by WilliamBlakeThe Sick RoseThe AngelThe Fly Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away. Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me…
Running between King's Cross station in London and Edinburgh, Scotland, the Flying Scotsman was a luxury express train full of amenities. It featured a hairdressing salon, a Louis the XVI–style…
The boy in a printing-office who lifts the printed sheets off the press. He is called the fly-boy because he catches the sheets as they fly from the tympan (q.v.) immediately the frisket (…
(To). To send a begging letter to persons of a charitable reputation, or in easy circumstances, to solicit pecuniary aid, urging poverty, losses, or sickness as an excuse. (See Kite-Flying…
(To come off with). In triumph; with the flags unfurled and flying. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Flying DutchmanFly Out at A B C D E F G H I J K…
(To). To burst or break into a passion. The Latin, involvo in ... “Poor choleric Sir Brian would fly out at his coachman, his butler, or his gamekeeper, and use language ... which ... from…
(To). To open suddenly, as, “the doors flew open,” “les portes s'ouvrirent,” as they do sometimes by the force of the wind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
A spectral ship, seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and considered ominous of ill-luck. Sir Walter Scott says she was originally a vessel laden with precious metal, but a…
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