Stones. “Having said this, he took up one of St. Stephen's loaves, and was going to hit him with it.” —Rabelais Pantagruel, v. 8. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…
The penitentiary in St. Thomas's parish, Oxford, where women of frail morals are kept under surveillance. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. Wilfrid's…
(Encyclopedia) Charlestown, town on the island of
Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Charlestown is the chief town and
port of the island. Sugar…
Millay, Edna St. Vincent[1892-1950](3)Born at Camden, Maine, and educated at Vassar College. Before entering college, however, when she was but nineteen years of age, she wrote the poem, "…
(Cumberland), situated on the bay formed by St. Bees' Head, founded by Dr. Law, Bishop of Chester, in 1816. St. Bees' was so called from a nunnery founded here in 650, and dedicated to the…
in heraldry, is a Greek cross gules upon a field argent. The field is represented in the Union Jack by a narrow fimbriation. It is the distinguishing badge of the British navy. St. George…
The eider duck. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. DistaffSt. Cecilia 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…
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
Signs of Progress Among the Negroes
Paths of Hope for the Negro
Practical Suggestions of a Southerner
by Jerome Dowd
It is too late in the day to discuss…
(The). The office of the Pope of Rome, said to be founded by St. Peter, the apostle; but St. Peter's Chair means the Catholic festival held in commemoration of the two episcopates founded…
