich oxen Palestine pass passage peculiar plentiful present day prey probably prophet Raven Reêm reference remarkable rendered reptile rock sacred scarcely Scriptures seen Septuagint serpent sheep shepherd signifies similar skin sometimes species spot swift tail thee thou translated tribe unto Vulture Wanderoo wild wings wolf writers young
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Page 506 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 26 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Page 576 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Page 282 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 250 - He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 423 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 351 - He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, he instructed him, * He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 400 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 578 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold : only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 640 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.