The Facts on File Dictionary of Allusions - Green Valley High School

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A abduction 395 abstraction 245 absurdity 112 abundance 104 ac cep tance 310, 376–377 accident 51 accurate 482 accusation 245 achievement 144, 185, 233 acquiescence 467, 481–482 action 266 actor 406, 461 Acts (book of Bible) 127, 418 adaptation 287 adherence 282 ad infi nitum 424–425 adventure 151, 238, 367 adversity 434 advice 384 advisers 71, 265, 312 African American 481–482 afterworld 486 age 283 agility 455–456 aid package 306 airtight 219 Index R This index does not include allusions that are entries in the book; those allusions are listed alphabetically. <strong>The</strong> index lists concepts related to the entries, in order to help readers fi nd allusions that are relevant to a particular topic or theme. alarmists 91 alcohol 108–109, 187, 290 alienation 16, 395 aliens 97, 152 allegiance 323 All in the Family (tele vi sion series) 25 alumni 345–346 ambition 302, 515 Americanism 19 Americans 480 anachronism 102 angels 178 anger 490, 510 anguish 118 animals 131, 162, 174 annoyance 463 anticlimax 143, 339–340 apocalypse 135, 173, 276 apology 142 appalling 458 appetite 238 approval 417, 466–467 archery 458 architecture 42, 80–81, 456 argumentation 126–127 arise 371–372 aristocracy 64, 286, 362 arrogance 103, 230, 382, 464 art 28–29, 112, 245, 309, 313, 372, 382, 398, 488, 516 assertive 459–460 astrology 24, 36 Atlantic Ocean 342 atrocity 206, 325 auspicious 398 austere 440–441 Australian 330 authority 162, 190, 222, 248, 251, 286, 442–443 autobiography 310 avarice 429 awesome 458 awkward 234 B Bacon, Francis 235–236 bad luck 212, 254, 421 bad news 262 balance 226–227 baldness 266 bankruptcy 79 barbarian 183, 279–280 519
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Introduction x Godzilla Goebels go
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Introduction xii phoenix ( feeniks)
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Abbott and Costello 2 Abbott and Co
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Aceldama 4 Hoyle” is observing bo
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Adam’s curse 6 nowhere is the for
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aegis 8 the payments Athens had to
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Aladdin’s cave 10 Trojan War, as
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Alecto 12 with scandalous exploits
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all things in common 14 all things
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amid the alien corn 16 heroine, com
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Andersen, Hans Christian 18 is to t
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another fi ne mess 20 church and en
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apocryphal 22 apocryphal (bpokrbfbl
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April is the cruelest month 24 resi
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Argus 26 accomplish—if need were,
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Artemis 28 Schwarzenegger musculatu
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as rich as Croesus 30 as rich as Cr
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Augean stables 32 manner. T
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avenging angel 34 avenging angel Pe
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Babylon 36 Babylon (babilon) A city
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allpark fi gure 38 Eu rope, which h
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Bardot, Brigitte 40 allusion is to
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Battle of Hastings 42 the work of P
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Beau Geste 44 group, always wearing
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ehold the man 46 landed on his desk
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Benjamin 48 who has become deranged
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Betty Grable 50 person. This prover
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Big Brother 52 proof that the milit
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Bircher, John 54 girlfriend, remade
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larney 56 blarney See kiss the blar
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Bob Cratchit 58 mild- mannered Bob
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Boris Karloff 60 with the Borgias,
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Braggadocio 62 way in which a certa
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Brideshead 64 make bricks, insistin
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Buck Rogers 66 their relatively hum
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Buridan’s ass 68 Buridan’s ass
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Cadmean victory 72 Cadmean victory
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Caleb 74 Iphigenia to appease Artem
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Camelot 76 as hard to come as for a
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Captain Bligh 78 many years before.
