The former says: ‘Life in the desert seems to be an especially favourable soil for Monotheism.
Dâgôn also is, with the Assyrians as well as with the Canaanites, the god of fertility of the soil and founder of civilisation.
He seemed earth-born, an Antaeus, and to suck in fresh vigour from the soil which he neighboured.
I could not help thinking of the beauty of the field and forest on such days, when the green is shooting out from the soil in the gardens, when the plough is carving out slices from mother earth and the birds are singing in the trees.
All soilwhich has become foul by the soakage of decaying or vegetable matter should be similarly treated.
A densely crowded population soon impregnates the soil to some depth with filth, which drains into the water course below, especially if such water is near the surface.
The soil pipe inside the house should be carried up through the roof and be open at the top.
The soil is exhausted; and until the lost constituent is restored, the body is protected from any further attack from the same disorder.
If the soil be damp, or the district malarious, sprinkle quicklime upon the earth as fast as it is turned.
Any obstruction in the soilor waste pipes is therefore doubly dangerous, because it may produce an inflow of foul gas into the pipe, even though the entrance to the sewer itself has been entirely cut off.
This collects organic matter that rapidly changes, and also affords a soil in which a sort of fungus speedily springs up.
Nourished at the expense of putrefying organic matter, they reduce its complex constituents into soluble mineral substances, which they return to the soil to serve afresh for the nourishment of similar plants.
The cats have slept there to fight the rats and the mice, who have had their little homes behind the walls for half a century; and the sink spouts have for the same term poured into the soil close by, their fragrant fluids.
The meager soiland parsimonious culture, the reasonable discourse of the people, their wholesome disputatiousness, acted as a kind of purge or tonic after all this Southern exuberance.
If the ancients had not exhausted themselves with Homer, the soil might not have been ready for our Renaissance.
Viewed by itself, the Renaissance may seem overwhelming; it shoots up like a portentous lily out of the blood-drenched soil of a thousand battlefields.
Like all their race, they sleep during the winter, passing this season in holes which they excavate in the soil sometimes more than thirty inches deep.
The holes do not appear to be very deep, and they enter the ground at a small angle; so that when walking over one of these Lizard warrens, the soil is constantly giving way, much to the annoyance of the tired pedestrian.
In the Congress of 1850 the Northern or Free soil party insisted on the absolute prohibition of slavery in all the new territory acquired from Mexico.
Soils of more than ordinary fertility can not sustain it long, after the richness of the soilhas been exhausted.
The slaveholding States had every advantage, both in soil and climate, over their neighbors.
Whole forests are felled by the ruthless hand of slavery, the trees are cut into logs, rolled into heaps, covered with the limbs and brush, and then burned on the identical soil that gave them birth.
On the other hand, the ignorance of the Slave States is principally native ignorance, but comparatively few emigrants from Europe seeking a home upon a soilcursed with "the peculiar institution.
Now, as one of your own number, we appeal to you to join us in our patriotic endeavors to rescue the generous soil of the South from the usurped and desolating control of these political vampires.
Because they believe, and not only believe, but see and know, that slavery is an unmitigated curse to the soil that sustains it.
After a time, you see, the nourishment in the soilat the surface is sucked out of it by the roots of the grass.
So you see, the worms do not merely turn the soil over, they enrich it as well, and help very largely indeed to keep it in such a condition that plants can continue to grow in it.
One is large, and pushes through the top-soil like a mole.
But, besides turning the soil over, they manure it; for almost every night from early spring to late autumn worms are busy dragging down leaves into their burrows.
It appears to burrow through the soil for a few feet, then to come to the surface and crawl for a little distance, and then to burrow again.
One, at least, of the American kinds sinks its own burrows, in the form of round holes in the soil of damp meadows.
These are made by piling up a number of logs, mingled with clods of earth, stones, and clay, and digging out the soil from underneath so as to form a sort of hut.
Soon after they rise to the surface of the sea a kind of soilis deposited upon them, made up partly of powdered coral, ground up by the action of the waves, and partly of decaying vegetable matter which has been flung up on them.
These holes go down to water, which the animal cannot live long away from; and a part of the soil dug out is piled about the mouth of the hole in a little tower or chimney, sometimes several inches high.
The warm, soft soil of old barnyards is a favorite place for the laying of their eggs by snakes, most of which bury them in such places and leave them to be hatched by the warmth of the sunshine.
But the worms are always bringing up fresh, rich, unused soil from below, and spreading it over the surface in the form of what farmers call a top-dressing.
Its body is the cylinder, and its head is the point; and so the animal is able to work its way through the soil with as little difficulty as possible.
These claws are also used in digging, and can be used with such effect that if the animal is surprised when on sandy soil it sinks into the ground as if by magic.
Why, I mean that the milky-looking water you find by digging a few feet into the soil of these low-lying lands is poisonous.
It is surface water, an exudation from the mass of decaying vegetable matter that constitutes the soil of the swamps.
The work was easy, not only because the sandy soil was easily shoveled out without the use of picks or spades, but because of the form Cal’s observation of other temporary well digging had taught him to give to the excavation.
In countries which are subject to long-continued droughts the soil is frequently converted into dust, which, being carried away by the winds, leaves the land barren.
Hekataeos, Artemidoros, Eratosthenes, and Strabo describe the climate and soilof Persia as cold and sterile in the north, temperate and fertile in the central or valley regions, and hot and enervating in the south.
