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Parts of Speech: Pronouns: Pinch Hitters
Pronouns: Pinch HittersParts of SpeechGrammarNouns: Prime-Time PlayersVerbs: All the Right MovesConjunctions: The Ties That BindPrepositions: Good Things Come in Small PackagesAdjectives: Happy…William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act III, Scene VI
Scene VIWales. Before the cave of BelariusEnter Imogen, in boy's clothesImogenI see a man's life is a tedious one: I have tired myself, and for two nights together Have made the ground my bed…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: February 1, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark January 31, 1806February 2, 1806February 1, 1806 Saturday February 1st 1806. This morning a party of four men set out with Joseph Fields; Sergt.…Brewer's: Aleria
(in Orlando Furioso). One of the Amazons, and the best beloved of the ten wives of Guido the Savage. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AlertAlectromancy A B…Brewer's: Boies
(2 syl.). Priests of the savages of Florida. Each priest has his special idol, which must be invoked by the fumes of tobacco. (American Indian mythology.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Myrmidons of the Law
Bailiffs, sheriffs' officers, and other law menials. Any rough fellow employed to annoy another is the employer's myrmidon. The Myrmidons were a people of Thessaly who followed Achilles to…Brewer's: Northern Lights
The Aurora Boreä'lis, ascribed by the northern savages to the merriment of the ghosts. (See Aurora.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Northern…Brewer's: Leatherstocking
(Natty). The nickname of Natty Bumpo (q.v.), in Cooper's novel, called The Pioneers. A half-savage and half-Christian hero of American wild life. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Brewer's: Locksley Hall
Tennyson has a poem so called. The lord of Locksley Hall fell in love with his cousin Amy, but Amy married a rich clown. The lord of Locksley Hall, indignant at this, declares he will…Brewer's: Yahoo
A savage; a very ill-mannered person. In Gulliver's Travels the Yahoos are described as brutes with human forms and vicious propensities. They are subject to the Houyhnhnms, or horses with…Trending
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