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A Boy's Will: October
by Robert Frost A Line-storm SongMy ButterflyOctober He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they were. O HUSHED October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the…A Boy's Will: Reluctance
by Robert Frost My ButterflyReluctance OUT through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and…A Boy's Will: Stars
by Robert Frost A Late WalkStorm FearStars There is no oversight of human affairs. HOW countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees…Brewer's: Boy Bachelor
William Wotton, D.D., was admitted at St. Catherine's Hall before he was ten, and took his B.A. when he was twelve and a half. (1666-1726.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Boy Bishop
St. Nicholas. From his cradle he is said to have manifested marvellous indications of piety, and was therefore selected for the patron saint of boys. (Fourth century.) Boy Bishop. The…Brewer's: Fly-boy
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 (…Brewer's: Minden Boys
The 20th Foot, so called from their noted bravery at Minden, in Prussia, August 1, 1759. Now called “The Lancashire Fusiliers.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Loblolly Boy
(A.) A surgeon's mate in the navy. Here lob is the Welsh llob, a dolt, and loblolly boy is a dolt not yet out of his spoon-meat or baby-pap. “Loblolly-boy is a person on board a man-of-war…Brewer's: Stupid Boy
St. Thomas Aquinas, nicknamed the Dumb Ox by his school-fellows. (1224-1274.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894StyStumped Out A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Swiss Boy
(The). Music by Moscheles. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Swiss Family RobinsonSwiss A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…Trending
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