(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (Countess D'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
(The). A Pagan, who demanded Fezon in marriage; but, overcome by Orson, resigned his claim. (Valentine and Orson.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green…
The lowest-paid labour in the tailoring trade. Such garments are sold to African gold-diggers and agricultural labourers. Soap and shoddy do more for these garments than cotton or cloth. (…
The 39th Foot, so called from the colour of their facings. Now the Dorsetshire, and the facings are white. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green ManGreen…
Maunday Thursday, the great day of absolution in the Lutheran Church. (German, Grün-donnerstag; in Latin, dies viridium, Luke xxiii. 31.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
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Party: Republican LUGAR Richard Green , a Senator from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., April 4, 1932; attended the public schools of…
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I have a warning from the wise man, that “when a rich man speaketh every man holdeth his tongue, and, look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds…
Leonard Michael GreeneBorn: 1918Birthplace: New York City Airplane stall warning device—Greene developed his airplane stall warning device at a time when more than half of all aviation deaths…
(Encyclopedia) Booth, John WilkesBooth, John Wilkeswĭlks [key], 1838–65, American actor, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, b. near Bel Air, Md.; son of Junius Brutus Booth and brother of Edwin Booth.…
Book III HAil holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,
Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
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