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Philip Agee Biography
former CIA officerDied: January 7, 2008 (Havana, Cuba) Best Known as: a former CIA officer who turned against the agency A former CIA officer who turned…Coleridge: Youth and Age
Dejection: an OdeWork without HopeYouth and Age Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope…The Devil's Dictionary: Age
by Ambrose Bierce AFRICANAGITATORAGE -n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit…Shakespeare Through the Ages
The Bard is inescapable. If youve been to an English-speaking secondary school, theres an overwhelming chance that you or your loved ones have been exposed to hefty doses of Shakespeare.…Brewer's: Brazen Age
The age of war and violence. It followed the silver age. To this next came in course the brazen age, A warlike offspring, prompt to bloody rage, Not impious yet. Hard steel succeeded then…Brewer's: Dark Ages
The era between the death of Charlemagne and the close of the Carlovingian dynasty. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dark ContinentDark A B C D E F G H…Brewer's: Stone Age
(The). The period when stone implements were used. It preceded the bronze age Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stone BlindStone A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Age of Animals
An old Celtic rhyme, put into modern English, says: Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse; Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man; Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer;…Brewer's: To Age as accords
To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here “Age” is from the Latin agere, to do. “To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it ... to “age as accords.”” —Sir…Brewer's: The Age of the Bishops
The ninth century. (Hallam: Middle Ages.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Age of the PopesAge of Women A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Trending
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