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Brewer's: Pine-bender
(The). Sinis, the Corinthian robber; so called because he used to fasten his victims to two pinetrees bent towards the earth, and then leave them to be rent asunder by the rebound.…1996 Outer Critics Circle Awards
The 46th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were presented on May 24, 1996, at New York's venerable Sardi's restaurant. The Outer Critics Circle includes theater writers who review New York…Brewer's: Bloom
From bloom to bloom. A floral rent. The Lord of the Manor received and rose or gillyflower, on the Feast of John the Baptist, yearly (July 5th, O. S.). (See Notes and Queries, Feb. 13th,…Brewer's: Moonlight Flitting
(A). A clandestine removal of one's furniture during the night, to avoid paying one's rent or having the furniture seized in payment thereof. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Mynian Sails
The ship Argo; so called because its crew were natives of Mynia. When his black whirlwinds o'er the ocean rolled And rent the Mynian sails. Camoens: Lusiad, bk. vi. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: F's
The three f's. Fixed tenure, Fair rent, F ree sale. The platform of the Irish League in 1880. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fa'F.O.B. A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Kain Hens
Hens that a tenant pays to his landlord, as a sort of rent in kind (ill-fed hens). (GuyMannering, v.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894KaiserKailyal A B C…Brewer's: Farm
means food; so called because anciently the tenant was required to provide the landlord with food by way of rent. (Anglo-Saxon, fearme, food.) To farm taxes is the French affermer (to let…Ralp Waldo Emerson: The Poet, I
IRight upward on the road of fame With sounding steps the poet came; Born and nourished in miracles, His feet were shod with golden bells, Or where he stepped the soil did peal As if the dust…Poem: Gerontion
Poem 2 Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for…Trending
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