First time he kissed me, he but only kissedFirst time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Slow to world-…
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the…
(Encyclopedia) Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 1799–1877, American sea captain and antarctic explorer, b. Stonington, Conn. While on a whaling voyage (1820–21) in the South Shetlands, he commanded the Hero…
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, 1861–1934, American educator, b. Chautauqua co., N.Y., grad. Illinois State Normal Univ., 1881, and studied at the Univ. of Michigan and in Germany. He taught…
A copper coin, a penny; so called from its colour. Similarly a sovereign is a “yellow boy.” (See Blunt.) To be done brown. To be roasted, deceived, taken in. Source: Dictionary of…
Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hearYes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in…
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Ford Madox, 1821–93, English historical painter, b. Calais, France. Although closely affiliated with the Pre-Raphaelites in London, he never joined the brotherhood. Examples of…
means brown barrel. The barrels were browned to keep them from rusting. (Dutch, bus, a gun-barrel; Low German, büsse; Swedish, byssa. Our arquebus, blunderbuss.) In 1808 a process of…
DANIEL Wilbur Clarence (Dan) , a Representative from Virginia; born in Chatham, Pittsylvania
County, Va., May 12, 1914; grew up on a tobacco farm in Mecklenburg County,
Va.; educated in Virginia…
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