In a comparable description, archaeologist Layard wrote: “Although docile as a lamb, and requiring no other guide than the halter, when the Arab mare hears the war-cry of the tribe, and sees the quivering spear of her rider, her eyes glitter with fire, her blood-red nostrils open wide, her neck is nobly arched, and her tail and mane are raised and spread out to the wind.”—Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 1853, page 330
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 2006 p. 15
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From the book Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 2009 p. 28 Did You Know?