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... occurs at Isaiah xxxiv . 14 , and the Vulgate renders it by lamia . The medieval rabbi David Kimchi explains it to be an animal crying by night or a bird flying by night . Buxtorf renders it " Strix , avis nocturna querula et horrenda ...
... occurs at Isaiah xxxiv . 14 , and the Vulgate renders it by lamia . The medieval rabbi David Kimchi explains it to be an animal crying by night or a bird flying by night . Buxtorf renders it " Strix , avis nocturna querula et horrenda ...
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... occurs in Domesday , and is explained by Kelham in his Domesday Book Illustrated as " reward , riches , treasure , or m Del Rio ( lib . iii . p . i . q . ii . ) quotes briefly from Pedro Chieza ( Descript . Indiæ , p . ii . c . 196 ) ...
... occurs in Domesday , and is explained by Kelham in his Domesday Book Illustrated as " reward , riches , treasure , or m Del Rio ( lib . iii . p . i . q . ii . ) quotes briefly from Pedro Chieza ( Descript . Indiæ , p . ii . c . 196 ) ...
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... occurs the proverb , " There's a hilli again a stack all Craven through . Equivalent to Every bean hath its black ( Higson's MSS . Col. , 172 ) . " The proverb is given identically in the second edition , 1882. If any one has noticed ...
... occurs the proverb , " There's a hilli again a stack all Craven through . Equivalent to Every bean hath its black ( Higson's MSS . Col. , 172 ) . " The proverb is given identically in the second edition , 1882. If any one has noticed ...
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... occurs lapy - beard : — Fra . What I know a number , By the sole warrant of a lapy - beard , A raine beate plume ... occur elsewhere ? Later on in the same play ( p . 272 ) we have the line , " His face looks like the head of a taber ...
... occurs lapy - beard : — Fra . What I know a number , By the sole warrant of a lapy - beard , A raine beate plume ... occur elsewhere ? Later on in the same play ( p . 272 ) we have the line , " His face looks like the head of a taber ...
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... occurs for it in our Authorized Version . It occurs again in the phrases " a God's name " often in Shakespeare , and in " a this fashion " ( Hamlet , V. i . 218 ) . Cambridge . WALTER W. SKEAT . WARINE WOSE ( 6th S. viii . 515 ) .- Wose ...
... occurs for it in our Authorized Version . It occurs again in the phrases " a God's name " often in Shakespeare , and in " a this fashion " ( Hamlet , V. i . 218 ) . Cambridge . WALTER W. SKEAT . WARINE WOSE ( 6th S. viii . 515 ) .- Wose ...
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