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Page 84
... Crocodile shedding tears , and many will doubtless wonder how weeping has become associated with such a vicious and dangerous reptile as the crocodile . As we understand the term now , " crocodile tears mean hypocritical lamenta- tions ...
... Crocodile shedding tears , and many will doubtless wonder how weeping has become associated with such a vicious and dangerous reptile as the crocodile . As we understand the term now , " crocodile tears mean hypocritical lamenta- tions ...
Page 85
... Crocodiles wept tears for thee ; The woodbine and eglatere Drip sweeter dews than traitor's tear . Let them rave . " This idea of the weeping crocodile , which is now so effectively used to describe humbug and hypocrisy , is founded on ...
... Crocodiles wept tears for thee ; The woodbine and eglatere Drip sweeter dews than traitor's tear . Let them rave . " This idea of the weeping crocodile , which is now so effectively used to describe humbug and hypocrisy , is founded on ...
Page 86
... crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers . " This extraordinary fabrication , which bears on the very face of it the imprint of a mere traveller's yarn , was received by the credulous people of those days with the utmost ...
... crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers . " This extraordinary fabrication , which bears on the very face of it the imprint of a mere traveller's yarn , was received by the credulous people of those days with the utmost ...
Page 172
... crocodile , only that it is but three or four feet long , and lives wholly on the land . As it is exceeding fond of the milk of ewes and she - goats , it makes use of a remarkable expedient . It twists its long tail round the leg of the ...
... crocodile , only that it is but three or four feet long , and lives wholly on the land . As it is exceeding fond of the milk of ewes and she - goats , it makes use of a remarkable expedient . It twists its long tail round the leg of the ...
Page 207
... Crocodile , 84 Crossbill , 134 Crow , 19 JACKAL , 193 Jackdaw , 23 KINGFISHER , 140 LADYBIRD , 175 Cuckoo , 53 DAW , 24 Death - watch , 36 Death's - head moth , 168 Dog , 8 , 38 Donkey , 176 Dragon , 190 Lamia , 204 Lapwing , 31 Lilith ...
... Crocodile , 84 Crossbill , 134 Crow , 19 JACKAL , 193 Jackdaw , 23 KINGFISHER , 140 LADYBIRD , 175 Cuckoo , 53 DAW , 24 Death - watch , 36 Death's - head moth , 168 Dog , 8 , 38 Donkey , 176 Dragon , 190 Lamia , 204 Lapwing , 31 Lilith ...
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Page 137 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 55 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 139 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 57 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 124 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream. And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Page 61 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 192 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Page 160 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Page 197 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 89 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...