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Brewer's: Tom Tidler's Ground
The ground or tenement of a sluggard. The expression occurs in Dicken's Christmas story, 1861. Tidler is a contraction of “the idler” or t'idler. The game so called consists in this: Tom…Brewer's: Vauxhall
or Fauxhall (2 syl.). Called after Jane Vaux, who held the copyhold tenement in 1615, and was the widow of John Vaux, the vintner. Chambers says it was the manor of Fulke de Breauté, the…Brewer's: Contenement
A word used in Magna Charta, meaning the lands and chattels connected with a tenement; also whatever befits the social position of a person, as the arms of a gentleman, the merchandise of…Brewer's: Copyhold Estate
Land which a tenant holds [or rather, held ] without any deed of transfer in his own possession. His only document is a copy of the roll made by the steward of the manor from the court-…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Musketaquid
MusketaquidBecause I was content with these poor fields, Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in haunts which others scorned, The partial wood-gods overpaid my love…Speaks Out on Child Labor and Woman Suffrage
by FlorenceKelley We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread. They vary in age from six and seven years (in the cotton…Brewer's: Half
Half is more than the whole.. (Pleou hmiou pantoz)This is what Hesiod said to his brother Perseus, when he wished him to settle a dispute without going to law. He meant “half of the estate…Peter Pan: Do You Believe in Fairies?
The Children are Carried off The Pirate Ship Do You Believe in Fairies? The more quickly this horror is disposed of the better. The first to emerge from his tree was Curly. He rose…State of the Union Address: Theodore Roosevelt (December 6, 1904)
Theodore Roosevelt (December 6, 1904) To the Senate and House of Representatives: The Nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity. Such prosperity is of course primarily due to the high…Walt Whitman: Faces
FacesPart 1Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road, faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality, The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common…Trending
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