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(To). A cricketer is said to carry out his bat when he is not “out” at the close of the game. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Carry Swords!Carry Out A B C…
(A.) A surgeon's mate in the navy. Here lob is the Welsh llob, a dolt, and loblolly boy is a dolt not yet out of his spoon-meat or baby-pap. “Loblolly-boy is a person on board a man-of-war…
(A). A gold sovereign. “John did not starve the cause: there wanted not yellow-boys to fee counsel.” —Arbuthnot: John Bull. Yellow-boy (A). A bankrupt. The French call a bankrupt…
Sonny Boy Williamson(John Lee Williamson)blues singer, harmonica playerBorn: 3/30/1914Birthplace: Jackson, Tennessee One of the founding members of the post-War Chicago blues scene, Sonny Boy…
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And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and…
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