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Brewer's: Stone Soup
or St. Bernard's Soup. A beggar asked alms at a lordly mansion, but was told by the servants they had nothing to give him. “Sorry for it,” said the man, “but will you let me boil a little…Brewer's: Stone Still
Perfectly still; with no more motion than a stone. “I will not struggle; I will stand stone still.” Shakespeare: King John, iv. 1. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Stone of Stumbling
This was much more significant among the Jews than it is with ourselves. One of the Pharisaic sects, called Nikfi or “Dashers,” used to walk abroad without lifting their feet from the…Brewer's: Stone of Tongues
This was a stone given to Otnit, King of Lombardy, by his father dwarf Elberich, and had the virtue, when put into a person's mouth, of enabling him to speak perfectly any foreign language…Brewer's: Through-stone
(A). A flat gravestone, a stone coffin or sarcophagus, also a bond stone which extends over the entire thickness of a wall. In architecture, called “Perpent” or “Perpend Stones” or “…Brewer's: Trevethy Stone
St. Clear, Cornwall. A cromlech. Trevédi, in British, means a place of graves. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tria Juncta in UnoTreves A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Warning Stone
Anything that gives notice of danger. Bakers in Wiltshire and some other counties used to put a “certain pebble” in their ovens, and when the stone…Brewer's: Jacob's Stone
The stone inclosed in the coronation chair of Great Britain, brought from Scone by Edward I., and said to be the stone on which the patriarch Jacob laid his head when he dreamt about the…Brewer's: Japheth's Stone
According to tradition, Noah gave Japheth a stone which the Turks call giudëtasch and senkjedë. Whoever possesses this stone has the power of bringing rain from heaven at will. It was for…Brewer's: Corner-stone
(The). The chief corner-stone. A large stone laid at the base of a building to strengthen the two walls forming a right angle. These stones in some ancient buildings were as much as twenty…Trending
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