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Cale Young Rice: Kinchinjunga
Kinchinjunga(Which is the next highest of mountains)Cale Young RiceIO white Priest of Eternity, around Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise Of the earth's immemorial sacrifice To Brahma in…William Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene IV
Scene IVRousillon. The Count's palaceEnter Countess and StewardCountessAlas! and would you take the letter of her? Might you not know she would do as she has done, By sending me a letter?…Brewer's: Hospital
From the Latin hospes (a guest), being originally an inn or house of entertainment for pilgrims; hence our words host (one who entertains), hospitality (the entertainment given), and…Brewer's: Hospitallers
First applied to those whose duty it was to provide hospitium (lodging and entertainment) for pilgrims. The most noted institution of the kind was at Jerusalem, which gave its name to an…Brewer's: Banquet
used at one time to mean the dessert. Thus, Taylor, in the Pennyless Pilgrim, says: “Our first and second course being threescore dishes at one boord, and after that, always a banquet.” (…Brewer's: Knights of Malta
or Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. Some time after the first crusade (1042), some Neapolitan merchants built at Jerusalem a hospital for sick pilgrims and a church which they…Brewer's: Agave
(3 syl.). or American aloe From the Greek, agauos, admirable. The Mexicans plant fences of Agave round their wigwams, as a defence against wild beasts. The Mahometans of Egypt regard it as…Brewer's: Alpleich
or “Elfenreigen” (the weird spirit-song), that music which some hear before death. Faber refers to it in his Pilgrims of the Night. Hark, hark, my soul! Angelic songs are swelling. Pope…Brewer's: Ivanhoe
I'vanhoe (3 syl.). Sir Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, is the disinherited son of Cedric of Rotherwood. He is first introduced as a pilgrim, in which guise he enters his father's hall, where…Brewer's: Greeks
in the New Testament mean Hellenists, or naturalised Jews in foreign countries; those not naturalised were called Aramæan Jews in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. “I will praise God that…Trending
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