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... grows in arid land , and attains to the height of sixteen feet . Vahl talks of it as a shrub of six feet high ; but Schaw , in his account of African trees , says that it is something between a tree and a shrub . The tree is called ARAR ...
... grows in arid land , and attains to the height of sixteen feet . Vahl talks of it as a shrub of six feet high ; but Schaw , in his account of African trees , says that it is something between a tree and a shrub . The tree is called ARAR ...
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... grow . An English officer , belonging to the Duke of Wellington's army in Spain , having occasion to be on the western side of the lower range of Mount Atlas in search of a particular breed of horses , observed that the pines * of the ...
... grow . An English officer , belonging to the Duke of Wellington's army in Spain , having occasion to be on the western side of the lower range of Mount Atlas in search of a particular breed of horses , observed that the pines * of the ...
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... grow in desert sandy places , where no water is . They are , nevertheless , the sign of refreshment to the traveller ; for their long thick leaves are each gathered round the stem , forming a cup , which collects the rain and dew in ...
... grow in desert sandy places , where no water is . They are , nevertheless , the sign of refreshment to the traveller ; for their long thick leaves are each gathered round the stem , forming a cup , which collects the rain and dew in ...
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... grows in plenty in the neighbour- hood of Mecca ; and every man who has performed his pilgrimage would fain hang a Mitre Aloe over his door as a proof that he had done so , even without the pre- valent notion that such Aloes bring good ...
... grows in plenty in the neighbour- hood of Mecca ; and every man who has performed his pilgrimage would fain hang a Mitre Aloe over his door as a proof that he had done so , even without the pre- valent notion that such Aloes bring good ...
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... grows wild in Egypt , in Syria , Palestine , and all parts of the Levant ; but the Romans considered the Egyptian and Cretan Anise to be the best , espe- cially for medicinal purposes . We look upon the Anise seed of Malta as equally ...
... grows wild in Egypt , in Syria , Palestine , and all parts of the Levant ; but the Romans considered the Egyptian and Cretan Anise to be the best , espe- cially for medicinal purposes . We look upon the Anise seed of Malta as equally ...
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Alhagi ancient appears Apple Arabia Arabs Balsam bark Barley Bdellium beautiful Bible Botany branches bread Calamus called Cassia Cassia Fistula Cedar Celsius Chron citron class and order colour common corn cultivated Date Palm DECANDRIA Desert East Egypt Egyptian Esdras Ezekiel favour flowers fragrant Frankincense fruit GALBANUM garden grapes Grass Greek grows Hasselquist Hebrew holy Hosea Hyssop India Isaiah Israel Jerusalem Jews Judea Juniper kind Kings Ladanum land Laurus leaves Lebanon Levant linen Linnæan class Lord Manna medicine mentioned modern MONOGYNIA Mulberry myrrh Myrtle native Natural order nuts Olive Palestine Palm passages perfume Pine plant Pliny POLYANDRIA Pomegranate precious prophet Psalm Reed root says Scripture seed shrub Song of Solomon species Spikenard Styrax sweet Syria Syria and Palestine tabernacle Temple Terebinth texts Thorn Tiel translation travellers tree TRIANDRIA Vine Wheat wild Willow wine wood word xxvii
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Page 244 - I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Page 167 - Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together, and the other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre.
Page 514 - 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.
Page 71 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore.
Page 96 - For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up ; and he shall be brought low...
Page 180 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
Page 189 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 513 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 401 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Page 142 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.