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carry coals to Newcastle 80 politic
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Cassandra 82 Cassandra (kbsandrb) A
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Cathy 84 bright sparks. The
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c’est la guerre 86 operation give
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Charlemagne 88 charity, such as bea
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Chernobyl 90 Chernobyl (chernobbl)
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children’s teeth set on edge 92 a
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Christmas, Father 94 Christmas, Fat
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Clark Gable 96 from Christ’s Serm
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Clouseau, Inspector 98 duly arrives
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coliseum 100 Baruch (1870-1965):
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Concordia 102 and Conan the Destroy
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corners of the earth 104 corners of
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Cressida 106 and half fi sh. “God
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Crusoe, Robinson 108 Crusoe, Robins
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cutting-room fl oor 110 inertia and
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å D ååååå 112 Dada (dahdah, d
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damsel in distress 114 request to b
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Dante’s Inferno 116 proportion of
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dark night of the soul 118 Error”
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David and Nathan 120 relations betw
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Dean, James 122 The</strong
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Delilah 124 serious rival to Rome.
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Desert Rats 126 Othello wrongly com
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Dick Tracy 128 En gland. Settings d
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Dioscorea 130 Dioscorea (dioskoreeb
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Doctor Livingstone, I presume? 132
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Dolittle, Doctor 134 Dolittle, Doct
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Dormouse 136 exuberant American you
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Dracula 138 Athenians showered on h
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dust, unto 140 since Dunkirk has su
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eat crow 142 the east of Eden” th
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Egyptian gold 144 head and shoulder
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Elijah’s fi ery chariot 146 throu
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end of the beginning 148 God preser
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epiphany 150 hedonistic indulgence
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E.T. phone home 152 E.T. phone home
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evil empire 154 probably for the fi
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å F ååååå 156 Fabian (faybeeb
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Fall, the 158 but Thames water to d
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farewell to arms, a 160 know, the
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fatwa 162 fatwa (fatwb) An unarguab
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few are chosen 164 few are chosen S
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fi nest hour, their 166 as having b
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fi ve thousand, feeding the 168 fi
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fl otsam and jetsam 170 fl otsam an
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Forth Bridge 172 king to save the J
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Francis of Assisi 174 modern usage,
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frog prince 176 Tin Man, the Scarec
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å G ååååå 178 Gable, Clark Se
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Gamaliel 180 fi re from the Turkish
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Gates, Bill 182 or fi nancial scand
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Geppetto 184 shade of purple- blue
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Gibson girl 186 of Canaan (Numbers
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give us this day our daily bread 18
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gobbledygook 190 one comes forward.
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golden age 192 between good and evi
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Golightly, Holly 194 17. Such was G
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good works 196 good works Charitabl
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go to Canossa 198 windswept moors,
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grand slam 200 Robertson; 1860-1961
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Great Wall of China 202 Great Wall
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Grendel 204 and the Middle East as
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Grundy, Mrs. 206 ne’er- do- wells
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guns before butter 208 M etropolita
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Haman, hang as high as 210 Haman, h
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hard hat 212 (1964), the title of w
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heart of darkness 214 causing the p
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Hedda Gabler 216 at the hands of th
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Hellfi re Club 218 Hellfi re Club A
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Herod 220 the Dardanelles in 1810.
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Hippocrates 222 Hippocrates See gal
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Hogarthian 224 Hogarthian (hogahrth
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Homeric 226 comes from the title of
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horse, wooden 228 in complaint agai
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howling wilderness 230 2 Samuel 1:1
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Hyde, Mr. 232 on the head, killing
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ice maiden 234 consequently, Icarus
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if thy right eye offend thee 236 fa
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Indiana Jones 238 whenever he becam
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invita Minerva 240 discovers how to
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Ishtar 242 Hagar, who was the Egypt
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Ivan the Terrible 244 The</
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Jack the Ripper 246 Giant- Killer a
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Javert 248 Javert (zhavair) A merci
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jeremiad 250 11:29-40, Jephthah was
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Joan of Arc 252 / We’ve got the m
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John the Baptist 254 however, be qu
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Judas 256 celebrated the Jubilee) a
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June 258 was renowned for his godly
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Kansas anymore, we’re not in 260
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KGB 262 were the extended slapstick
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King Log 264 deranged when stripped
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knights of the Round Table 266 allu
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Kulturkampf 268 Jewish populations
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labyrinth 270 capturing the human-
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Laestrygonians 272 Laestrygonians (
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land of promise 274 origins in the
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Last Trump 276 Mr. Hague came to th
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lazaretto 278 “Lay not up for you
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Lenten 280 the Argonauts, whose cou
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letter of the law, the 282 asked Be
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light of the world 284 Egypt, which
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Little John 286 Little John See rob
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locusts, plague of 288 wife, Agripp
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Lost Boys 290 to their deaths on th
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love thy neighbor 292 love thy neig
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lyncean 294 State to back its deman
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Madame Arcati 296 was a proponent o
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magi 298 to the biblical Mary Magda
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mammon 300 Shakespeare’s comedy T
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man’s gotta do what a man’s got
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March 304 to the citizens before th
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marriage in Cana 306 marriage in Ca
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mausoleum 308 el der ly people (one
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meek as Moses 310 offending the god
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mentor 312 series. The</str
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Mickey Mouse 314 “knockout” blo
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minuteman 316 minuteman (minitman)
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modest proposal, a 318 ship, the Pe
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Mordecai at your gate, a 320 Mordec
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Mr. Bean 322 course of his relative
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Mulder, Fox 324 Mulder, Fox See x-f
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myrmidon 326 persons or phenomena.
