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Brewer's: Automedon
A coachman. He was the charioteer of Achilles. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AutumnAutomaton A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Sara Teasedale: Sappho II
Sappho IIOh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep? These long Egyptian noons bend down your head Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee. There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled, Dark…Brewer's: Vallombrosa
Milton says, “Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks in Vallombrosa” (Paradise Lost, i. 302); but as the trees of Vallombrosa are chiefly pines, they do not strew the brooks with…Brewer's: Ava
in Burmah, has marble quarries of which idols are made, and only priests are allowed to trade there. (Symes, vol. ii. p. 376.) As on Ava's snore, Where none but priests are privileged to…Brewer's: Oak and Ash
The tradition is, if the oak gets into leaf before the ash we may expect a fine and productive year; if the ash precedes the oak in foliage, we may anticipate a cold summer and…Brewer's: Seasons
(The). In art. The four seasons have often been sculptured or painted by artists: POUSSIN drew his symbolic characters from the Old Testament. Thus, Adam and Eve in Paradise represent…leaf
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Microscopic cross section of the leaf blade CE5 Types of leaves leaf, chief food-manufacturing organ of a plant, a lateral outgrowth of the growing point of stem. The…García Márquez, Gabriel
(Encyclopedia) García Márquez, GabrielGarcía Márquez, Gabrielgäbrēĕlˈ gärsēˈä märˈkās [key], 1927–2014, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, b. Aracataca. Widely considered one of…Bergman, Ingmar
(Encyclopedia) Bergman, Ingmar (Ernst Ingmar Bergman)Bergman, Ingmarĕrnst ĭngˈmär bĕrˈyəmän [key], 1918–2007, Swedish film and stage writer, director, and producer. Acclaimed by many as the greatest…sumac
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Poison sumac, Rhus vernix sumac or sumachsumacsh&oomacr;ˈmăk, s&oomacr;ˈ– [key], common name for some members of the Anacardiaceae, a family of trees and shrubs native…Trending
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