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Brewer's: Stone Age
(The). The period when stone implements were used. It preceded the bronze age Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stone BlindStone A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Stone Blind
Wholly blind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stone ColdStone Age A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Stone of the Broken Treaty
Limerick. About a century and a half ago England made a solemn compact with Ireland. Ireland promised fealty, and England promised to guarantee to the Irish people civil and religious…Brewer's: Stone Cold
Cold as a stone. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stone DeadStone Blind A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Stone Dead
Dead as a stone. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stone JugStone Cold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Stone Jug
Either a stone jar or a prison. The Greek word (kordmos) means either an earthen jar or a prison, as in (chalkeo en keramo), in a brazen prison. When Venus complained to the immortals that…Brewer's: Stone Soup
or St. Bernard's Soup. A beggar asked alms at a lordly mansion, but was told by the servants they had nothing to give him. “Sorry for it,” said the man, “but will you let me boil a little…Brewer's: Stone Still
Perfectly still; with no more motion than a stone. “I will not struggle; I will stand stone still.” Shakespeare: King John, iv. 1. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Stone of Stumbling
This was much more significant among the Jews than it is with ourselves. One of the Pharisaic sects, called Nikfi or “Dashers,” used to walk abroad without lifting their feet from the…Brewer's: Stone of Tongues
This was a stone given to Otnit, King of Lombardy, by his father dwarf Elberich, and had the virtue, when put into a person's mouth, of enabling him to speak perfectly any foreign language…Trending
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