The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... purple , in regal tissue , in royal magnificence , she stood within the altar's sacred pale ; and her robes , rich in Tyrian dye , and glittering with Ophir's gold , swept the hallowed pavement . When battle aroused the land she ...
... purple , in regal tissue , in royal magnificence , she stood within the altar's sacred pale ; and her robes , rich in Tyrian dye , and glittering with Ophir's gold , swept the hallowed pavement . When battle aroused the land she ...
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... purple , and scarlet , and fine linen , and goats ' hair , and red skins of rams , and badgers ' skins , brought them . Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord's offering and every man with whom was ...
... purple , and scarlet , and fine linen , and goats ' hair , and red skins of rams , and badgers ' skins , brought them . Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord's offering and every man with whom was ...
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... purple , and light blue , entwined with gold . They had made also sacerdotal vestments , the " coats of fine linen " worn by all the priests , which , when old , were unravelled , and made into wicks burnt in the feast of tabernacles ...
... purple , and light blue , entwined with gold . They had made also sacerdotal vestments , the " coats of fine linen " worn by all the priests , which , when old , were unravelled , and made into wicks burnt in the feast of tabernacles ...
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... purple and scarlet ; the flowers on his " girdle of needlework , " glowing as in life ; the border on the ephod , in which every varied colour was shaded off into a rich and delicate tracery of gold ; and above all , that exquisite work ...
... purple and scarlet ; the flowers on his " girdle of needlework , " glowing as in life ; the border on the ephod , in which every varied colour was shaded off into a rich and delicate tracery of gold ; and above all , that exquisite work ...
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... Purple the sails , and so perfumed , that The winds were love - sick with then the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke , and made The water , which they beat , to follow faster , As amorous of their strokes . For ...
... Purple the sails , and so perfumed , that The winds were love - sick with then the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke , and made The water , which they beat , to follow faster , As amorous of their strokes . For ...
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