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Brewer's: Mount Zion
The Celestial City or Heaven. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress.) “I am come from the City of Destruction, and am going to Mount Zion.” (Part i.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Gauntgrim
(g hard). The wolf. “For my part (said he), I don't wonder at my cousin's refusing Bruin the bear and Gauntgrim the wolf. ... Bruin is always in the sulks, and Gauntgrim always in a…Brewer's: Interpreter
(Mr.). The Holy Spirit personified, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. He is lord of a house a little way beyond the Wicket Gate. Here Christian was kindly entertained and shown many…Brewer's: Delectable Mountains
(The), in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, are a range of mountains from which the “Celestial City” may be seen. They are in Immanuel's land, and are covered with sheep, for which Immanuel had…Brewer's: Despair
The Giant Despair, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, lived in “Doubting Castle.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DessertDesdemona A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Doubting Castle
The castle of the giant Despair, in which Christian and Hopeful were incarcerated, but from which they escaped by means of the key called “Promise.” (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress.) Source…Brewer's: Englentyne
(3 syl.). The Nonne or Prioress of Chaucer's pilgrims. An admirable character sketch. (Canterbury Tales; Prologue, 118-164.) (See Eloi.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Evangelist
in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, represents the effectual preacher of the Gospel, who opens the gate of life to Christian. (See Wyoming.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Greatheart
(Mr.). The guide of Christiana and her family to the Celestial City. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, ii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894GreavesGreatest A B…Brewer's: Hadji
A pilgrim, a Mahometan who has made the Hadj or pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb at Mecca. Every Hadji is entitled to wear a green turban. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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