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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... songs were one thousand five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things and of fishes." Job, in ...
... songs of the birds that they constructed rude cages of peeled willow wands and confined beautiful feathered creatures for pets. Job inquired: Wilt thou play with him as a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?" Jeremiah said, "As ...
... song of "Cheer up! Cheer up!" it should be added to the symbols of the Red Cross Society. No man knew what it meant to live upon the land he owned and cultivate his crops in peace. Wild tribes from the Syrian desert constantly ravaged ...
... songs of the field and garden birds; to breathe the perfumed air rising all around them; and to revel in the glory of color, surpassed nowhere on earth. Solomon sang a musical, spicy song of such gardens as these: ' Thy shoots.
Gene Stratton-Porter. spicy song of such gardens as these: ' Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, With precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants, Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, Myrrh ...