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A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens   Contents Preface Marley's Ghost The First of the Three Spirits The Second of the Three Spirits The Last of the Spirits The End of It  

Calorie Count in Alcohol

The Question: I like to drink, yet I need to watch my caloric intake. When it comes to beer, wine, or liquor, which has the least amount of alcohol relating to its alcohol…

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Walt Whitman: To the Garden the World

To the Garden the WorldTo the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my…

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Brewer's: Dragon's Teeth

Subjects of civil strife; whatever rouses citizens to rise in arms. The allusion is to the dragon that guarded the well of A'res. Cadmus slew it, and sowed some of the teeth, from which…

Brewer's: Guendolen

(3 syl.). A fairy whose mother was a human being. One day King Arthur wandered into the valley of St. John, when a fairy palace rose to view, and a train of ladies conducted him to their…

Amy Lowell: Mirage

MirageHow is it that, being gone, you fill my days, And all the long nights are made glad by thee? No loneliness is this, nor misery, But great content that these should be the ways Whereby…