 | California. State Board of Horticulture - 1900 - 272 sivua
...is written — "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four, which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent...the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maid."— PROVERBS. To these I would add the way of trade on the sea, for there appears to be no known... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1901 - 392 sivua
...all others : — There be three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not : The way of an Eagle in the air ; The way of a Serpent...the midst of the sea; And the way of a Man with a Maid. Of course the wise men heap scorn upon the sluggard : who buries his hand in the dish, too lazy... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 370 sivua
...sayeth 'enough.' "There be three things which are too wonderful for me ; yea, four which I know not. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent...the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. The ants... | |
 | RICHARD G. MOULTON - 1901 - 432 sivua
...all others : — There be three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: The way of an Eagle in the air; The way of a Serpent...the midst of the sea; And the way of a Man with a Maid. Of course the wise men heap scorn upon the sluggard: who buries his hand in the dish, too lazy... | |
 | W. D. Gann - 1987 - 432 sivua
...30:18 and 19: "There be three things which are too wonderful for me. Yea, four which I know not, — the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of a sea, and the way of a man with a maid." Walter said, "The last one is too much for me and I would... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 sivua
...(Proverbs 30:18-19): "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of man with a maid." But Bloom has in mind an anonymous late-nineteenth-century pornographic novel, The... | |
 | William Sherwood Fox - 1953 - 270 sivua
...Proverbs could have written of The Bruce: "There are three things which are too wonderful for me ... the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea." All these may be seen by one who goes about The Bruce with open eyes. But this land is above all a... | |
 | Thomas Fall - 1993 - 322 sivua
...creek until he said, " There be three things which are too wonderful for me; yea four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.' The Proverbs of Solomon." Again she said, "I do not understand." But again she vaguely did.... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1993 - 596 sivua
...Solomon The reference is to Proverbs 30: 18-19. Th fi 'three things which are too wonderful for me' are 'the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent...rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea.' 33 (p. 158) myrmidons literally, the race of warriors who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War: here,... | |
 | Theresa King - 1994 - 276 sivua
...tingled and ears that heard. ("There are three things too wonderful for me, yea, four that I know not of: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.") It was amazing that the eyes in me could commune with a star, could notice its glow against... | |
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The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 
