Steill's juvenile cyclopedia, or Pictorial spelling and reading assistant1845 - 236 Seiten |
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... called Termites . Some of these have twenty floors , besides passages . SOLOMON tells the idle and thoughtless to learn wisdom from this wonderful crea- ture : - " Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise ; " and he ...
... called Termites . Some of these have twenty floors , besides passages . SOLOMON tells the idle and thoughtless to learn wisdom from this wonderful crea- ture : - " Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise ; " and he ...
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... called birds of prey ; as the eagle , the vulture , the kite , and the hawk . These are fierce and cruel ; feeding chiefly upon the raw flesh of animals . They have , therefore , bills of great strength , sharp and pointed , some of ...
... called birds of prey ; as the eagle , the vulture , the kite , and the hawk . These are fierce and cruel ; feeding chiefly upon the raw flesh of animals . They have , therefore , bills of great strength , sharp and pointed , some of ...
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... called Gypsies go with their wares , their furniture , and their children , from place to place . How very different from those light spring carriages , in which we now see persons travelling at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour ...
... called Gypsies go with their wares , their furniture , and their children , from place to place . How very different from those light spring carriages , in which we now see persons travelling at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour ...
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... called , " web - footed ; " the bones of their toes being connected by a thick skin , which enables them to use their feet as paddles or oars when they are swimming . Those birds which wade in the water , or stand in the mud , have long ...
... called , " web - footed ; " the bones of their toes being connected by a thick skin , which enables them to use their feet as paddles or oars when they are swimming . Those birds which wade in the water , or stand in the mud , have long ...
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... called dove - cotes . Near one of the cities in Persia , called Isphahan , there are a great many of these ; they are large round towers , with little windows at the top , through which the pigeons , or doves , descend ; and the insides ...
... called dove - cotes . Near one of the cities in Persia , called Isphahan , there are a great many of these ; they are large round towers , with little windows at the top , through which the pigeons , or doves , descend ; and the insides ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
a. v. to put ACCENTED acid alkali ancient animal appearance beast become bird bird of prey bitumen blood body bones book of Esther called carbon carbonic acid cause chiefly Chinese architecture chyme colour corn covered degrees disease dried earth eggs Egypt fastened feet fermentation fish flesh fluid force fruit hair head heat honour horn horse insect instrument iron isinglass Jews kind king land light lime liquid living LORD means medicine melted ment metal mineral Mordecai motion musical MUSK Ox obtained ornament oxygen pass Persia person piece plant prey produced purpose resin rocks round salt SECOND shape shell ship skin soft solid species stone strong substance surface Syria term applied thick thin thing tion tree turpentine vapour various vegetable vessel weight wind wood words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 65 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Seite 147 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Seite 100 - Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
Seite 75 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Seite 14 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Seite 84 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Seite 107 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Seite 63 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Seite 101 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 84 - Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate : let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.