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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solution
SolutionI am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought To fire the stagnant earth with thought: On spawning slime my song prevails…John Hall Wheelock: Earth
EarthJohn Hall WheelockGrasshopper, your fairy song And my poem alike belong To the dark and silent earth From which all poetry has birth; All we say and all we sing Is but as the murmuring…Consecutive Game Streaks
Consecutive Game StreaksRegular season games through 2004.Games PlayedGm Dates of Streak2632 Cal Ripken Jr., Bal 5/30/82 to 9/19/982130 Lou Gehrig, NY 6/1/25 to 4/30/391307 Everett Scott,…Brewer's: Stone Jug
Either a stone jar or a prison. The Greek word (kordmos) means either an earthen jar or a prison, as in (chalkeo en keramo), in a brazen prison. When Venus complained to the immortals that…Brewer's: Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter
A smile of contempt: so used by Homer. “The Sardonic or Sardinian laugh. A laugh caused, it was supposed, by a plant growing in Sardinia, of which they who ate died laughing.” —Trench:…Brewer's: Pentateuch
The first five books of the Old Testament, supposed to be written by Moses. (Greek, pente, five; teuchos, a book.) The Chinese Pentateuch. The five books of Confucius: (1) The Shoo-King,…Brewer's: Olympian Jove
or rather Zeus (1 syl.) A statue by Phidias, and reckoned one of the “Seven Wonders of the World.” Pausanias (vii. 2) says when the sculptor placed it in the temple at Elis, he prayed the…Brewer's: Spinster
An unmarried woman. The fleece which was brought home by the Anglo-Saxons in summer, was spun into clothing by the female part of each family during the winter. King Edward the Elder…Holiday Movie Preview, 2000 - Part 3
What Women Want, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and All the Pretty Horses by Beth Rowen What Women Want Opens December 15 Prerelease buzz has blockbuster written all over this film…Brewer's: Harpies
(2 syl.). Vultures with the head and breasts of a woman, very fierce and loathsome, living in an atmosphere of filth and stench, and contaminating everything which they came near. Homer…Trending
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