Today two cities stand where their green fields once showed the first broken soil north of the Platte River.
There was no map of it--none save that written on the soilnow and then by an Indian girl sixteen years of age.
We are on our own soil now, and we will not turn for any order in the world but that of the President of the United States!
The sun strikes them on a different side; their laterals and tap-roots have been severed; they meet different conditions of soil than they were trained for.
The fact is these mounds were formed of pure dark loam, as fine a soil as anywhere in the Lake Country.
Here is a peculiar thing: If we wear white clothing for a day or two, an unmistakable soil attaches, so that change is enforced.
At the same time, the crowds of common people are the soil of the future, a splendid mass potentially, the womb of every heroism and masterpiece to be.
Plant it in rose soil and it will pour itself out in lush madness that forgets to bloom--like a servant that one spoils by treating as a human.
Do you think that the actual hurt of their beauty--the restless, nameless quest that comes spurring to our hearts from their silent leaning over the rim of a vase--is nothing more than a product of soil and sun?
The soil was rapidly exhausted by planting the same crop year after year, for it was easier to take up fresh land than to restore productivity to the old.
We get Florida loaded and encumbered with land grants which leave scarcely a foot of soil for the United States.
This ever-recurring exhaustion of the soil and demand for new land was a potent cause of the incessant pressure of population into the virgin lands of the Southwest, in succeeding decades.
He at once issued orders to the state military officers to hold the militia in readiness to repel any invasion of the soil of Georgia.
He owed his crops less to intelligent cultivation of the soil than to provident Nature in a new and untilled country.
Between the stumps of his clearing he planted his first crop of Indian corn; and what the soil did not yield for his sustenance, he supplied with his trusty rifle.
Up this very creek the clink of the ship-builders' hammers had rung, and the soil upon its banks was vigorous with the memories of British sailors.
In regard to agriculture the Egyptians were the most advanced of the nations of antiquity, since the fertility of their soil made the occupation one of primary importance.
Although the soilwas rich, manures were frequently used.
He prohibited the exportation of the fruits of the soil in Attica, with the exception of olive-oil alone,--a regulation difficult to be enforced in a mercantile State.
The hard adobesoil has cracked in every direction.
I was busy makin' down my bed an' never heerd how he come out 'ceptin' he says there was some fool law these Mexicans has which don't allow the body of any one what dies on Mexican soil to be taken out of the country for five years.
But, in general, the rich soil is left uncultivated, and is covered by wild and sickly vegetation, which checks the progress of the traveller.
The fertility of the human race seems to be as that of the soil on which its several tribes are located.
It would be a curious inquiry for a naturalist to endeavour to account for its disappearance, for the nature of the soil has not so much changed.
Not a ten-thousandth part of the soil is cultivated.
I repeat again, nothing but foreign conquest by a non-slaveholding power will extirpate slavery from the soil of Africa.
The surface of the ground is now undulating sand and red earth, and every trace of stone has almost disappeared; the soil is also covered with karengia and other herbs, all dry and sapless.
The sandy soilis well adapted for this kind of grain.
And if men ask whereby he knoweth a great boar, he shall answer that he knoweth him by the traces and by his den, and by the soil (wallowing pool).
Boars and sows go to soil gladly when they go to their pasture, all day and when they return they sharpen their tusks and cut against trees when they rub themselves on coming from the soil.
And every day in the heat of the day, and he be not hindered, from May to September, he goes to soil though he be not hunted.
When men hunt the boar they commonly go to soil and soil in the dirt and if they be hurt the soil is their medicine.
Wherefore O frail, weak, human heart, seek thou out carefully constructed means by which to transmute sunshine and soil and showers into flowers and fruit.
Every atom of soil, every drop of sap, goes to produce flowers and fruit and seed: root and branch and leaf are but carefully constructed means by which to transmute sunshine and soil and flower and fruit and seed.
So, A friend will show a friend all over his domain; A lover can but point out to the lover the flowers (and thorns) which grow in the soil to which they are both strangers.
The soil is deep, and in places there are pits where excavations have been made.
The Senator resumed: "The soil is remarkably rich.
But nothing could eradicate the "protest of the sea" against union with England, or the tendency of dwellers on Irish soil to become Irishmen.
We may see the phenomenon in its simplest form in the plant community, where the very growth of the community creates a soil in which the community is no longer able to exist.
On such soil one can scarcely speak of a competitive struggle for existence; in this case a struggle takes place between the plant and inanimate nature, but to little or no extent between plant and plant.
By 1883 the importation of grains from the virgin soil of the western prairies in the United States had brought about an agricultural crisis in every country in western Europe.
The plant borrows from the soil; the soil from the rocks and the atmosphere; men and animals take from the plants and from each other the elements which they in death return to the soil, the atmosphere, and the plants.
The carpet of moss in a pine forest, for example, protects the soilfrom desiccation and is thus useful to the pine; yet, on the other hand, it profits from the shade cast by the latter.
The first and most obvious element of the continuity of group unity is the continuance of the locality, of the place and soil on which the group lives.
With the progressive rapidity, ease, and security of transportation, and the increase in communication, there follows an increasing detachment of the population from the soil and a concurrent concentration in great cities.
Closed communities (one in which all the soil is occupied) likewise exert a marked influence in decreasing invasion by reason of the intense and successful competition which all invaders must meet.
Sowing, planting, and grafting were learned from nature herself, and gradually the cultivation of the soil was carried farther and farther up the hills.
