Things Familiar, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, among other reference books. E. Cobham Brewer was the son of Elisabeth...
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published in 1870 by Cassell, Petter & Galpin and written by the Reverend E. Cobham Brewer, it was aimed at the growing number of people who wanted to understand...
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Brewer, Jr. (March 1809 – February 1879) was an English clergyman, historian and scholar. He was a brother of E. Cobham Brewer, compiler of Brewer's Dictionary...
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gone.[clarification needed] Its meaning was translated in 1898 by E. Cobham Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care"...
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from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2008-01-27. E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. Merriam Webster Online v t e...
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Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language". The New York Times. E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. LaGuardia, David P...
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"head") has been applied to several sects that supposedly had no leader. E. Cobham Brewer wrote, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, that acephalites, "properly...
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K. These countries also have animal fat in their money". cnn.com. E. Cobham Brewer (2001). Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Wordsworth Editions...
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Hawsepiper "The Visual Dictionary, "Passenger Liner"". "Cathole at dictionary.com". E. Cobham Brewer (1894). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. p. 1351....
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present at the execution and confirmed her identity. E. Cobham Brewer wrote in his 1870 volume Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: M. Octave Delepierre...
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ISBN 978-0-7352-1392-0. E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. Archived 2017-06-30 at the Wayback Machine E. Helmholtz, Robert Mayer's...
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Dewell Brewer (born 1970), American football player Don Brewer (born 1948), American drummer E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), compiler of Brewer's Dictionary...
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comrades what they should perform". Game of dares Never have I ever "E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898". Archived from the original...
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Supplement, Vol. 14, No. 357, p.5687. New York. [ISBN unspecified]. E. Cobham Brewer, François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno, and Henri de Parville (1890). "Pyrophone"...
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fatalis partem ex pœna Divina remansisse, & ad posteros translatam]] E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. "Adam's Apple" George...
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for ale of a particular description'." Supporting this etymology, E. Cobham Brewer describes the area as "a district of public gardens much frequented...
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p. 17. Yadin-Israel 2023, pp. 15, 63–64. Yadin-Israel 2023, p. 1. E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. "Adam's Apple" Berachot...
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not-so-romantic truth about mistletoe". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 1898, s.v. "Kissing under the mistletoe"...
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the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate. E. Cobham Brewer (1898). "Inventors Punished by their own inventions". Dictionary of...
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Century Dictionary, 1974 "Invaluable Auctions". Retrieved 23 April 2022. E. Cobham Brewer. "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable". Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company...
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Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde, 1990, p. 90 [1] Yue Laou, in: E. Cobham Brewer, "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", 1898 East India Company The Asiatic...
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Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century: Counterscarp Counterscarp Gallery E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898: Counterscarp Attribution...
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November 1928 – February 1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. Funk, Charles Earle, A Hog on...
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(1814). The History of Fiction. E. Cobham Brewer, ed. (1870). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. E. Cobham Brewer, ed. (June 1966). Reader's Handbook:...
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Fable Archived 2016-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, 1895 The Greek Anthology, trans. W.R. Paton, London 1917, Vol. III...
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is rare compared to other uses of Golden Rule. See E. Cobham Brewer (1898). "Golden Rule". Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Philadelphia: Henry...
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rebel Molly Malone – the subject of an Irish song Fishmonger Haenyeo E. Cobham Brewer (1898), "Billingsgate", Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, archived from...
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Wayback Machine, New York Tribune Sunday Magazine, November 25, 1906 [1] E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) The Seattle Telegraph...
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3, 1519–1523, ed. J. S. Brewer (London, 1867), British History Online. pp. 372. Accessed 11 December 2024. "E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of...
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"Cockle Hat". The Friar of Orders Grey; Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer. Beaumont and Fletcher. 1894. Retrieved March 5, 2018 – via Infoplease...
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