Birds of the BibleJennings and Graham, 1916 - 467 páginas |
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... brooding birds in mind when , in recounting the days of his prosperity , he cried : " Then I said I shall die in my nest , And I shall multiply my days as the sand . " A proverb in Ecclesiastes contains these lines : " Birds will resort ...
... brooding birds in mind when , in recounting the days of his prosperity , he cried : " Then I said I shall die in my nest , And I shall multiply my days as the sand . " A proverb in Ecclesiastes contains these lines : " Birds will resort ...
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... brooding rails nested in silence , and the bitterns boomed in the night watches . Frogs croaked along the shores , the crocodile and alligator splashed in the water , and the rhinoceros raised from its wallow and waddled off across ...
... brooding rails nested in silence , and the bitterns boomed in the night watches . Frogs croaked along the shores , the crocodile and alligator splashed in the water , and the rhinoceros raised from its wallow and waddled off across ...
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... brooding mother could they find , search as they might . For these birds had followed the seacoast and had come down from Greece to perplex these people also . Their Grecian name , alceon , as we translate halcyon , was brought with ...
... brooding mother could they find , search as they might . For these birds had followed the seacoast and had come down from Greece to perplex these people also . Their Grecian name , alceon , as we translate halcyon , was brought with ...
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... brooding time they have large families , and many of the seeds they gather are carried to their young . As Jesus sat on the ship and talked to the people on the shore in those simple parables , I think His eyes were ranging along the ...
... brooding time they have large families , and many of the seeds they gather are carried to their young . As Jesus sat on the ship and talked to the people on the shore in those simple parables , I think His eyes were ranging along the ...
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... brooding , a fearlessness in defending their young , an attachment to their frail homes , and a devotion to each other that marks them as the especial property of the poets . There is in bird - life a constant appeal to our affection ...
... brooding , a fearlessness in defending their young , an attachment to their frail homes , and a devotion to each other that marks them as the especial property of the poets . There is in bird - life a constant appeal to our affection ...
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