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Brewer's: Golden Ass
The romance of Apuleius, written in the second century, and called the golden because of its excellency. It contains the adventures of Lucian, a young man who, being acciden…Brewer's: Golden Age
The best age; as the golden age of innocence, the golden age of literature. Chronologers divide the time between Creation and the birth of Christ into ages; Hesiod describes…Brewer's: Egg.
Eggs. (Anglo-Saxon, æg.) A bad egg. A bad speculation; a man who promises, but whose promises are pie-crust. A duck's egg, in cricket. (See Duck.) Golden eggs. Great profi…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: A
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 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 A A1 A.B. A.B.C. A B C Book A.B.C. Process A.E.I.O.U. A.U.C. Aaro…Brewer's: Round as a Ball;
... as an apple, as an orange, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RoundaboutRound Table A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Brewer's: Alcinoo poma dare
(to give apples to Alcinous). To carry coals to Newcastle; sending cider to Herefordshire. The orchards of Alcinous, King of Corcyra (Corfu), were famous for their fruits. …Brewer's: Frankum's Night
A night in June destructive to apple- and pear-trees. The tale is that one Frankum offered sacrifice in his orchard for an extra fine crop, but a blight ensued, and his tree…Brewer's: Ladon
One of the dogs of Actæon. Ladon. The dragon which guarded the apples of the Hesperides. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LadronesLadies A B…Brewer's: Newtonian Philosophy
The astronomical system at present received, together with that of universal gravitation. So called after Sir Isaac Newton, who established the former and discovered the lat…Brewer's: Hippomenes
(4 syl.). A Grecian prince, who ran a race with Atalanta for her hand in marriage. He had three golden apples, which he dropped one by one, and which the lady stopped to pic…Trending
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