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Cale Young Rice: Kinchinjunga
Kinchinjunga(Which is the next highest of mountains)Cale Young RiceIO white Priest of Eternity, around Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise Of the earth's immemorial sacrifice To Brahma in…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir
by Robert Burns Highland Harry Back AgainThe Braes O' KilliecrankieThe Battle Of Sherramuir Tune-"The Cameronian Rant." "O cam ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep…Brewer's: Blue Monday
The Monday before Lent, spent in dissipation. (German, der blaue Montag.) It is said that dissipation gives everything a blue tinge. Hence “blue” means tipsy. (See Blue Devils .) Drink…Brewer's: Narrowdale Noon
(Till). To defer a matter till Narrowdale noon is to defer it indefinitely. “Christmas is coming.” Ans., “So is Narrowdale Noon.” Your ... was deferred or delayed, like Narrowdale Noon.…Brewer's: Robert le Diable
The son of Bertha and Bertramo. The former was daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and the latter was a fiend in the guise of a knight. The opera shows the struggle in Robert between the…Brewer's: Wave
The ninth wave. A notion prevails that the waves keep increasing in regular series till the maximum arrives, and then the series begins again. No doubt…Brewer's: Amaimon
(3 syl.). One of the chief devils whose dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. He might be bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth…Brewer's: Abstraction
Abstrac′tion An empty Abstraction, a mere ideality, of no practical use. Every noun is an abstraction, but the narrower genera may be raised to higher ones, till the common thread is so…Brewer's: Miserere
(4 syl.). Our fifty-first psalm is so called. One of the evening services of Lent is called misererc, because this penitential psalm is sung, after which a sermon is delivered. The under…Brewer's: Mishna
Instruction. A word applied by the Jews to the oral law. It is divided into six parts: (1) agriculture; (2) Sabbaths, fasts, and festivals; (3) marriage and divorce; (4) civil and penal…Trending
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