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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... exquisitely. He reporteth, that never man was known to see him feeding; that in Arabia he is held a sacred bird, dedicated unto the sun; that he liveth six hundred and sixty years; and when he groweth old, and begins to decay, he builds ...
... and in great numbers the exquisite little sunbird darted among sweet flowering spicebushes. One readily can see how the writers of the Bible in recording life as they lived it under those geographical conditions, would give to.
... exquisite purple bloom. Moses found it suitable for worship, for he commanded, "And ye shall take you on the first the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and the willows of the brook; and ye ...
... exquisite large white and yellow flowers of great fragrance, grew near Engedi by the Dead Sea. Then, as now, mustard drifted from cultivated places and spread everywhere in great beds of waving yellow. It was the Master Himself who said ...
... exquisite, not flowering like our small and almost universally white and palepink blossoms, but bearing large clusters of strong color and almost sickening sweetness. Almond branches in bloom were carried to the temples for decoration ...