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Afterward he sang a song about it, thus: "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass, have I slain a thousand men." After this Samson went down to the chief city of the Philistines, which was named Gaza. It was a large city; and like all large cities, was surrounded with a high wall.
One of our guides to the village wore, as an armlet, the jawbone of a man from the mainland he had killed and eaten; others strutted about with human bones dangling from their hair, and about their necks. It is only the village Tepauri on the mainland with which they are unfriendly. We returned to the boat, and sailed along the coast.
The disease is common in cattle and usually affects the bones and soft parts of the head. In the United States, where the disease is known as "lumpy jaw" the jawbone is commonly affected. In European countries the disease frequently involves the tongue, and the term "wooden tongue" is applied to it. The disease may affect regions of the body other than the head.
He stooped and picked one up, but dropped it immediately, as if it burnt him. It was the lower jawbone of a human being. "Great God!" he gasped. "What is the meaning of this?" "It means," said Whitson, "that we are in a nest of bloody cannibals."
The jawbone is hard and heavy; the cheekbone emergent: between the two the flesh is hollowed, not so much with the emaciation of monastic vigils as with the athletic exercise of wrestlings in the throes of prophecy. The face, on the whole, is ugly, but not repellent; and, in spite of its great strength, it shows signs of feminine sensibility.
They found sharks' teeth, the edges still sharply serrated, firmly set in pieces of the jawbone, whales' teeth, vertebrae of various species, fragments of bone, great and small, several species of shell-fish, among which chiefly abounded a kind called quahaug, and many nondescript fragments, not easily classified.
Samson talked him down in two rounds, just as he did the other Philistines in the early days on earth." I laughed. "You're slightly off there," I said. "That was a stand-up-and-be-knocked-down fight, wasn't it? He used the jawbone of an ass?" "Very true," observed Boswell, "but it is evident that it is you who are slightly off. You haven't kept up with the higher criticism.
I knew at once that something was wrong, as, with the bit I had in his mouth, I ought to have had the power to have broken his jawbone. I stooped forward to ascertain the cause; the loose curb dangling at the side of his head gave a satisfactory explanation.
Ravens bring a prophet sandwiches, another prophet besieges a tile, an axe swims on the water, a man slays a thousand men in battle with the jawbone of a donkey, an ass speaks, and a whale swallows and vomits a man. Had these pious puerilities occurred in any other book, they would have been laughed to scorn; but being in the Bible, they must be credited on pain of eternal damnation.
On Sunday afternoons colliers and potters, gathered round the jawbone of a whale which then stood as a natural curiosity on the waste space near the corn-mill, would discuss the fray, and make bets for next Sunday, while the exhausted dogs licked their wounds, or died.
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