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Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
...NUMBER: 8511 AUTHOR: Mimnermus (fl. late 7th cent. B.C.) QUOTATION: We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when...
12) Appendix to Chapter IV. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World
...1. EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 7TH From 4 A. M. until dawn Kerensky remained at the Petrograd Staff Headquarters, sending orders to the Cossacks and to the yunkers in the...
13) Black Horse. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The 7th Dragoon Guards, or "the Princess Royal s D. G." Their "facings" are black. Also called "Strawboots," The Blacks." 1...
14) Balance (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
..."Libra," the 7th sign of the zodiac, which contains the autumnal equinox. According to fable it is Astraea, who, in the iron age, returned from earth to heaven. Virgil,...
15) Blacks (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...or "The 7th Dragoon Guards," or "The Princess Royal s D. G." Called blacks from their facings. Nicknames: "The Virgin Mary s Guard," Straw boots," Lingoniers," etc....
16) G. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...G, 7th letter of the alphabet. It is a usual symbol for a voiced velar stop, as in the English go. It was originally a differentiated form of Greek gamma, which has...
17) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Hornung, Ernest William
...(b. Middlesbrough, June 7th, 1866). A Bride from the Bush (1890); Under Two Skies (1892); Tiny Luttrell (1893); The Boss of Taroomba (1894); The Unbidden Guest (1894)...
18) Marcley Hill (Herefordshire). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...on February 7th, 1571, at six o clock in the evening, "roused itself with a roar, and by seven next morning had moved forty paces." It kept on the move for three...
19) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Browning, Robert
...(b. Camberwell, May 7th, 1812, d. Florence, December 12th, 1889). Paracelsus (1835). Strafford (1837); Sordello (1839); Pippa Passes (1842); The Blot in the Scutcheon...
20) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Cunningham, Peter
...(b. Pimlico, April 7th, 1816; d. May, 1869). A Handbook to London; a Life of Drummond of Hawthornden; a Handbook to Westminster Abbey, a Life of Inigo Jones; Modern...
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