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Day 574 Day 576 Clark, April 3, 1805 April the 3rd Thursday 1805 a white frost this morning, Some ice on the edge of the water, a fine day Pack up and prepare to load Mrs. La Roche…
The 31 Henry VIII., c. 14, which denounced death, by hanging or burning, on all who denied the doctrine of transubstantiation. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
(To). To move away very gradually, as a ship moves from the edge of the shore. Often called egg. (Anglo-Saxon, ecg, an edge; ecg-clif, is a sea cliff.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
(The). The yellow bunting; is so called from its note, deil. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Devil's BonesDevil's Arrows A B C D E F G H I J K L…
Playing cards. A Presbyterian phrase, used in reproof of the term King's Books, applied to a pack of cards, from the French livre des quatre rois (the book of the four kings). Also called…
Micah Chapter 3 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil…
(Encyclopedia) bow and arrow, weapon consisting of two parts; the bow is made of a strip of flexible material, such as wood, with a cord linking the two ends of the strip to form a tension from which…
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