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Babbitt, Natalie

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Natalie, 1932–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Dayton, Ohio, as Natalie Zane Moore, grad. Smith College, 1954. She illustrated The Forty-Ninth…

An Everlasting Piece

Director:Barry Levinson Writer:Barry McEvoyDreamWorks and Columbia Pictures; R; 109 minutesRelease:12/00Cast:Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel Wit amid hardship in small-town…

everlasting

(Encyclopedia) everlasting or immortelleeverlastingĭmˌôrtĕlˈ [key], names for numerous plants characterized by papery or chaffy flowers that retain their form and often their color when dried and are…

Brewer's: Tuck

A long narrow sword. (Gaelic, tuca ,] Welsh twca, Italian stocco, German stock, French estoc.) In Hamlet the word is erroneously printed “stuck,” in Malone's edition. If he by chance…

The Devil's Dictionary: Everlasting

by Ambrose Bierce EVANGELISTEXCEPTIONEVERLASTING -adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of…

Brewer's: Everlasting Staircase

(The). The treadmill. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Every Man Jack of ThemEver-Victorious Army A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…

Brewer's: Friar Tuck

Chaplain and steward of Robin Hood. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe. He is a pudgy, paunchy, humorous, self-indulgent, and combative clerical Falstaff. His costume consisted of a…

immortelle

(Encyclopedia) immortelle: see everlasting.

Robin Hood

(Encyclopedia) Robin Hood, legendary hero of 12th-century England who robbed the rich to help the poor. Chivalrous, manly, fair, and always ready for a joke, Robin Hood reflected many of the ideals…

The Devil's Dictionary: Fool

by Ambrose Bierce FOLLYFORCEFOOL -n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform,…