16; presages recovery or death of patients); (4) the pelican (recalls its young to life by its own blood); (5) the owl (or nyktikorax; loves darkness and solitude); (6) the eagle (renews its youth by sunlight and bathing in a fountain); (7) the phoenix (revives from fire); (8) the hoopoe (redeems its parents from the ills of old age); (9) the wild ass (suffers no male besides itself); (1 o) the viper (born at the cost of both its parents' death); (I I) the serpent (sheds its skin; puts aside its venom before drinking; is afraid of man in a state of nudity; hides its head and abandons the rest of its body); (12) the ant (orderly and laborious; prevents stored grain from germinating; distinguishes wheat from barley on the stalk); (13) the sirens and onocentaurs (Isa. [Please select]
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Death sometimes redeems his atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. [Please select]
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Thy faithfulness outweighs the cruelty of others, and redeems our human nature. [Please select]
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But the character saves it from this category; what one may almost call its psychological interest redeems its superficial triviality. [Please select]
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Land of Sir Richard of the Lea in, 323; Sir Richard redeems the land, 324-327; Sir Richard returns to, 333 V VAKR. [Please select]
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"The most sensible thing you could have done; it redeems your foolishness in leaving us as you did." [Please select]
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Warned by his early fall, he redeems his character and wins the Victoria Cross. [Please select]
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Smaller, fatter, deadlier than the diamond-back, it gives none of the warning which redeems the latter from complete abhorrence. [Please select]
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It is through reason we get the self-reliance that redeems us. [Please select]
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What redeems the scenery of the high Andes is the richness and delicacy of the colours which the brilliant desert light gives to distant objects. [Please select]
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This is a flinty sponge, the "Venus flower-basket," whose presence in the sponge family redeems it from the charge that it contains no things of beauty whatever. [Please select]
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