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Amy Lowell: Number 3 on the Docket

Number 3 on the DocketThe lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They know'd real well 'twas me. Ther warn't no supposin', Ketchin'…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 11

Part 11You whoever you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-…

May 2011 Current Events: U.S. News

World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in U. S. news for the month of May 2011. See also: Current Events: Disasters & Science News, May 2011 Current Events: World…

Brewer's: Haute Claire

The sword of Oliver the Dane. (See Sword.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hautville CoitHautboy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…

Brewer's: Æginetan Sculptures

Ægine′tan Sculptures Sculptures excavated by a company of Germans, Danes, and English (1811), in the little island of Ægina. They were purchased by Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and are…

Brewer's: Doolin

of Mayence. The hero of a French romance of chivalry, and the father of Ogier the Dane. Doolin's Sword. Merveilleuse (wonderful). (See Sword.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…

Brewer's: Banquo

A Scotch general of royal extraction, who obtained several victories over the Highlanders and Danes in the reign of Donald VII. He was murdered by the order of Macbeth, and his ghost…

Brewer's: Morgue la Faye

who watched over the birth of Ogier the Dane, and after he had finished his earthly career, restored him to perpetual youth, and took him to live with her in everlasting love in the isle…

Brewer's: Nose Tax

(The). In the ninth century the Danes imposed on Irish houses a poll tax, historically called the “Nose Tax,” because those who neglected to pay the ounce of gold were punished by having…

Brewer's: Harold the Dauntless

Son of Witikind, the Dane. “He was rocked on a buckler, and fed from a blade.” He became a Christian, like his father, and married Eivir, a Danish maid, who had been his page. (SirW.Scott…