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Brewer's: Action Sermon
A sacramental sermon (in the Scots Presbyterian Church). “I returned home about seven, and addressed myself towards my Action Sermon, Mrs. Olivant.” —E. Irving. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Backbite
(To) To slander behind one's back. “The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager.” —p. 193. W. Irving: Traveller, Buckthorn Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Man in Black
(The). Supposed to be Goldsmith's father. (Citizen of the World.) Washington Irving has a tale with the same title. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man in…Brewer's: Geoffrey Crayon
The hypothetical author of the Sketch Book. Washington Irving, of New York (1783-1859). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894GeologyGentleman of Paper and Wax A…Brewer's: Irvingites
(3 syl.). The self-styled Catholic Apostolic Church, founded by the Rev. Edward Irving in 1829; they believed in the gift of tongues. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Doctor Squintum
George Whitefield, so called by Foote in his farce entitled The Minor. (1714-1770.) Theodore Hook applied the same sobriquet to the Rev. Edward Irving, who had an obliquity of the eyes. (…Brewer's: Knickerbockers
Loose knee-breeches, worn by boys, cyclists, sportsmen, tourists, etc. So named from George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's book referred to above. In these illustrations…2001-02 Detroit Pistons Team Stats
Gm FG% Tpts PPG RPG APG Jerry Stackhouse 76 .397 1629 21.4 4.1 5.3 Clifford Robinson 80 .425 1166 14.6 4.8 2.5 Corliss Williamson 78…Brewer's: Caleb Quotem
A parish clerk or jack-of-all-trades, in Colman's play called The Review, or Wags of Windsor, which first appeared in 1808. Colman borrowed the character from a farce by Henry Lee (1798)…Brewer's: Chop-House
(A). An eating-house where chops and steaks are served. “John Bull ... would set up a chop-house at the very gates of paradise.” —Washington Irving: vol. i. chap. vi. p. 61. A Chinese…Trending
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