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Walt Whitman: Ashes of Soldiers
Ashes of SoldiersAshes of soldiers South or North, As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought, The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes, And again the advance of the armies.…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Blight
Blight Give me truths; For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony, Blue-…2001 British Academy of Film and Television Awards
The 2001 BAFTA Awards, the British equivalent of our Oscar and Emmy awards (combined into one ceremony), were presented Feb. 25, 2001 in London. These are the film awards.…Brewer's: Samosatian Philosopher
Lucian of Samosata. (Properly Samos'a-tan.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sampford GhostSamoor A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…Brewer's: Abderitan Laughter
Abderi′tan Scoffing laughter, incessant laughter. So called from Abdera, the birthplace of Democritos, the laughing philosopher. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Gulistan
[garden of roses ]. The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Hindustan
The country of the Hindûs. (Hind [Persic] and Sind [Sanskrit] means “black,” and tan = territory is very common, as Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Farsistan, Frangistan, Koordistan [the…Brewer's: Bait
Food to entice or allure, as bait for fish. Bait for travellers is a “feed” by way of refreshment taken en passant. (Anglo-Saxon, bætan , to bait or feed.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Æginetan Sculptures
Ægine′tan Sculptures Sculptures excavated by a company of Germans, Danes, and English (1811), in the little island of Ægina. They were purchased by Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and are…Brewer's: Entangle
The Anglo-Saxon tan means a twig, and twigs smeared with birdlime were used for catching small birds, who were “en-tangled” or twigged. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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