| Job 39:18
| When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
| High. With her head erect, the ostrich is taller than a man on horseback. (Pliny 10:1.) --- Its wings are used like sails, and enable it to run as fast as many birds can fly, (Calmet0 while it hurls stones at the pursuer with its feet, so as frequently to kill them. (Diodorus ii.) --- Rider, as they can travel with equal speed. (Menochius) (Ver. 13.) --- Adamson (Senegal) placed two negroes on one, and testified that it still went faster than any English horse. (Haydock)
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