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wilderness

I) - remaining hidden in the wilderness 1260 days.

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I) - remaining hidden in the wilderness 1260 days.

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The battle of the Wilderness (q.v.) went on for two days, with little advantage to either side.

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So long as the intervening territory was a wilderness no effort was made to define the boundary line.

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His African experiences suggested The African Colony (1903), A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), and Prester John (1910).

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His African experiences suggested The African Colony (1903), A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), and Prester John (1910).

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The Hebrews had already possessed a tent-temple and oracle of this kind in the wilderness (Exod.

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She talked to Dean as if any fool out here in the wilderness should be fully versed in everyone else's activity.

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Once indeed we find him in the wilderness of Paran 1 (Sam.

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Farther east no part of Asia has been brought under more careful investigation than the hydrography of the strange mountain wilderness that divides Tibet and Burma from China.

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If we could come back to the Bible and use biblical terms only, as Cyril of Jerusalem wished in his early days, we know from experience that the old errors would reappear in the form of new questions, and that we should have to pass through the dreary wilderness of controversy from implicit to explicit dogma, from " I believe that Jesus is the Lord " to the confession that the Only Begotten Son is " of one substance with the Father."

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Here also in the wilderness of Shur, and possibly at En-mishpat (well of judgment, i.e.

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Clowes; The Rough Riders (1899); Oliver Cromwell (1901); the following works on hunting and natural history, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1886), Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (1888), The Wilderness Hunter (1893), Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Plains (1899; a republication of Hinting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter), The Deer Family (1902), with other authors, and African Game Trails (1910); and the essays, American Ideals (2 vols., 1897) and The Strenuous Life (1900); and State Papers and Addresses (1905) and African and European Addresses (1910).

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But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest.

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As the mountains of Valencia and Catalonia effectually bar out the fertilizing moisture of the sea-winds, much of the province is a sheer wilderness, stony, ash-coloured, scarred with dry watercourses, and destitute of any vegetation except thin grass and heaths.

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Others were "Elijah in the Wilderness" (1879), "Elisha raising the Son of the Shunammite" (1881) and a design intended for the decoration of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, "And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it" (1892), now in the Tate Gallery, and the terrible "Rizpah" of 1893.

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His monumental Vergleichende Geographie, which was to have made the whole world its theme, died out in a wilderness of detail in twenty-one volumes before it had covered more of the earth's surface than Asia and a portion of Africa.

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His monumental Vergleichende Geographie, which was to have made the whole world its theme, died out in a wilderness of detail in twenty-one volumes before it had covered more of the earth's surface than Asia and a portion of Africa.

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Again, besides narrating the Temptation in the Wilderness and the Agony in the Garden, this evangelist gives a saying which implies that Jesus had undergone many temptations, or rather a life of temptation (xxii.

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So that was where her father had found someone so familiar with the wilderness on such short notice.

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