by Ambrose Bierce MACHINATIONMADMACROBIAN -n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is abundantly supplied with examples, from Methuselah to Old Parr, but some…
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(Thomas). The fictitious priest of Bristol, said by Chatterton to have been the author of certain poems which he (Chatterton) published. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
To draw a man's tooth, or extort money from him. The allusion is to the tale told by Holinshed of King John, who extorted 10,000 marks from a Jew living at Bristol by extracting a tooth…
This very celebrated epitaph is in Brading churchyard, Isle of Wight, and is attributed to Mrs. Anne Steele (Theodosia), daughter of a Baptist minister of Bristol, but was touched up by…
The damsel of Brittany. Eleanora, daughter of Geoffrey, second son of Henry II., King of England and Duke of Brittany. At the death of Prince Arthur she was the real heir to the crown, but…
in Fielding's Tom Jones, is designed for the author's friend, Ralph Allen, of Bristol. Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope:…
FoodIn food Washington took what came with philosophy. "If you meet with collegiate fare, it will be unmanly to complain," he told his grandson, though he once complained in camp that "we are…
(Little ). The youngest of “Three sailors of Bristol city,” who “took a boat and went to sea.” There was gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy, And the youngest- he was little Billee, Now, when…
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