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Brewer's: Minuit
(2 syl.). “Enfants de la messe de minuit, ” pickpockets. Cotgrave gives “night-walking rakehells, such as haunt these nightly rites only to rob and play the knaves.” Source: Dictionary…Candide: Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France
What Befell Candide and Marti... What Happened to Candide and ... Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France At length they descried…Guide to Spelling: Hooked on Phonics: If U Cn Reed This …
If U Cn Reed This …Guide to Spelling: Hooked on PhonicsIntroductionIf U Cn Reed This …Quick and Dirty Tricks of the TradeAttaching Prefixes and Suffixes: Bits and PiecesContractions: Suck It InFollow…The Problem of Concurrent Taxation
The Problem of Concurrent Taxationby The following speech by Patrick Henry was delivered to the Virginia ratifying convention, June 5, 1788.See also Federalist No. 34I never will give up the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1792
by Robert Burns 179117931792ContentsI do Confess Thou Art Sae FairLines On Fergusson, The PoetThe Weary Pund O' TowWhen She Cam' Ben She BobbedScroggam, My DearieMy Collier LaddieSic A Wife As…All-CFL Team
The All-CFL team as selected by a Football Writers of Canada panel. Holdovers from the 1995 team are in bold type.PosOffensePosDefenseWRJoe Rogers, Ott.EGrant Carter, Mon.WREddie Brown, Edm.…Brewer's: Bail
(French, bailler). To deliver up. Common bail or bail below. A bail given to the sheriff, after arresting a person, to guarantee that the defendant will appear in court at any day and…Brewer's: Barnwell
(George) The chief character in a prose tragedy, so called, by George Lillo. He was a London apprentice, who fell in with a wanton in Shoreditch, named Sarah Millwood, whom he visited,…AFC East
1999 NFL Preview AFC East • NFC East AFC Central • NFC Central AFC West • NFC West New York Jets - Well that didn't take long, did it? In just two seasons, coach Bill Parcells took a team…Brewer's: Lamia
A female phantom, whose name was used by the Greeks and Romans as a bugbear to children. She was a Libyan queen beloved by Jupiter, but robbed of her offspring by the jealous Juno; and in…