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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... DOVE CHAPTER VI THE EAGLE CHAPTER VII – THE SPARROW CHAPTER VIII – THE OSTRICH CHAPTER IX – THE COCK AND HEN CHAPTER X – THE HAWK CHAPTER XI – QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE CHAPTER XII – THE BITTERN CHAPTER XIII – THE SWALLOW CHAPTER XIV – THE ...
... constant practice; and it was He who entered the temple and "overthrew the seats of them that sold doves." Birds were so numerous in those lands in which Bible scenes were enacted that undoubtedly they were much tamer than those who.
... doves, or quails were taken from the nest, raised by hand, and made very tame. These were then hidden in cages of wands, and when their notes had attracted large numbers of their kind, they were skillfully dropped by arrows of concealed ...
... doves loved to nest in the protection of the prickly branches, and the young came forth safely in large broods. The bay tree mentioned by David, who said, "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay ...
... doves. The palms grew on the plains of Jericho, in the ravines along the Jordan, and around the Sea of Galilee, and are still growing at Beirut. Palms grow a tall stem from thirty to eighty feet, and a plume of feathery foliage at the ...