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Brewer's: Leap Year

Every year divisible by four. Such years occur every fourth year. In ordinary years the day of the month which falls on Monday this year, will fall on Tuesday next year, and Wednesday the…

Brewer's: Similes

in common use: BALD as a coot. BITTER as gall,soot. BLACK as ink, as a coal, as a crow BLIND as a bat, a beetle, a mole. BLUNT as a hedge-hook. BRAVE as Alexander. BRIGHT as silver.…

Fantastic Fables (1899 Edition)

by Ambrose Bierce Contents The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot Two Kings An Officer and a Thug…

Baron Munchausen: A Second Trip to the Moon.

by Rudolph Erich Raspe Voyage eastward-The Baron i... The Baron crosses the Thame...A Second Trip to the Moon. A second visit (but an accidental one) to the moon-The ship driven…

The Song of Hiawatha: Vocabulary

Vocabulary Adjidau'mo, the red squirrel Ahdeek', the reindeer Ahmeek', the beaver Annemee'kee, the thunder Apuk'wa. a bulrush Baim-wa'wa, the sound of the thunder Bemah'gut, the grape-…

Brewer's: Bull

One of the twelve signs of the Zodiac (April 20 to May 21). The time for ploughing, which in Egypt was performed by oxen or bulls. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the…