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(Encyclopedia) pie, meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables baked with a crust of pastry, or pastry shells filled with custard or pudding. The pies of the Romans, especially at banquets in the days of…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: A Hasty Settlement
24 26 A Hasty Settlement "YOUR Honour," said an Attorney, rising, "what is the present status of this case - as far as it has gone?" "I have given a judgment for the residuary legatee under the…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: A Hasty Settlement
The Holy Deacon The Wooden Guns A Hasty Settlement "YOUR Honour," said an Attorney, rising, "what is the present status of this case - as far as it has gone?" "I have given a…enset
(Encyclopedia) enset or false banana, large herbaceous plant, Ensete ventricosum, of the family Musaceae (the banana family), native to E and S Africa and grown for food in the Ethiopian highlands,…Brewer's: Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies
This, like Maggie Lauder, is a scurrilous song, in the time of the Reformation, on the doctrines of the Catholic Church and the Catholic clergy. (See “John Anderson, my Jo.”) Source:…Brewer's: Cold Pudding settles Love
by giving the pains of indigestion, colic, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cold ShoulderCold Pigeon A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna
(Encyclopedia) Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva, Marina IvanovnaTsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovnatsvyĭtäˈyəvə [key], 1892–1941, Russian poet. She was a major Russian poet, who survived the civil war,…Brewer's: Scornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings
In emergency men will do many things they would scorn to do in easy circumstances. Darius and Alexander will drink dirty water and think it nectar when distressed with thirst. Kings and…Brewer's: Blunderbore
A giant, brother of Cormoran, who put Jack the Giant Killer to bed and intended to kill him; but Jack thrust a billet of wood into the bed, and crept under the bedstead. Blunderbore came…Nicias
(Encyclopedia) NiciasNiciasnīˈsēəs, nĭshˈēəs [key], d. 413 b.c., Athenian political leader and general. After Pericles' death he emerged as the primary rival of Cleon and his war party. He was a…Trending
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