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Brewer's: Venom

The venom is in the tail. The real difficulty is the conclusion. The allusion is to the scorpion, which has a sting in its tail. The French say, “It is always most difficult to flay the…

Brewer's: Pallas

A name of Minerva, sometimes called Pallas Minerva. According to fable, Pallas was one of the Titans, of giant size, killed by Minerva, who flayed him, and used his skin for armour; whence…

Micah: 3

Micah Chapter 3 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil…

Brewer's: Bartholomew

(St.). The symbol of this saint is a knife, in allusion to the knife with which he was flayed alive. St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24th. Probably Bartholomew is the apostle called “…

Brewer's: Jambon

A gun, so called from its fanciful resemblance to a “betterave” or jambon. The botanical name of the root is melochia. “What would you do to me, brigand? ... Give me fifty blows of a…

Brewer's: Les Anguilles de Melun

Crying out before you are hurt. When the Mystery of St. Bartholomew was performed at Melun, one Languille took the character of the saint, but when the executioner came to “flay him alive…

Brewer's: Impossibilities

Latin phrases: Æthiopem de-albare. Arenas arare. Laterem lavare. Pumice aridius. In asino lanam. English phrases: Gathering grapes from thistles. Fetching water in a sieve. Washing a…

Brewer's: Marsyas

The Phrygian flute-player who châllenged Apollo to a contest of skill, and, being beaten by the god, was flayed alive for his presumption. From his blood arose the river so called. The…

The Koran/Sura LXXXI — The Folded Up

Sura LXXXI — The Folded Up Mecca — 29 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful WHEN the sun shall be FOLDED UP,[79] And when the stars shall fall, And when the…