Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Job xxxviii. 31.

Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Job xxxviii. 32.

He smelleth the battle afar off.

Job xxxix. 25.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?

Job xli. 1.

Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.