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Brewer's: Round as a Ball;

... as an apple, as an orange, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RoundaboutRound Table A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…

Computer Virus Timeline

If you own or use a computer, you are vulnerable to malware. Computer viruses are deployed every day in an attempt to wreak havoc, whether it be by stealing your personal…

Jo's Boys: Chapter 2 — Parnassus

ParnassusIt was well named; and the Muses seemed to be at home that day, for as the newcomers went up the slope appropriate sights and sounds greeted them. Passing an open window, they looked…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 8

Part 8And thou America, Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering, With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law; Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing…

Brewer's: Hippomenes

(4 syl.). A Grecian prince, who ran a race with Atalanta for her hand in marriage. He had three golden apples, which he dropped one by one, and which the lady stopped to pick up. By this…

Brewer's: Ladon

One of the dogs of Actæon. Ladon. The dragon which guarded the apples of the Hesperides. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LadronesLadies A B C D E F G…