" ... And John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist ; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope ( also known as thin end of the wedge-or sometimes " edge " in US English-or the camel's nose ) is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy.

There are urban myths about subliminal images allegedly being hidden within the artwork of the camel, such as a ' Manneken Pis ' - Brussels ' most famous statue-which is supposed to be standing within the camel's front left leg.

The hair is clipped off using hand shears, or sometimes simply pulled, after which the camel's body is oiled.

It is nonetheless still powerfully structured and well adapted to anchoring exceptionally strong jaw muscles which give it enough bite-force to splinter a camel's thigh bone.

The north peak is part of a long, gently-rising ridge ; this peak consists of two high points that resemble a camel's humps.

The idiom the straw that broke the camel's back is from an Arabic proverb about how a camel is loaded beyond its capacity to move or stand.

One of the earliest published usages of this phrase was in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son where he says " As the last straw breaks the laden camel's back ", meaning that there is a limit to everyone's endurance, or everyone has his breaking point.

Clyde is arguably the most memorable character of the song, due to Stevens ' exaggerated imitation of a camel's braying vocalization.

He is remembered also for the phrase It is the last feather that breaks the horse's back ( Works, 1655 ), an early version of The last straw that breaks the camel's back.

* Only sheep's wool is susceptible to a negah of tzaraath, although an even mixture of sheep's wool and another type of wool ( camel's wool, for example ) can be afflicted.

Brash also claimed that the publication of the book did not contribute to his decision to resign as National Party leader, although most observers see it as the straw that broke the camel's back.

The " camel's nose " provides one example of this: once a camel has managed to place its nose within a tent, the rest of the camel will inevitably follow.

Also camel's meat, milk and skin were important.

" In a Qantas inflight radio program named " Reeling in the Years ", Copeland said an ongoing argument between himself and Sting over what drum machine to use in the sessions was " the straw that broke the camel's back ", and led to the group's unraveling.

Wilde's play in one act involves a queen, a princess, a king, and an ominous prophet clad in camel's hair dress, Iokanaan, whose appearance may bring untold and terrible events.

It destroys all of an inner city's major social structures, and acts as the straw that broke the camel's back for the social institutions of ghettos, whose positions are already precarious.

Shaped like a camel's hump, Perry County consists of that fit neatly into a wedge created by the confluence of Apple Creek and the Mississippi River.

Set in ancient times, Rajaz was a spontaneous composition inspired by the rhythm of the camel's footsteps to help weary travelers reach their destination.

In Lebanon, a band called " Babel " ( as in " Babylon ") improvised over camel's song " Storm Clouds " on October 28 of 2011.

Common dairy foods are goat's and camel's milk, as well as cheese and yogurt made from them.

After martial law ended in 1944, O ' Hara's book " My Life as a Honolulu Prostitute " was the straw that broke the camel's back, and led to a complete shutdown of the brothels.

Common names include slipper orchid, lady's slipper, mocassin flower, camel's foot, squirrel foot, steeple cap, Venus ' shoes and whippoorwill shoe.

The main symptoms are recurring fever, anemia and weakness, which usually ends with the camel's death.

Still, today cheese, even hard cheese, and other dairy products can be made out of the camel's milk.

A special factory has been set up in Nouakchott to pasteurize and make cheese out of camel's milk.

Yersinia pestis was isolated from the camel's bone marrow, as well as from the jird ( Meriones libycus ) and fleas ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) captured at the camel's corral.

The added stress from a few dry years may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

# storing fat reserves in one place ( e. g. camel's hump ) to avoid its insulating effect

In the treatise, he demonstrates how a camel's pace could be hastened or retarded with the use of music, and shows other examples of how music can affect animal behavior, experimenting with horses, birds and reptiles.

At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Paperweight may be personalized on back while clay is leather hard.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

The cork is covered with thin leather or synthetic material.

The prima balalaika is played with the fingers, the secunda and alto either with the fingers or a plectrum, depending on the music being played, and the bass and contrabass ( equipped with extension legs that rest on the floor ) are played with leather plectrums.

Due to the large size of the contrabass's strings, it is not uncommon to see players using plectrums made from a leather shoe or boot heel.

The hide is used to make calfskin, or tanned into leather and called " Novillo ," Spanish for steer.

(" Cordwainer " is an archaic word for " A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather ; a shoemaker ", and a " smith " is " One who works in iron or other metals ; esp.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used.

A guitar strap is a strip of fabric with a leather or synthetic leather piece on each end.

On a commercial scale, gelatin is made from by-products of the meat and leather industry.

More popular in the United States is the landau style, with a heavily-padded leather or ( later ) vinyl roof, and long blind rear quarters, similarly covered, and decorated with large metal S-shaped bars designed to resemble those used to lower the tops on some horse-drawn coaches.

The ball is spherical and must either be made of leather or a synthetic material.

Most of the time, one side is left as bare wood while the other side may be covered in leather or a softer material such as piano felt.

In Dan Neils 22 May 2010 review of the Aston Martin Rapide in the Wall Street Journal " The Aston's stitched leather interior is simply magnificent, like they rolled the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch into a stockyard.

A show halter is made from rolled leather and the lead attaches to form the chinpiece of the noseband.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

It is customary to wear white on Yom Kippur, especially for Kol Nidre, and leather shoes are not worn.

He views Rosenstiel as a liar who was paid for her story, whose " description of Hoover in drag engaging in sex with young blond boys in leather while desecrating the Bible is clearly a homophobic fantasy ”.

The one major difference between the javelin of the ancient games and the javelin of more modern times is a leather thong, called an ankyle that was wound around the middle of the shaft.