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Snow-White and Rose-Red
Snow-White and Rose-Red There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Ode For General Washington's Birthday
by Robert Burns It Was A' For Our Rightfu' KingInscription To Miss Graham Of FintryOde For General Washington's Birthday No Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Aeolian I awake…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, June 5, 1805
Day 699 Day 701 Lewis, June 5, 1805 Wednesday June 5th 1805. This morning was cloudy and so could that I was obleged to have recourse to a blanket coat in order to keep myself comfortable…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Spectral Horseman
by Percy Bysshe Shelley FragmentMelody to a Scene of Former TimesThe Spectral Horseman What was the shriek that struck Fancy's ear As it sate on the ruins of time that is past? Hark! it…Brewer's: Black Game
Heath-fowl; in contradistinction to red game, as grouse. The male bird is called a blackcock. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black GenevanBlack Friday A B…Brewer's: Briar-root Pipe
A pipe made from the root-wood of the large heath (bruyère ), which grows in the south of France. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BribociBriareos A B C D…Brewer's: Heathen
A dweller on a heath or common. Christian doctrines would not reach these remote people till long after they had been accepted in towns, and even villages. (Anglo-Saxon, hæthen, hæth. (See…Brewer's: Moll Cutpurse
Mary Frith, a woman of masculine vigour, who not unfrequently assumed man's attire. She was a notorious thief and cutpurse, who once attacked General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath, for which…Brewer's: Marsham
(Men of). Those who committed the offence of felling the thorns, etc., in 1646, upon Marsham Heath, Norfolk. The inhabitants of Marshall and tenants of the manor petitioned against the…Brewer's: Ceres
(2 syl.). Corn. Ceres was the Roman name of Mother-Earth, the protectress of agriculture and of all the fruits of the earth. “Dark frowning heaths grow bright with Ceres' store.” Thomson:…Trending
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