The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... brooding birds in mind when, in recounting the days of his prosperity, he cried: Then I said I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand." A proverb in Ecclesiastes contains these lines: "Birds will resort unto ...
... brooding rails nested in silence, and the bitterns boomed in the night watches. Frogs croaked along the shores, the crocodile and alligator splashed in the water, and the rhinoceros raised from its wallow and waddled off across country ...
... brooding time they have large families, and many of the seeds they gather are carried to their young. As Jesus sat on the ship and talked to the people on the shore in those simple parables, I think His eyes were ranging along the coast ...
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