Search

Search results

Displaying 321 - 330

Brewer's: Grin and Bear It

(You must), or You must grin and bide it, for resistance is hopeless. You may make up a face, if you like, but you cannot help yourself. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Rendezvous

The place to which you are to repair, a meeting, a place of muster or call. Also used as a verb. (French, rendez, betake; vous, yourself.) His house is a grand rendezvous of the élite of…

Brewer's: Silver Pheasant

(A). A beautiful young lady of the high aristocracy. “One would think you were a silver pheasant, you give yourself such airs.” —Ouida: Under Two Flags. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Chemistry: Succeeding Where Others Have Failed

Succeeding Where Others Have FailedChemistryWhy Study Chemistry?Why Do We Need Chemistry?What Have I Gotten Myself Into?This Stuff Is Really Fun!Who Invented Chemistry?Succeeding Where Others Have…

Flatland: Of the Nature of Flatland

by Edwin A. Abbott Of the Climate and Houses in FlatlandOf the Nature of Flatland I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy…