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Brewer's: Tammany
(St.). Tammany was of the Delaware nation in the seventeenth century, and became a chief, whose rule was wise and pacific. He was chosen by the American democrats as their tutelary saint.…Brewer's: Show
Show him an egg, and instantly the whole air is full of feathers. Said of a very sanguine man. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Shrew-mouseShovel-board A B…Brewer's: Shrieking Sisterhood
(The). Women who clamour about “women's rights.” “By Jove, I suppose my life wouldn't be worth a moment's purchase if I made public these sentiments of mine at a meeting of the Shrieking…Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Charles and Mary Lamb William Shakespeare Contents Preface The Tempest Midsummer Night's Dream Winter's Tale Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It Two Gentlemen of Verona…Brewer's: Katharine
or Katharina. Daughter of Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua. She was very beautiful, but a shrew. Petruchio of Verona married her, and so subdued her imperious temper by his indomitable…Brewer's: Xantippe
or Xanthippe (3 syl.). Wife of the philosopher Socrates. Her bad temper has rendered her name proverbial for a conjugal scold. Be she as foul as was Florentius' love, As old as Sibyl, and…Brewer's: Sly
(Christopher). A keeper of bears and a tinker, son of a pedlar, and a sad, drunken sot. In the Induction of Shakespeare's comedy called Taming of the Shrew, he is found dead drunk by a…Brewer's: Abon Hassan
A rich merchant, transferred during sleep to the bed and palace of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid. Next morning he was treated as the caliph, and every effort was made to make him forget his…mammal
(Encyclopedia) mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. In the majority of…William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the grand literary figure of the Western world. During England's Elizabethan period he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth, and dozens of other plays which continue to…Trending
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