{"query": "Queen of Puddings", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5e3796a10633", "title": "Easton: Queen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the “queen of Sheba.” The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for “queen” is not malkah, one actually ruli"}, {"id": "card_n_76a8fa96dc9a", "title": "Queen of Puddings", "shelf": "recipes", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mrs. Beeton called it 'a most economical and useful pudding.' True today.\n\n· 1½ cups fine breadcrumbs\n· 2½ cups milk\n· ½ cup sugar (divided)\n· Zest of 1 lemon\n· 1 tablespoon butter\n· 3 eggs, separated"}, {"id": "card_n_4a14f154615a", "title": "Easton: Sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf. (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the founder of "}, {"id": "card_n_aefd11433a6f", "title": "Easton: Mordecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been alleged that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah, and hence that he must have been at least one hundred and twenty-nine years old in the "}, {"id": "card_n_122680f3a7ed", "title": "Easton: Belshazzar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-sharezer. When still young h"}, {"id": "card_n_96612e496850", "title": "Easton: Ashtoreth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature, their principal female deity; frequently associated with the name of Baal, the sun-god, their chief male deity (Judg."}, {"id": "card_n_011ba7f6990b", "title": "Easton: Candace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The queen of the Ethiopians whose “eunuch” or chamberlain was converted to Christianity by the instrumentality of Philip the evangelist (Acts 8:27). The country which she ruled was called by the Greek"}, {"id": "card_n_234a24a21e38", "title": "Easton: Libnah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Transparency; whiteness. (1.) One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 33:20, 21). (2.) One of the royal cities of the Canaanites taken by Joshua (Josh. 10:29-32; 12:15). It becam"}, {"id": "card_n_2cac7e4c49d7", "title": "Easton: Persecution", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers of God among the Jews in the days of Ahab, when that king, at the instiga"}, {"id": "card_n_4c8abd61944b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_051: There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those brotherly and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of t"}, {"id": "card_n_76e73075506e", "title": "Easton: Pharaoh’s daughters", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: (1.) The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v.), Ex. 2:10. She is twice mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 7:21: Heb. 11:24). It would seem th"}, {"id": "card_n_918cf8380e31", "title": "Easton: Ethiopian eunuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chief officer or prime minister of state of Candace (q.v.), queen of Ethiopia. He was converted to Christianity through the instrumentality of Philip (Act 8:27). The northern portion of Ethiopia f"}, {"id": "card_n_cd6da3d389e4", "title": "Easton: Famine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Ge"}, {"id": "card_n_540aced688be", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_082: Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, the fear of some unlucky accident. [\"Thus terminated that famous war of the Fronde. The Duke de la Rochefou"}, {"id": "card_n_96bd38ccd836", "title": "Easton: Melons", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Num. 11:5, the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the LXX. and Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there are various kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which has been c"}, {"id": "card_n_c61aa49bf7b4", "title": "Easton: Esther", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess named Hadas’sah (the myrtle), but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth b"}, {"id": "card_n_927d56598d47", "title": "Easton: Balm", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contracted from Bal’sam, a general name for many oily or resinous substances which flow or trickle from certain trees or plants when an incision is made through the bark. (1.) This word occurs in the "}, {"id": "card_n_877ad302d9b2", "title": "Easton: Naphtuhim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Hamitic tribe descended from Mizraim (Gen. 10:13). Others identify this word with Napata, the name of the city and territory on the southern frontier of Mizraim, the modern Meroe, at the great bend "}, {"id": "card_n_5c609bf3d004", "title": "Easton: Michaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The queen-mother of King Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2). (See MAACAH [4]). (2.) One of those sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7). (3.) 2 Kings 22:12. (4.) The son of Gem"}, {"id": "card_n_c2ea5e4883a8", "title": "Easton: Vashti", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beautiful, the queen of Ahasuerus, who was deposed from her royal dignity because she refused to obey the king when he desired her to appear in the banqueting hall of Shushan the palace (Esther 1:10-1"}]}