The Olive

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Glass Container Association of America, 1920 - 51 sidor
 

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Sida 18 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Sida 15 - ... until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards...
Sida 4 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Sida 31 - ... thirty hours ; they are then put into water which has had bay-salt dissolved in it ; this is the last preparation, and they are sent over to us in this liquor; they are naturally, as they grow on the tree, extremely bitter, and therefore all these preparations are necessary to bring them to their fine flavor.
Sida 31 - The fine sallad oil, as has been before mentioned, is made from this fruit, for which purpose they are gathered ripe ; but for pickling they are gathered when half-ripe, at the latter end of June : they are put into fresh water to soak...
Sida 4 - ... resolved that whichever of them produced a gift most useful to mortals should have possession of the land. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and straightway a horse appeared. Athena then planted the olive. The gods thereupon decreed that the olive was more useful to man than the horse, and gave the city to the goddess, from whom it was called Athenae (Dietionary of Classieal Biogr. and Mythol.). 85. The lion wo
Sida 31 - OLIVES are the fruits of trees, which grow wild in the warmer parts of Europe ; we have them in some of our gardens; but with us they will not ripen to any perfection.
Sida 30 - Olives again, and sprinkle them with hot Water, 'from which, thus order'd, there proceeds another Oil full of Dregs, and not so good as the rest.
Sida 28 - You ought to chuse such as are large, pulpy, well preserv'd and tasted, and those that have been cultivated in hot Countries. They create an Appetite, fortify the Stomach, dissolve and expell the viscous and gross Humours fix'd there, repress Reachings, and are a little nourishing.
Sida 29 - Lightness and Delicacy prick the nervous Fibres of the Tongue. "The Brine produces another good...

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