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Brewer's: Avernus
(Greek, a-ornis, “without a bird”). A lake in Campania, so called from the belief that its sulphurous and mephitic vapours killed any bird that happened to inhale them. Poets call it the…Brewer's: Drinke and Welcome
One of the numerous publications of John Taylor, the Water Poet (1637). The subject is thus set forth. “The famous Historie of the most parts of Drinks in use now in the Kingdomes of G.…Brewer's: Dead Sea
So the Romans called the “Salt Sea.” Josephus says that the vale of Siddim was changed into the Dead Sea at the destruction of Sodom (Antiq. i. 8, 3, etc.). The water is of a dull green…Brewer's: Oats
He has sown his wild oats. He has left off his gay habits and is become steady. The thick vapours which rise on the earth's surface just before the lands in the north burst into vegetation…Brewer's: Rooky Wood
(The). Not the wood where rooks do congregate, but the misty or dark wood. The verb reek (to emit vapour) had the preterite roke, rook, or roak; hence Hamilton, in his Wallace, speaks of…Brewer's: Friar Bungay
is an historical character overlaid with legends. It is said that he “raised mists and vapours which befriended Edward IV. at the battle of Barnet.” “[Friar Bungay is] the personification…Brewer's: Fume
In a fume. In ill-temper, especially from impatience. The French say, “Fumer sans tabac; Fumer sans pipe ” (to put oneself into a rage). Smoking with rage, or rather with the ineffectual…The Koran/Sura LXXVIII — The News
Sura LXXVIII — The News Mecca — 41 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Of what ask they of one another? Of the great NEWS.[98] The theme of their disputes. Nay!…Brewer's: Upas-tree
or Poison-tree of Macassar. Applied to anything baneful or of evil influence. The tradition is that a putrid stream rises from the tree which grows in the island of Java, and that whatever…James: 4
James Chapter 4 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to…Trending
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