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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: Peregrine Pickle
The hero of Smollett's novel so called. A savage, ungrateful spendthrift; fond of practical jokes to the annoyance of others, and suffering with evil temper the misfortunes brought on by…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: Iol
(pron. Yol). The Danish word for Christmas; the same as Yule. The savage Dane At Iol more deep the mead did drain. SirW.Scott: Murmion. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…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: Ifurin
The Hades of the ancient Gauls. A dark region infested by serpents and savage beasts. Here the wicked are chained in loathsome caverns, plunged into the lairs of dragons, or subjected to a…Walt Whitman: Thoughts ("Of these years I sing")
ThoughtsPart 1Of these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions, How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Alphonso of Castile
Alphonso of CastileI, Alphonso, live and learn, Seeing Nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind; Lemons run to leaves and rind; Meagre crop of figs and limes; Shorter days and harder…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, January 6, 1806
Day 1121 Day 1123 Lewis, January 6, 1806 Monday January 6th 1806. Capt Clark set out after an early breakfast with the party in two canoes as had been concerted the last evening; Charbono…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, March 18, 1806
Day 1269 Day 1271 Clark, March 18, 1806 Tuesday March 17th 1806 Drewyer was taken last night with a violent pain in his Side. I bled him. Several of the men are complaining of being unwell…Trending
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