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Brewer's: Picture
A model, or beau-ideal, as, He is the picture of health; A perfect picture of a house. (Latin, pictura.) The Picture. Massinger has borrowed the plot of this play from Bandello of…Brewer's: Pleasure
It was Xerxes who offered a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure, Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PlebeiansPleased as Punch A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Poets
(Greek, poieo, to make). Skalds of Scandinavia (etym., scalla, to sing, Swedish, etc.) Minnesingers of the Holy Empire (Germany), love-singers. Troubadours of Provenee in France (troubar,…Brewer's: Primrose
(George). Son of the worthy Vicar of Wakefield. He went to Amsterdam to teach the people English, but forgot that he could not do so till he knew something of Dutch himself. (Goldsmith:…Brewer's: Prince
The Latin principes formed one of the great divisions of the Roman infantry; so called because they were originally the first to begin the fight. After the Hastati were instituted, this…Brewer's: Last Words
(See Ding Syings.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Last of the FathersLast Man A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Lear
(King). A legendary king of Britain, who in his old age divided his kingdom between Goneril and Regan, two of his daughters, who professed great love for him. These two daughters drove the…Brewer's: Letters
Their proportionate use is as follows: E . 1,000 H .. 540 F .. 236 K .. 88 T .. 770 R .. 528 W .. 190 J .. 55 A .. 728 D .. 392 Y .. 184 Q .. 50 I .. 704 L .. 360 P .. 168 X .. 46 S .. 680…Brewer's: Life
(Anglo-Saxon, lif.) Drawn from life. Drawn or described from some existing person or object. For life. As long as life continues. For the life of me. True as I am alive. Even if my life…Brewer's: Lincoln
A contraction of Lindumcolonia. Lindum was an old British town, called Llyn-dune (the fen-town). If we had not known the Latin name, we should have given the etymology Llyn-collyne (the…Trending
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