(compare Pr 6: 12). scorneth judgment -- sets at naught the dictates of justice. devoureth -- literally, "swalloweth," as something delightful. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!) and therein are serpents of vast bulk and fearsome aspect: and what ship soever cometh to these climes there riseth to her a great fish90 out of the sea and swalloweth her up with all and everything on board her. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And the present was a cup of ruby a span high85 the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth; 86 and an hundred thousand miskals of Indian lign-aloes and a slave-girl like a shining moon. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The horse in the light of an useful beast, fit for the plough, the road, the draft; in every social useful light, the horse has nothing sublime; but is it thus that we are affected with him, whose neck is clothed with thunder, the glory of whose nostrils is terrible, who swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet? ❋ Unknown (2007)
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. ❋ Unknown (2006)
'He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage', 'he quoted softly. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
This vale swalloweth vp all heauie things that come vpon it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'Neath earth,' neath hell that swalloweth up the dead; ❋ Unknown (2002)
Hateful to it altogether, and a loathing, is he who will never defend himself, he who swalloweth down poisonous spittle and bad looks, the all – too – patient one, the all – endurer, the all – satisfied one: for that is the mode of slaves. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. ❋ Unknown (1999)
And the present was a cup of ruby a span high, the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth; and a hundred thousand miskals of Indian lign aloes and a slave girl like a shining moon. ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)
Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In addition to these, her accumulation of pet specialities included a seven-fingered starfish, which is supposed by the ignorant to be peculiarly inimical to the adventurous cat that swalloweth it; and a ring-horned pandalus or ` Aesop prawn, 'which queer creature Master Bob appropriately christened ` The Prawnee Chief,' much to the annoyance of ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Like a snake that swalloweth up frogs and other creatures living in holes, the earth swalloweth up a king that is peaceful and a Brahmana that stirreth not out of home. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
A foe, however insignificant, if suffered to grow in prowess, swalloweth one like the white ants at the root of a tree eating off the tree itself. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
