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Brewer's: Bow

(to rhyme with flow ). (Anglo-Saxon, boga; verb, bogan or bugan, to arch.) Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed. Have everything ready before you begin. He has a famous bow up at…

Brewer's: Marks in Grammar and Printing

Printers' marks on the first page of a sheet are called Signatures. (See Letters At Foot Of Page.) Serifs are the strokes which finish off Roman letters, top and bottom. A, B, C, are “…

Across the Great Divide

Chapter 13 Chapter 15 Across the Great Divide Captain Clark had now left the water-shed of the Missouri behind him, and was pressing on, over a broken, hilly country, to the…

Lewis & Clark: Across the Great Divide

by NoahBrooks From the Minnetarees to the ShoshoneesDown the Pacific SlopeAcross the Great Divide Captain Clark had now left the water-shed of the Missouri behind him…

Camp Laurence

Camp LaurenceBeth was postmistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it regularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door and distributing the mail. One…

Lewis & Clark: A the Heart of the Continent

by NoahBrooks To the Great Falls of the MissouriAt the Sources of the MissouriA the Heart of the Continent Captain Clark continued his observations up the long series of…

The Iliad of Homer: The Embassy to Achilles

The Second Battle, and the Dis... The Night-Adventure of Diomed ... The Embassy to Achilles. Agamemnon, after the last day's defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and…