11) Horse-shoes. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...nailed to the mast of the ship Victory. 2 There is a legend that the devil one day asked St. Dunstan, who was noted for his skill in shoeing horses, to shoe his "single...
12) Pin. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the legs being a man s pegs or supporters. 4 A merry pin. A roysterer. 5 We are told that St. Dunstan introduced the plan of pegging tankards, to check the intemperate...
13) Rising in the Air. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...St. Robert de Palentin was elevated in his ecstasies eighteen or twenty inches. St. Dunstan, a little before his death, was observed to rise from the ground. And...
14) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stubbs, Right Rev.
William, D.D., D.C.L.
...Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (1870); Memorials of St. Dunstan (1874), etc. 1...
15) (6) Giants of Real Life. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...had seen him. BAMFORD (Edward) was 7 feet 4 inches. He died in 1768, and was buried in St. Dunstan s churchyard. BATES (Captain) was 7 feet 11 1/2 inches. He was...
16) Introductory Note. Walton, Izaak. 1909-14. The Lives of John Donne and
George Herbert. The Harvard Classics
...a number of distinguished divines, notably Dr. John Donne, who when he was vicar of Saint Dunstan s, was a near neighbor of Walton s. In politics he sympathized warmly...
17) §6. Byrhtferth. VII. From Alfred to the Conquest. Vol. 1. From the
Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and
American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...a pupil of Abbo. Leland says he was called Thorneganus. He seems to have known some of Dunstan s earlier disciples, and to have lived at Canterbury for a time. His...
18) Edwy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Edgar. Little is known of his short reign, except that he quarreled with and exiled St. Dunstan. Edwy was succeeded in Wessex by Edgar....
19) Edred. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Scandinavian kingdom in England. Edred, being sickly, left affairs to his friend Saint Dunstan, who allowed the Danes of England to live under their own laws....
20) Edgar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...brother as king of Wessex. His reign was one of orderly prosperity. He recalled (958) Saint Dunstan from Flanders and with him initiated widespread monastic reforms....
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