Part 42A call in the midst of the crowd,
My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.Come my children,
Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
Now the performer launches his…
(Tony), in She Stoops to Conquer, by Goldsmith. A sheepish, mischievous, idle, cunning lout, “with the vices of a man and the follies of a boy;” fond of low company, but giving himself the…
by Robert Burns Song-"No Churchman Am I"John Barleycorn: A BalladMy Father Was A Farmer Tune-"The weaver and his shuttle, O." My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O…
Heretics of the second century, who held a number of idle stories about creation, which they attributed to a number of agents called “archons.” (Greek, archon , a prince or ruler.)…
I am living at Ripaille- in idleness and pleasure. (French, faire Ripaille.) Amadeus VIII., Duke of Savoy, retired to Ripaille, near Geneva, where he threw off all the cares of state, and…
An idle, meddlesome fellow, who has no occupation of his own, and is always interfering with other folk's business. (John Poole: Paul Pry, a comedy.) The original was Thomas Hill. Source…
called Christian Bones. It is said that the walls of Philadelphia, in Turkey, were built of the bones of Christians killed in the Holy Wars. This idle tale has gained credit from the…
Commonalty. (See Proletaire.) “Italy has a clerical aristocracy, rich, idle, and corrupt; and a clerical proletariat, needy and grossly ignorant.” —The Times. Source: Dictionary of…
(La). St. Monday. Monday spent by workmen in idleness. One of the rules enjoined by the Sheffield unionists was that no work should be permitted to be done on a Monday by any of their…
A fruitless errand. It should be written sleaveless, as it comes from sleave, ravelled thread, or the raw-edge of silk. In Troilus and Cressida, Thersi'tës the railer calls Patroclus an “…
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