10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORNED ASP»
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1
The Temple of Deir El Bahari
The design, it will be observed, is composed of a horned asp, crowned with a
disk, and bearing before it the seal-ring . Below, and as it were embracing the
asp, is the sign . The latter sign, whenever occurring in this friezedesign, has
been ...
2
Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Bible: with the Biblical ...
It resembles the Cerastes, too, by having, at the end of its snout, a little eminence,
a sort of horn, about a quarter of an inch in height, moveable backwards; hence it
has been called in many countries the "horned asp," or Aspic. Its bite kills in ...
Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor,
1830
3
The Wonders of Nature and Providence, Displayed: Compiled ...
... a sort of horn, about a quarter of an inch in height, moveable backward, from
whence it has been called in many countries the " horned asp," or aspic. Its bite
kills in three hours time ; though some persons bitten may survive several days.
From old times down to the present day it has had various names; it was called
Cethiu or Cethina from its first inhabitant of the same name. Then Cerastin or the
horned, from the horned asp which was formerly found there in great numbers: or
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From old times down to the present day it has had various names ; it was called
Cethin or Cethina from its first inhabitant of the same name. Then Cerastin or the
horned, from the horned asp which was formerly found there in great numbers: or
...
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Time and tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a ...
The puff-adder or horned asp are not more real. Unbelievable, — those, —
unless you had seen them ; no fable could have been coined out of any human
brain so dreadful, within its own poor material sphere, as that blue-lipped serpent
...
7
The Works of John Ruskin: Time and tide
The puff-adder or horned asp is not more real. Unbelievable, — those, — unless
you had seen them ; no fable could have been coined out of any human brain so
dreadful, within its own poor material sphere, as that blue-lipped serpent ...
8
Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture ...
It resembles the cerastes, too, by having, at the end of its snout, a little eminence,
a sort of horn, about a quarter of an inch in height, moveable backward, from
whence it has been called in many countries the "horned asp," or aspic. Its bite
kills ...
Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells,
1814
9
The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of ...
In the Hieroglyphic alphabet the horned asp, or 'cerastes,' K~- , had the value of/i
and also of v and u . It would therefore serve as the prototype of van. The striking
resemblance between the Moabite V and the Hieratic ^f leaves little doubt as to ...
10
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret ...
The horned asp, representing/f/,was replaced by theserpent, representing /z/.
And sometimes thescribesused a hieroglyph on the rebus principle, asin
Englisha pictureofabee might represent b; thus asailboat, “khentey,” stands
foranother ...