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Day 899 Day 901 Lewis, September 20, 1805 Friday September 20th 1805. This morning my attention was called to a species of bird which I had never seen before. It was reather larger than a…
(Anglo-Saxon lást, a footstep, a shoemaker's last.) The cobbler should stick to his last (“Ne sutor ultra cre&pacute;idam”). Apelles having executed a famous painting, exposed it to…
The fairy shoemaker. (Irish leith-bhrogan, from leith-brog, one-shoe maker, so called because he is always seen working at a single shoe.) Do you not catch the tiny clamour, Busy click of…
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or Frère. A friar not in orders. (See Father.) Brother (So-and-so). A fellow-barrister. Brother Benedict. A married man. (See Benedict.) Brother Birch. A fellow-school-master. Brother…
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