10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALFLIKE»
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The calflike beast introduced thered horse.The two images again have
something in common. Bloodissues forth from bothimages. The calf in
biblicaltimes was the sacrifice for sin. And without the shedding of blood there is
no remission of sins.
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Metaphysical Bible Dictionary
young bullock; calflike; round; rolling; a threshing drag; an oxcart; a war chariot. a
A king of Moab who, with the help of the Ammonites and the Amalekites,
overcame the Israelites and held them in subjection for some years; this was
because of ...
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The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges
especially prevalent in 3:15b-18.61 The name \bjy (3:12ba, 14, 15b, 17 [2x]), as
that of D'JWI JEh3 (3:8 [2x], 10 [2x]), may be a mocking appellative, "calflike,
bovine". It is reminiscent of ^?jy 'calf, often used to designate the idolatrous image
at ...
Robert H. O'Connell, 1996
"Yes, yes, Benye, you were wandering around the cows in pasture, you had a big
swollen belly and calflike eyes. Do you remember? Whenever a bull would lust
for a cow, you would wring your hands, and weep in pain, and start counting on ...
Barbara Black Koltuv, 1986
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The Bible's Prophets: An Introduction for Christians and Jews
Covering their “legs” or “feet” refers to their calflike feet, for exposing suchhooves
would remindGod of the blasphemy of the goldencalf(Exod 32:1ff.) (Midrash
Leviticus Rabbah 27.3,based on Ezek 1:7). Standingand praising Godis
thesolerole ...
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Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind
“What is more insipid and of a 'calflike' levity,” Guibert asks, with reference both to
the golden calf of Scripture and probably to the skins on which books were
written, “than to weave together books, which all Christian authority boos and
hisses ...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review
As the blatant irreligion and illogicalness of“ Tom ” Paine, during the
revolutionary period, reasserts itself in the unreasoning bluster of“ Bob" Ingersoll
—which we may call the philosophy of immaturity, or of calflike undevelopment-
so the ...
James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, 1801
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: ...
CALFLIKE, kl'f-lFk. a. Resembling a calf. CALIBER, kAU!b-er, n. The bore of a
gun. CALIBRE, klUrb-er, n. A sort or kind. CAUCE, kal-Is, n. See Chalice. CALICO
, kAUe-kA, n. A stuff made of cotton. CALICO-PRINTER, kAUA-kA-prmt-er, n.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
I no longer wanted to see the boldly angular, and at the same time calflike,
stormtrooper face and took off for London in October of the very year when the
Hitler- Schuschnigg treaty was signed. The events caught up with me. My native
country ...
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, 1999
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Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness
That was his mother's father, Ben Coffey, a tall and pallid man with brown calflike
eyes, subdued and scant of word, who in 1861, a youth of nineteen, had dutifully
enlisted himself off his father's modest homestead into the Eleventh North ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALFLIKE»
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Children loitered in the stairwell or sprawled, calflike, over their mothers' laps. The loans were recorded the old-fashioned way, with ink, ... «CNBC.com, Oct 13»
A Yiddish Cat Still Laughing After Hot, Black Fire
... to the author, who makes us, as readers, complicit in mocking the “calflike” enthusiasm of the ghetto faithful and their endless machinations. «Forward, Mar 09»
Theater Review: Chazz Palminteri in 'A Bronx Tale'
... too -- in particular, Lorenzo the idealistic bus driver, whose young son Cologio (eventually nicknamed just C.) develops a calflike admiration ... «Washington Post, Feb 09»
