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Fall Film Preview, 1998, Part 1
Edward Furlong in John Waters' Pecker But don't look for any modern cowboys this fall. They've been replaced, for the most part, by an assortment of amiable kooks and wide-eyed bumpkins. In fact…Madison Cawein: The Path to the Woods
The Path to the WoodsMadison CaweinIts friendship and its carelessness Did lead me many a mile, Through goat's-rue, with its dim caress, And pink and pearl-white smile; Through crowfoot, with…William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene II
Scene IIA forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heardEnter Titus Andronicus, with Hunters, &c., Marcus, Lucius, Quintus, and MartiusTitus AndronicusThe hunt is up, the morn is bright…Brewer's: Lenten
Frugal, stinted, as food in Lent. Shakespeare has “lenten entertainment” (Hamlet, ii. 2); “a lenten answer” (Twelfth Night, i. 5); “a lenten pye” (Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4). “And with a…Brewer's: Buzzard
(The) is meant for Dr. Burnett, whose figure was lusty. “The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best.” Dryden: Hind and Panter, part iii. 1121. Buzzard called hawk by courtesy. It is a…Brewer's: Chariot of the Gods
So the Greeks called Sierra Leone, in Africa, a ridge of mountains of great height. A sierra means a saw, and is applied to a ridge of peaked mountains. Her palmy forests, mingling with…Brewer's: Curtana
The sword of Edward the Confessor, which, having no point, was the emblem of mercy. The royal sword of England was so called to the reign of Henry III. But when Curtana will not do the…Brewer's: Dionysos
The Greek name of Bacchus (q.v.). Father Zeus (Jupiter). Feasts of Bacchus in Rome, Bromalia or Brumalia, in March and September. Mother Semele, daughter of Cadmus Nurse Brisa. Owls…Brewer's: Partlet
The hen in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, and in the tale of Reynard the Fox (fourteenth century). So called from the partlet or loose collar of “the doublet,” referring to the frill-like…Brewer's: Shibboleth
The password of a secret society; the secret by which those of a party know each other. The Ephraimites quarrelled with Jephthah, and Jephthah gathered together the men of Gilead and…Trending
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