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Famous Shakespearean Actors

From John Barrymore to Emma Thompson   Sir Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet Related Links Shakespeare on Film Royal Shakespeare Company Quiz: Shakespeare's Life and Times  …

Brewer's: Havre

(France). A contraction of Le havre de notre dame de grace. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HawkHavock A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…

Brewer's: Hawker's News

or “Piper's News.” News known to all the world. “Le secret de polichinelle. ” (German hoker, a higgler or hawker.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Horus

The Egyptian day-god, represented in hieroglyphics by a sparrow-hawk, which bird was sacred to him. He was son of Osiris and Isis, but his birth being premature he was weak in the lower…

Brewer's: Tassel-Gentle

The tiercel is the male of the goshawk. So called because it is a tierce or third less than the female. This is true of all birds of prey. The tiercel-gentle was the class of hawk…

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