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Brewer's: Green Dogs

Any extinct race, like that of the Dodo. Brederode said to Count Louis: “I would the whole race of bishops and cardinals was extinct, like that of green dogs.” (Motley Dutch Republic, part…

Brewer's: Carduel

or Kartel. Carlisle. The place where Merlin prepared the Round Table. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Care-clothCardinal's Red Hat A B C D E F G H I…

Brewer's: Care killed the Cat

It is said that “a cat has nine lives,” yet care would wear them all out. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Care SundayCare-cloth A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: Cloten

A vindictive lout who wore his dagger in his mouth. He fell in love with Imogen, but his love was not reciprocated (Shakespeare Cymbeline.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Clotharius

or Clothaire (in Jerusalem Delivered) At the death of Hugo he takes the lead of the Franks, but is shot by Clorinda (q.v.) with an arrow (book xi.). After his death, his troops sneak away…

Brynn's Time Travel Essay

Brynn Proudly Signs the Declaration of Independence Related Links American Revolution How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay…

100 Years of Girl Scouts

In 2012, the Girls Scouts of the USA celebrated their 100th anniversary. by Jennie Wood Two Girl Scouts with Juliette Gordon Low (center) Related Links Girl Scouts Official…

Brewer's: Field of the Forty Footsteps

At the back of the British Museum, once called Southampton Fields. The tradition is that two brothers, in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, took different sides and engaged each other in…