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It was under his patronage and direction that most of the books were prepared and placed in the Ninevite collection.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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For nearly or quite seven centuries the Ninevite kings had lorded it over the East.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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You might as well have expected me to decipher a Ninevite inscription.
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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He might have stepped out of some Ninevite or Egyptian sculpture.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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Philistine, Damascene, Ninevite and Babylonian had halted; here
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Byzantine practice of not fasting on certain days before Lent begins because of the Artziburion fast of the Armenians and the Ninevite
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Taharqa, his successor, was defeated by Earsarhaddon, and forced to retreat as far as Napata, pursued by the Ninevite hosts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The recent chronological discoveries from Egyptian monuments do not tend to overthrow revelation, nor the Ninevite inscriptions to support it.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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The new tablet, which belongs to the same period, also differs radically from the diction of the Ninevite text in the few lines where they duplicate each other.
The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform Stephen Langdon 1906
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A large portion of the Ninevite tablets brought to light by Oriental research consists of interlinear or parallel translations from Accadian into Assyrian; and thus that long-forgotten language has been recovered by scholars.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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