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Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: B
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B B. C. B. and S B. K. S B Flats B.'s B. of B. K Baal-Peor Baal Samin Baal…The Hungry Stones: The Victory
by Rabindranath Tagore The Hungry StonesOnce There Was a KingThe Victory She was the Princess Ajita. And the court poet of King Narayan had never seen her. On the day he recited a new…Sports Stars: A - C
Hank Aaron Jim Abbott Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Freddy Adu Andre Agassi Benny Agbayani Troy Aikman Marv Albert Tenley Albright Amy Alcott Grover Cleveland (Pete…Brewer's: Hang by a Thread
(To). To be in a very precarious position. The allusion is to the sword of Damocles. (See Damocles Sword.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hang in the Bell…Brewer's: Belladonna
(Italian, beautiful lady ). This name was given to the Deadly Nightshade, from a practice once common among ladies of touching their eyes with it to make the pupils large and lustrous.…Brewer's: Bellaston
(Lady ). A profligate, whose conduct and conversation are a life-like photograph of the court “beauties” of Louis XV. (Fielding: Tom Jones.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Bellefontaine
(Benedict ). The most wealthy farmer of Grand Pré ( Nova Scotia), and father of Evangeline. When the inhabitants of his village were exiled, and he was about to embark, he died of a broken…Brewer's: Bessemer Iron
Pig-iron refined, and converted into steel or malleable iron by passing currents of air through the molten metal, according to a process discovered by Sir H. Bessemer, and patented in 1856…Brewer's: Bessus
A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BestBessie Bell and Mary…1957 Tony Awards
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