by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 27, 1805June 29, 1805June 28, 1805 Friday June 28th 1805. Set Drewyer to shaving the Elk skins, Fields to make the cross stays for the boat…
by Robert Burns Sketch-New Year's Day [1790]Lines To A Gentleman,Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries. What needs this din about…
Day 1527 Day 1529 Lewis, August 7, 1806 Thursday August 7th 1806. It began to rain about midnight and continued with but little intermission until 10 A.M. today. the air was cold and…
“The lowest seat o' hell.” “If you do not mend your ways, you will be sent to Pirie's chair, the lowest seat of hell.” In Pirie's chair you'll sit, I say, The lowest seat o' hell; If ye do…
A curtailed oath. “Go to the devil!” or some such phrase. Cassius: I [am] able than yourself To make conditions. Brutus: Go to! You are not, Cassius.' Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. GO…
Go to Bungay with you! —i.e. get away and don't bother me, or don't talk such stuff. Bungay, in Suffolk, used to be famous for the manufacture of leather breeches, once very fashionable.…
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 7, 1806June 9, 1806June 8, 1806 Sunday June 8th 1806. Drewyer returned this morning from the chase without having killed anything. his hose…
(To). To make a painful effort to remember or understand something. The idea is from taking a stick to beat a dull boy under the notion that dulness is the result of temper or inattention…
One who seeks to mend his fortune by marriage. He is the suitor of Anne Page. Her father objects to him, he says, because I am too great of birth; And that, my state being gall'd with my…
