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Brewer's: Chalk
I'll chalk out your path for you- i.e. lay it down or plan it out as a carpenter or ship-builder plans out his work with a piece of chalk. I can walk a chalk as well as you. I am no more…Brewer's: Chalks
I beat him by long chalks. Thoroughly. In allusion to the ancient custom of making merit marks with chalk, before lead pencils were so common. Walk your chalks. Get you gone. Lodgings…Brewer's: Long Chalk
(A) or Long Chalks He beat me by a long chalk or by long chalks. By a good deal; by many marks. The allusion is to the game of dominoes, where the notation is made by chalk on a table.…Brewer's: Walk Chalks
An ordeal used on board ship as a test of drunkenness. Two parallel lines being chalked on the deck, the supposed delinquent must walk between them…Brewer's: Chalk and Cheese
I know the difference between chalk and cheese. Between what is worthless and what is valuable, between a counterfeit and a real article. Of course, the resemblance of chalk to cheese has…Kemble, Sarah
(Encyclopedia) Kemble, Sarah: see Siddons, Sarah Kemble.Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, duchess of
(Encyclopedia) Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, duchess of, 1660–1744, confidante of Queen Anne of England. Born Sarah Jennings, she was a childhood friend of Princess Anne. In 1677 she married John…Churchill, Sarah
(Encyclopedia) Churchill, Sarah: see Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, duchess of.Jennings, Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
(Encyclopedia) Jennings, Sarah, duchess of Marlborough: see Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, duchess of.Sarah Lawrence College
(Encyclopedia) Sarah Lawrence College, at Bronxville, N.Y.; primarily for women; chartered 1926, opened 1928 as Sarah Lawrence College for Women; renamed 1947. It is noted for its creative arts…Trending
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