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Punctuation: The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the Period
The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the PeriodPunctuationPunctuation MattersPeriod, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark: The End of the LineThe Comma: A Major PlayerThe Semicolon: Love Child of…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, January 6, 1806
Day 1121 Day 1123 Lewis, January 6, 1806 Monday January 6th 1806. Capt Clark set out after an early breakfast with the party in two canoes as had been concerted the last evening; Charbono…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, January 17, 1806
Day 1148 Day 1150 Lewis, January 17, 1806 Saturday January 17th 1806 This morning we were visited by Comowool and 7 of the Clatsops our nearest neighbours, who left us again in the evening…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, January 17, 1806
Day 1149 Day 1151 Clark, January 17, 1806 Sunday 17th January 1806 This morning we were visited by Comowool and 7 of the Clatsops our nearest neighbours, who left us again in the evening.…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Ballad Third
by Robert Burns Ballad Second-Election DayInscription For An Altar Of IndependenceBallad Third John Bushby's Lamentation. Tune-"Babes in the Wood." 'Twas in the seventeen hunder…Brewer's: Kendal Green
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…Brewer's: Kohol
or Kohl. Russell says, “The Persian women blacken the inside of their eyelids with a powder made of black Kohol.” And others mix the Kohol's jetty dye To give that long, dark languish to…Brewer's: Æson's Bath
Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, p. 67) rationalises this into “hair-dye.” The reference is to Medea renovating Æson, father of Jason, with the juices of a concoction made of sundry…Brewer's: John Tamson's Man
a henpecked husband: one ordered here, and ordered there and ordered everywhere. Tameson —i.e. spiritless, the slave even of a Tame-son. “`The deil's in the wife!' said Cuddie. `Dye think…Brewer's: Blue Devils
or A fit of the blues. A fit of spleen, low spirits. Roach and Esquirol affirm, from observation, that indigo dyers are especially subject to melancholy; and that those who dye scarlet are…Trending
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