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From the scriptual account of these insects, one might be led to suspect, that in some climates they lay up a provision for the winter. Cels. The history of these has been lately well described in the Philosoph. Transactions, under the name of termes, or termites.
Guess we'd better leave him behind." "Seems to me," said Si, trying vaguely to recall his Scriptual readings, "that the Bible says some thing agin takin' a newly-married man right into battle just after he's married." He looked around again, saw Nate taking his place along with the other men selected, and called out: "Here, Nate, fall back to the company. You can't go along."
His eyes rested rather wearily on the slow, dull gleam of the Euphrates, as it wound past the deserted spaces where "the mighty city the astonishment of nations" had once stood, ... and poet though he was to the very core of his nature, he could see nothing poetical in these spectral mounds and stone heaps, save in the significant remembrance they offered of the old Scriptual prophecy "Babylon is fallen is fallen!
Summer, therefore, had connected itself with death, not merely as a mode of antagonism, but also as a phenomenon brought into intricate relations with death by scriptual scenery and events.
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