(Encyclopedia) marl or bog lime, soil, essentially clay mixed with carbonate of lime, highly valued as a dressing or fertilizer. It crumbles rapidly and easily. Marl in which the lime is in the form…
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(Encyclopedia) Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889–1975, American regionalist painter, b. Neosho, Mo.; grandnephew of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton and son of Rep. Maecenas E. Benton. In 1906 and 1907 he attended…
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Statutes of Marlborough. Certain laws passed in the reign of Henry III., by a parliament held in Marlborough Castle. (See Malbrouk [Sen va-t'-en guerre].) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
The physicians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coals, and lug of the disease, and seek to purge or correct thatSit Morbi Fomes Tibi CuraMeditationJohn Donne HOW ruinous a farm…
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