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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... thou play with him as a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?" Jeremiah said, "As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit." Jesus referred to the sale of sparrows, which seemed to have been a common and ...
... thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger, Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth, Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art ...
... thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you." This tree is still called "sycamenea" in Greece, and is a mulberry, which grows commonly both black and white. The sycamore mentioned is a relative of ...
... Thou art a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind, and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out." Again, he said, "My beloved is unto me as ...
... Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; the river of God is full of water: Thou providest them corn, when Thou hast so prepared the earth. Thou waterest her furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof; ...