The Hebrew word "shaphoth," which is translated as cheese, derives its origin from a root signifying to scrape.
The colour of this bird is a dark blue, whence it derivesits popular name.
Change of attitude is but little use, and the wretched traveller derives but scant comfort from the advice of his guide, who tells him to allow his body to swing freely, and that in a short time he will become used to it.
It derives its name of Wind-hover from its remarkable habit of hovering, head to windward, over some spot for many minutes together.
When young, as is the case with many creatures, birds as well as mammals, the stripes from which it derives its name are much more strongly marked than in the adult specimen.
It inhabits many parts of Africa and Asia, and in those portions of the country which are untenanted by mankind, it derives all its sustenance from the herb-eating animals of the same tracts.
It derives its popular name from the rich glossy plumage, which shines with a metallic or rather a silken lustre that is singularly beautiful in life, and is with great difficulty preserved in stuffed specimens.
This Fish is found in the Mediterranean, and derives its name from the singular mode in which the eyes are set in the head, so that it looks upwards instead of sideways.
The Onycha is the operculum of one of the Strombi or Wing-shells, and derives its name from the resemblance which it bears in those shells to a nail or claw.
From the commencement of the war to the month of April, 1796, the gross produce had increased by nearly one sixth of the whole sum which the state now derives from that fund.
Sempringham again in Lincolnshire, whence he derives Sempringas, I find to have been Sempingaham, and so used already for Sempingas.
In the first place, the worldly man derives a more intense physical enjoyment from this world's goods, than does the child of God.
In the second place, the worldly man derives more enjoyment from sin, and suffers less from it, in this life, than does the child of God.
For the first of these duties, it is enough to recall how much all subsequent prophecy derives from Hosea.
There is no motion of the heart which more clearly derives its validity from its personal character.
Indeed in a further passage Ragon plainly indicates this fact: Every generous reform, every social benefit derives from it, and if these survive it is because Masonry lends them its support.
Co-Masonry derives from the Grand Orient of France, an illegitimate body according to English ruling.
Below the heights from whence this sheet of water derives its name, the well-known Rapids of St. Anne's discharge the main stream into the waters of the St. Lawrence.
If there is one truth that has been unmistakably developed by the war, it is the controlling moral power and sanction which a free government derives from woman.
Many capitalists, even in Italy, inspire their Press to state that Germany derives an advantage from the depreciation of her mark, or, in other words, is content with its low level.
Yet, all the same, her attempt derives from a feeling that is not only justifiable but just.
Rather than coming from the economic disorder, it derives from a malady of the temperament.
The brine of the ocean is the ley of the earth," he says; "from it the sea derives dynamical powers, and its currents their main strength.
From it the sea derives dynamical power, and its currents their main strength.
Although the sea anemone is said to be delicate eating, man derives very little benefit from them in that respect.
NOTE 3] The Great Kaan derives a very large revenue from the duties paid in this city and haven; for you must know that on all the merchandize imported, including precious stones and pearls, he levies a duty of ten per cent.
Both names are misleading, for the thing has nought to do either with aloes or eagles; though good Bishop Pallegoix derives the latter name from the wood being speckled like an eagle's plumage.
The Coromandel coast derives its chief supply of rain from the north-east monsoon, beginning in October, whereas both eastern and western India have theirs from the south-west monsoon, between June and September.
The former supposition, however, derives some plausibility from the fact that, as several critics have pointed out, the allusions to church matters in Gammer Gurtons Nedle seem to indicate a pre-Elizabethan date for its composition.
For the object of judicial judgment is right; from which also it derivesits name.
From this form is derived fluency of words; from it also the combination and rhythm of sentences derives a freer licence.
Its position is commanding, and derives shelter from the hills behind; and from the terraces overlooking the town, the views were fine.
This work derives some special interest, from the circumstance that it was originally intended for the so-called 'Speaker's Commentary.
It cannot, however, reach France without crossing Spain and the lofty range of the Pyrenees, and the effect of these cold mountains in reducing its temperature is so great that the former country derives but little warmth from it.
It is by the harmonious working of this element, in a normal conjunction with the formal principle which sprung out of it, and which derives from it a solid application--viz.
An earl derives his title from the earldorman of the Anglo-Saxons, and the earle of the Danes.
It derives its name from the wonderful blue reflection of the sun’s rays through the water, which gives the interior its marvelous beauty and majesty.
The Giants’ Causeway derivesits name from the legend that it was built by giants as a road which was to stretch across the sea to Scotland.
Athens was joined by most of the states in Central and Northern Greece; and the war derives its name from Lamia in Thessaly, where Antipater, after being defeated by the confederates, was besieged for some months.
Constantine the Great, from whom it derives its name, on a site partly occupied by the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium.
Congress derives its power to suppress this actual insurrection, from the same source whence it derived its power to suppress the same acts in the case supposed.
The hill from which the river derives its name is a small, insignificant mound, and owes its importance to the flatness of the surrounding country.
The numerous ribs across the whorls are very prominent, and look like the steps of a ladder, whence it derives its name.
But in place of being round or oval, this shell is octagonal, from which peculiarity it derivesits name.
The Morality Play is merely a dramatized allegory, and derives its characters and its peculiar technique from the application of the dramatic method to the allegory, the favourite literary form of the middle ages.
The Story of Genesis and Exodus, the substance of which is taken from the Bible and Latin commentators, derives its metre chiefly from French.
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