This public-house sign represents the gamekeeper, who used at one time to be dressed in green. But the `Green Man' shall I pass by unsung, Which mine own James upon his sign-post hung? His…
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I do not expostulate with thee, but with them who dare do that; who dare expostulate with thee, when in the voice of thy church thou givest allowance…
Green Daypunk rock band Enormously popular punk rock band that developed an enthusiastic and growing following with the independent release Kerplunk (1992), and then exploded on the scene…
Book V Now Morn her rosie steps in th' Eastern Clime
Advancing, sow'd the Earth with Orient Pearle,
When ADAM wak't, so customd, for his sleep
Was Aerie light, from pure digestion bred,
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(The). The 5th Dragoon Guards; so called because they are a horse regiment, and have green for their regimental facings. Now called “The Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards.”…
The Persian Gulf; so called from a remarkable strip of water of a green colour along the Arabian coast. Between 1690 and 1742 the 2nd Life Guards were facetiously called “The Green Sea”…
PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, the God of security, and the enemy of security too, who wouldst have us always sure of thy love, and yet wouldst have us always doing…
What's in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the “Green Bag Inquiry” (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
(a nautical phrase). Inferior sailors, also called boys. A crew is divided into (1) Able seamen; (2) Ordinary seamen; and (3) Green hands or boys. The term “boys” has no reference to age…
The Board of Green Cloth. A board connected with the royal household, having power to correct offenders within the verge of the palace and two hundred yards beyond the gates. A warrant…
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