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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... mountains, and the eternal sifting that we poetically call "star dust." At first thought this would seem to form no considerable portion of the earth's surface, but when we remember that from the deck of a vessel sailing the ocean for a ...
... mountains: And the wild beasts of the field are mine." It was David who, in writing of the goodness of the Almighty to the Israelites, recorded that He rained flesh upon them also as dust, And feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea ...
... mountains; and the beasts of the earth: and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them." Hosea said, "As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird." And because he was ...
... mountains when he said to the Kenites: "Strong is thy dwelling place, And thou puttest thy nest in a rock." Job had the picture of the happy homelife of a pair of brooding birds in mind when, in recounting the days of his prosperity, he ...
... mountainous strip; then the valley of the Jordan, through which flowed the sacred river in which Jesus was baptized; another strip of hills and mountains; and Syria adjoining, which shortly stretched away into desert. At the southeast ...