by Ambrose Bierce LAOCOONLASTLAP -n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural…
When Gideon's army was too numerous, the men were taken to a stream to drink, and 300 of them lapped water with their tongue; all the rest supped it up (Judges. vii. 4-7). All carnivorous…
Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap. “A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
by Aesop The Fox and the MonkeyThe Fir-Tree and the BrambleThe Ass and the Lap-Dog There was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog. The Ass was housed in the stable with plenty of oats…
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap CameradoAs I lay with my head in your lap camerado,
The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air
I resume,
I know I am restless…
by Robert Burns Lines On John M'Murdo, ESQ.Epigrams Against The Earl Of GallowayEpitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo In wood and wild, ye warbling throng,
Your heavy loss…
(Encyclopedia) Viet MinhViet Minhvēĕtˈ mĭn [key], officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh [League for the Independence of Vietnam], a coalition of Communist and nationalist groups that opposed the…
(Encyclopedia) MalteseMaltesemôltēzˈ [key], breed of very small toy dog of obscure origin that was widely popular in Europe by the beginning of the 19th cent. It stands about 5 in. (12.7 cm) high at…
(Encyclopedia) Earnhardt, Dale (Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr.)Earnhardt, Daleûrnˈhärt [key], 1951–2001, American auto racing driver widely regarded as stock car racing's greatest star, b. Kannapolis, N.C…
(Encyclopedia) dulcimerdulcimerdŭlˈsĭmər [key], stringed musical instrument. It is a wooden box with strings stretched over it that are struck with small mallets. The number of strings may vary. The…
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