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Brewer's: Renarder
(French). To vomit, especially after too freely indulging intoxicating drinks. Our word fox means also to be tipsy. Il luy visite la machoire, Quand l'autre luy renarde aux yeux. Le baume…Brewer's: Rustam
The Deev-bend and Persian Hercules, famous for his victory over the white dragon named Asdeev. He was the son of Zâl, prince of Sedjistan. The exploits attributed to him must have been the…The Sun
All the stars, including our Sun, are gigantic balls of superheated gas, kept hot by atomic reactions in their centers. In our Sun, this atomic reaction is hydrogen fusion: four hydrogen…2 Maccabees: 4
2 Maccabees Chapter 4 1 This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he ha terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of…The Trial of the Axes, During which Ulysses Reveals Himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius - The Odyssey
Ulysses Cannot Sleep--Penelop... The Killing of the Suitors--T... The Trial of the Axes, During which Ulysses Reveals Himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius Minerva now put it in…Brewer's: Friendship
(Examples of): Achilles and Patroclos, Greeks. Amys and Amylion (q.v.), Feudal History. Baccio (Fra Bartholomew) and Mariotto,artists. Basil and Gregory. Burke and Dr. Johnson. Christ and…Brewer's: Fair
(The). Charles IV., King of France, le Bel (1294, 1322-1328). Philippe IV. of France, le Bel (1268, 1285-1314). Fair as Lady Done. A great Cheshire family that has long occupied a…Brewer's: Poplar
(The). (Latin, populus, from populus, the people.) Being symbolical of the people, both because its leaves are dark on one side and white on the other, and also because they are never…Brewer's: Titan
The sun, so called by Ovid and Virgil. And fleckëd Darkness like a drunkard reels From forth Day's path and Titan's flery wheels. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3. The Titans. The…Brewer's: Yuletide
has been held as a sacred festival by numberless nations. Christians hold December 25th as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. China on the same day celebrates the birth of Buddha, son…Trending
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