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Brewer's: Keyne
(St.). The well of St. Keyne, Cornwall, has a strange superstition attached to it, which is this: “If the bridegroom drinks therefrom before the bride, he will be master of his house; but…Brewer's: Leather
Nothing like leather My interest is the best nostrum. A town, in danger of a siege, called together a council of the chief inhabitants to know what defence they recommended. A mason…Brewer's: Corineus
(3 syl.). A mythical hero in the suite of Brute, who conquered the giant Goëm'agot, for which achievement the whole western horn of England was allotted him. He called it Corinea, and the…Brewer's: Dragon Slayers
(1) St. Philip the Apostle is said to have destroyed a huge dragon at Hierapolis, in Phrygia. (2) St. Martha killed the terrible dragon called Tarasque at Aix (la Chapelle). (3) St.…Brewer's: Lydford Law
is, punish first and try afterwards. Lydford, in the county of Devon, was a fortified town, in which was an ancient castle, where were held the courts of the Duchy of Cornwall. Offenders…Brewer's: Tolmen
(in French, Dolmen). An immense mass of stone placed on two or more vertical ones, so as to admit a passage between them. (Celtic, tol or dol, table; men, stone.) The Constantine Tolmen,…Brewer's: Tre, Pol, Pen
By their Tre, their Pol, and Pen, Ye shall know the Cornish men.' The extreme east of Cornwall is noted for Tre, the extreme west for Pol, the centre for Pen. On December 19th, 1891, the…Brewer's: Wrath's Hole
(Cornwall). The legend is that Bolster, a gigantic wrath or evil spirit, paid embarrassing attention to St. Agnes, who told him she would listen to his…Brewer's: Fraserian Group
(The) consists of twenty-seven persons: Maginn. On his right hand, Washington Irving, Mahony, Gleig, Sir E. Brydges, Carlyle, and Count d'Orsay. On his left hand, Barry Cornwall, Southey,…Brewer's: Modred
in the romance of The Round Table, is represented as the treacherous knight. He revolted from his Uncle Arthur, whose wife he seduced, was mortally wounded in the battle of Camlan, in…Trending
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