(See Raven.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LandiereLandau' A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…
or Read (Simon), alluded to by Ben Jonson in the Alchemist, i. 2, was Simon Read, of St. George's, Southwark, professor of physic. Rymer, in his Foedera, vol. xvi., says, “he was indicted…
(The). Let who will be king, I will be vicar of Bray still. Brome says of Simon Alleyn that he “lived in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. In the first two…
A holiday observed by journeyman shoemakers and other inferior mechanics, and well-to-do merchants. In the Journal of the Folk-lore Society, vol. i. p. 245, we read that, “While Cromwell's…
Rich cakes eaten in Lancashire in Mid-Lent. Simnel is the German semmel, a manchet or roll; Danish and Norwegian simle; Swedish, simla. In Somersetshire a teacake is called a simlin. A…
is sine plica, without a fold; as duplicity is duplex plica, a double fold. Conduct “without a fold” is straightforward, but thought without a fold is mere childishness. It is “tortuity of…
Passing (5 Att)AttCmpPctYdsTDRateTodd Collins39121555.023671269.5Alex Van Pelt1246048.4684237.2Interceptions: Collins 13, Van Pelt 10.Waived: Billy Joe Hobert on Oct. 15 (see New Orleans).Top…
by Robert Burns The Young Highland RoverOn The Death Of Robert Dundas,...Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787[1] Afar the illustrious Exile roams,
Whom kingdoms on this day…
A half-witted lad whose companion is a raven. (Dickens: Barnaby Rudge.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BarnacleBarnaby Lecturers A B C D E F G H I…
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