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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... SWALLOW CHAPTER XIV – THE PEACOCK CHAPTER XV – THE STORK CHAPTER XVI – THE RAVEN CHAPTER XVII – THE PELICAN CHAPTER XVIII THE PIGEON CHAPTER XIX – THE CRANE CHAPTER XX – THE OWLS CHAPTER I – THE TIME IN order to appreciate clearly.
... swallow observe the time of their coming." It must have been the remembrance of myriads of birds, massed in migration, which was in the mind of Isaiah when he wrote that beautiful and poetic line, "As birds flying, so will the Lord of ...
... swallows swarmed under the eaves. Many of these small gardens must have been very beautiful. From the necessity of being enclosed within walls arose the custom in Palestine of spending much time upon the housetops. The elevation ...
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