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... winter . Protected from the snow by their warm coats , they just roll in under a fallen spruce when food gets short , pulling a few boughs over themselves , as often as they take the trouble to search out a cave . They choose the north ...
... winter . Protected from the snow by their warm coats , they just roll in under a fallen spruce when food gets short , pulling a few boughs over themselves , as often as they take the trouble to search out a cave . They choose the north ...
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... winter , when the bees would be in hibernation , then went with a crosscut saw and cut the tree down , but they discovered that in the meantime mice had moved in and eaten all the loot — the honey and the combs , even the bees . Doyle ...
... winter , when the bees would be in hibernation , then went with a crosscut saw and cut the tree down , but they discovered that in the meantime mice had moved in and eaten all the loot — the honey and the combs , even the bees . Doyle ...
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... winter - starved or wolf- killed deer , well picked and scattered , and an area with many elk antlers strewn on the ground where the herds had wintered safely , dropping their antlers but not their bones . Here , much higher up , in the ...
... winter - starved or wolf- killed deer , well picked and scattered , and an area with many elk antlers strewn on the ground where the herds had wintered safely , dropping their antlers but not their bones . Here , much higher up , in the ...
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... winter , which kept it fairly free of snow . The ranger at the lake had told me it served as a wintering ground for a few bighorn sheep and for a band of mountain goats , three of which were in sight . As I approached labori- ously ...
... winter , which kept it fairly free of snow . The ranger at the lake had told me it served as a wintering ground for a few bighorn sheep and for a band of mountain goats , three of which were in sight . As I approached labori- ously ...
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... winter stronghold . A bold , thriving family of pack rats emerged to observe me . They lived mainly on the nutritives in the droppings , and were used to the goats ' toler- ance ; they seemed astonished when I tossed a stone . I kept ...
... winter stronghold . A bold , thriving family of pack rats emerged to observe me . They lived mainly on the nutritives in the droppings , and were used to the goats ' toler- ance ; they seemed astonished when I tossed a stone . I kept ...
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Page 186 - But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18.
Page 191 - 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 : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 189 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 188 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 462 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 460 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 185 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Page 443 - ... would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism and perhaps even extinction of the species.
Page 191 - Then the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid...
Page 186 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : but thou shalt utterly destroy them...