A Protestant sect founded in 1815 by William O'Bryan, a Wesleyan, of Cornwall; also called Bryanites (3 syl.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bible-…
(Cornwall). A vast egg-like stone, thirty-three feet in length, eighteen in width, and fourteen in thickness, placed on the points of two natural rocks, so that a man may creep under it.…
(The), 1777. A faction organised to place General Gates at the head of the American army. He conquered Burgoyne, October, 1777, at Saratoga, and hoped to supplant Washington. The Conway…
(The). John Opie, of Cornwall, the painter. (1761-1807.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cornubian ShoreCornish Names A B C D E F G H I J K L M…
(The). Cornwall, famous for its tin mines. ... from the bleak Cornubian shore Dispense the mineral treasure, which of old Sidonian pilots sought. Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads. Source:…
(3 syl.). The Peace of Amiens , March 27, 1802, a treaty signed by Joseph Bonaparte, the Marquis of Cornwallis, Azara, and Schimmelpenninck, to settle the disputed points between France,…
Manchester, the great centre of cotton manufactures. “His friends thought he would have preferred the busy life of Cottonopolis to the out-of-way county of Cornwall.” —Newspaper paragraph…
(The). Mark of Cornwall, whose wife Yseult intrigued with Sir Tristram, one of the Knights of the Round Table. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cuckold's…
or Igerne Igrayne. Wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagel, in Cornwall, and mother of King Arthur. His father was Uther, pendragon of the Britons, who married Igerna thirteen days after her…
(The). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. So called because in 1777 their colonel made a long harangue, under heavy fire, on the Spartan discipline and military system. (See…
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