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Brewer's: Key-cold
Deadly cold, lifeless. A key, on account of its coldness, is still sometimes employed to stop bleeding at the nose. Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Pale ashes of the house of…Brewer's: Key of the Mediterranean
The fortress of Gibraltar; so called because it commands the entrance thereof. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Key of RussiaKey of a Cipher A B C D E F…Brewer's: Key of Russia
Smolensk, on the Dnieper. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Key of SpainKey of the Mediterranean A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Brewer's: Key of Spain
Ciudad Rodrigo, taken by the Duke of Wellington, who defeated the French there in 1812. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894KeysKey of Russia A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Key-stone
The Key-stone State. Pennsylvania; so called from its position and importance. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Key and the BibleKey-cold A B C D E F G…Brewer's: King's Keys
The crow-bars, hatchets, and hammers used by sheriffs' officers to force doors and locks. (Law phrase.) “The door, framed to withstand attacks from exciseman, constables, and other…Alicia Keys Biography
Alicia Keyssinger, songwriterBorn: 1981Birthplace: New York City The classically trained singer and pianist burst onto the music scene in 2001 with the release of her debut album, Songs in A…Key to Pronunciation Symbols
Key to Pronunciation Symbols u sofa (sO ´fu ), ite m (I ´tu m), easi ly (E ´zu lE ), canno n (kan´u n), circu s (sÛr´ku s) a a ct (akt), ba t (bat) A a pe (A p), fai l (fA l), day (dA…Rich, Adrienne
(Encyclopedia) Rich, Adrienne, 1929–2012, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Radcliffe, 1951. From the 1970s her exquisitely wrought verse became looser and more personal as her works increasingly…Paton, Alan
(Encyclopedia) Paton, AlanPaton, Alanpāˈtən [key], 1903–88, South African novelist. A devoted leader in the struggle to end the oppression of the South African blacks, he served (1935–47) as…Trending
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