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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... wilderness. Rank vegetation crept everywhere after moisture. There were rushes, watergrasses, and flags growing all along the rivers and around the lakes. The glittering black birds rocked on the sunlit rushes; among them the herons ...
... wilderness and scattered all over the face of the country grew at least five acornbearing oaks, all of lower habit and more gnarled, twisted, and ragged branching than ours. Hosea wrote: "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains ...
... wilderness the cedar, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together: that they may see, and know 7, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of ...
... wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe at the fig tree." Solomon said, "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell." It was Samuel who recorded of Abigail, of.
... wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy. The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with corn; They shout for joy, they also sing." Flax was cultivated for cloth; lentils were cut for food for stock ...