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Brewer's: Albino-poets
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (chap. viii.), speaks of Kirke White as one of the “sweet Albino poets,” whose “plaintive song” he admires. It implies some…2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…Sara Teasedale: Sappho II
Sappho IIOh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep? These long Egyptian noons bend down your head Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee. There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled, Dark…Child Stars at the Oscars
by Beth Rowen Related Links Academy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Daytime Emmy Awards Top 10 Kids Movies Released in 2006 Top 10 Kids Movies of All Time Each winter,…Corresponding Members of the Anti-Slavery Convention of Women
List of Delegates to the Convention.Appendix.Corresponding Members.Amelia A. Bowen, Woodstock, Conn.Harriet A. Burleigh, Stonington, Conn.Maria M. Newhall, Lynn, Mass.C. Blackford…Brewer's: Nemean Games
(The). One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated at nemea, in Argolis, every alternate year, the first and third of each Olympiad. The victor's reward was at first a…Brewer's: Horse Protestant
As good a Protestant as Oliver Cromwell's horse. This expression arises in a comparison made by Cromwell respecting some person who had less discernment than his horse in the moot points…Brewer's: Fagin
An infamous Jew, who teaches boys and girls to rob with dexterity. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FagotFagged Out A B C D E F…Brewer's: Fiddleback
The name of Oliver Goldsmith's poor unfortunate pony, on which he made his country excursions. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FiddlerFiddle-faddle A B C…Brewer's: Proudfute
(Oliver). A boasting bonnet-maker of Perth. His widow is Magdalen or Maudie. (SirWalterScott: Fair Maid of Perth.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Trending
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