Birds of the BibleJennings and Graham, 1916 - 467 páginas |
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... picture to an enslaved and superstitious people the story of the beginning of the world . Again , Moses and his contemporaries in the compilation of the Bible wrote from their personal knowledge and the traditions of their ancestors ...
... picture to an enslaved and superstitious people the story of the beginning of the world . Again , Moses and his contemporaries in the compilation of the Bible wrote from their personal knowledge and the traditions of their ancestors ...
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... picture of the distress which should fall upon the Israelites for their many sins , one naturally thinks of a bird of swift flight , as the swallow . The origin of the oft - quoted phrase , " A little bird told me , " can be found in ...
... picture of the distress which should fall upon the Israelites for their many sins , one naturally thinks of a bird of swift flight , as the swallow . The origin of the oft - quoted phrase , " A little bird told me , " can be found in ...
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... picture of the happy home - life of a pair of 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 ...
... picture of the happy home - life of a pair of 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 ...
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... pictures in the world has birds as its subject . It is a fragment of a fresco taken from a tomb at Maydoon , and now in the museum at Cairo . This picture was painted three thousand years before Christ and near two thousand years before ...
... pictures in the world has birds as its subject . It is a fragment of a fresco taken from a tomb at Maydoon , and now in the museum at Cairo . This picture was painted three thousand years before Christ and near two thousand years before ...
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... pictures ever made with accuracy were done with a camera , which truly reproduces life . The records of Moses began four thousand years before Christ , and in our day nineteen hundred and nine years afterward - five thousand nine ...
... pictures ever made with accuracy were done with a camera , which truly reproduces life . The records of Moses began four thousand years before Christ , and in our day nineteen hundred and nine years afterward - five thousand nine ...
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Almighty animals appearance Aristophanes Aristotle beasts beautiful Bible lands Bible writers bittern brooding cedar chapter chickens cloud colour cormorant crane creatures cried David desert doubt doves eagle earth Edom eggs Egypt exquisite eyes feathers feet fish flight flocks fowl Galilee GENE STRATTON-PORTER Gennesaret habit hath heaven Hebrew herons Holy Land Isaiah Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jordan jungle fowl knew lapwing Lebanon little owl living Lord mate mentioned Moab Moses mountains natural history nest night hawk numbers old version ostrich Palestine partridge peafowl pelican picture pigeons plains Pliny poet poetic prey quail Ralph Connor raven recorded Rex Beach rivers rock sands snare Solomon song sparrows species spices stork swallow tail temple thee things thou thought to-day trees unto valleys voice vulture wild wilderness wings wonderful wrote young