Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words That Have a Tale to Tell Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog “words with a tale to tell.”
C ONTENTSBibliographic Record NEW EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED
PHILADELPHIA: HENRY ALTEMUS, 1898
B A PPENDIXA’Beckett, Arthur W . to Aytoun, William Edmonstoune Babbago, Charles to Byron, Lord Cædmon to Cunningham, Peter Dale, Robert Wm . to Dykes, Principal James Oswald Eadie, John to Ewing, Juliana Horatia Orr Fairbairn, Principal Andrew Martin to Fullerton, Lady Georgina Gairdner, James to Guthrie, Thomas Haggard, H. Rider to Huxley, Thomas Henry Ingelow, Jean to Ingoldsby, Thomas .James I. of England to Jowett, Rev. Benjamin Kaye, Sir John William to Knox, John Laing, Samuel to Lytton, Lord Maartens, Maarten to Myers, Frederic W. H .Napier, Lieut-General Sir William Francis Patrick to Norton, Thomas O’Brien, William to Owen, Robert Dale Pain, Barry Eric Odell to Pye, Henry James “Q .” to Quincey, Thomas de Radcliffe, Anne to Russell, Sir William Howard Sackville, Thomas to Symons, Arthur Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon to Tytler, Patrick Fraser Udall, Nicholas to Udall, Nicholas Vanbrugh, Sir John to Veitch, John Wace, Rev. Principal Henry to Wyntoun, Andrew Yeats, William Butler to Young, Edward Zangwill, I . to Zangwill, I .
