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There cannot a rare one of either kind enter the walls of Palmyra, but he is straightway bought up for the service of Zenobia. The swiftest in the East are hers. 'T was my purpose, returning, to have drawn upon Hadad's beast the notice of the Queen. Doubtless I should have sold it to her, and two hundred aurelians is the very least I should have asked or taken for her.
But the influence of Assyria may be traced in Hadad's beard and in his horned head-dress, modelled on that worn by Babylonian and Assyrian gods as the symbol of divine power. See F. von Luschan, Sendschirli, I. , pp. 49 ff., pl. vi; and cf. Cooke, North Sem. Inscr., pp. 159 ff.
Mabel's queen. Hadad's a knave. He looks it! Keep smiling, Hadad, old top, and I'll let you forgive me. Rammy's the ten-spot tentative tenacious ten aces up his sleeve and packs a ten-ton wallop when you get him going. What's Narayan Singh? The deuce?" "The joker," answered Grim. "Are you in on this?" "Sahib, there was no need to ask. What your honor finds good enough your honor's order "
Hadad's first undertaking was to reduce the Moabites again under the sovereignty of Edom, but he had to desist, because he could not offer successful resistance to a newly chosen king of theirs, one of their own people, who enlisted the aid of their kinsmen the Ammonites. The allies commanded a great host, and Hadad was overwhelmed.
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