Things dug up, animal and vegetable remains dug out of the earth. (Latin, fodio, to dig up.) “Many other bodies, which, because we discover them by digging into the bowels of the earth,…
“Wilbraham has fou-drunk”—i.e. is despicably drunk, dead drunk. French, fou, “mad,” as fou-enragé; or simply fu', i.e. “full,” “intensive,” as in full-oft, “full-well ye reject the…
Say on; say what you have to say. The allusion to firing a gun; as, You are primed up to the muzzle with something you want to say; fire away and discharge your thoughts. “`Foster, I have…
Off the TurnpikeGood ev'nin', Mis' Priest.
I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye.
Yes, it's all over.
All my things is packed
An' every last one o' them boxes
Is on Bradley's team
Bein'…
Po' Sandy The Awakening of the Negro Dave's Neckliss by Charles W. Chesnutt "Have some dinner, Uncle Julius?" said my wife. It was a Sunday afternoon in early autumn. Our two…
by Rabindranath Tagore III The widow in the house of Saradasankar, the Ranihat zemindar, had no kinsmen of her father's family. One after another all had died. Nor had she in her husband'…