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name is legion, my 328 twice a chil
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Nazirite 330 Nazirite (nazbrit) A p
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Never- Never Land 332 been accompli
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Nightingale, Florence 334 Christ:
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ninth plague of Egypt 336 represent
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noonday demon 338 noonday demon Ind
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not worth a bone, the dog must be b
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å O ååååå 342 Oakley, Annie S
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Oedipus complex 344 their Grecian c
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Old Testament 346 was a recipe for
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one- two 348 involved in the assass
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original sin 350 original sin A sta
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out of left fi eld 352 have such a
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å P ååååå 354 paean (peebn) A
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Palooka, Joe 356 Palooka, Joe See j
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paparazzi 358 brother—only it was
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Parcae 360 Creation”) by Guillaum
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paths of glory 362 paths of glory <
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pearls before swine 364 parables de
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Penthesilea 366 Penthesilea (penthb
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petard, hoist with one’s own 368
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Pheidippides 370 elsewhere by the A
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phone home 372 to be burned in the
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Pilate washed his hands 374 Pilate
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pit of the dragon 376 pit of the dr
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Podunk 378 Podunk (podbnk) A small,
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Popeye 380 Popeye (popi) A man with
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Praxitelean 382 themselves to those
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Promethean 384 Promethean (prbmeeth
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Puck 386 the Midwest until fi nally
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Pylades and Orestes 388 in central
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å Q ååååå 390 quality of merc
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quisling 392 quisling (kwizling) A
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Raffl es 394 to think, favours coul
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Rasputin 396 Rasputin (raspyootin)
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ed herring 398 red herring A false
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etreat? Hell, no! We just got here!
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ise from the ashes 402 Eu rope’ a
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Rochester, Mr. 404 “From time to
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oom to swing a cat 406 a Room 101 a
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Roy Rogers 408 Rick himself ) shot
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å S ååååå 410 Sabbath A perio
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Saint Valentine’s Day massacre 41
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Sam Spade 414 inspector forcibly of
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Satan 416 Satan (saytbn) Th
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Scaevola 418 and so the idea was pa
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scourge of scorpions 420 of the cou
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sell one’s birthright for a mess
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serpent 424 serpent A source of tro
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shanghai 426 shanghai (shanghi) To
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Shirley Temple 428 who shows the wa
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sick as a parrot 430 sick as a parr
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Sinon 432 Sinon (sinon) Personifi c
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Skywalker, Luke 434 Skywalker, Luke
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Socratic 436 Socratic (sbkratik) Of
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Somnus 438 World War I, fought in a
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Spade, Sam 440 original biblical co
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Spock, Mr. 442 Spock, Mr. See star
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Star Wars 444 Star Wars High techno
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stolen thunder 446 of a cool- heade
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Stymphalian birds 448 the setting s
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sweat of thy face 450 young heroine
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å T ååååå 452 tabernacle (tab
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talmudic 454 expected to be scythed
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Teapot Dome 456 to the oft- quoted
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terrible beauty 458 pavement, into
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Themis 460 and Lou
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they know not what they do 462 they
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though he slay me, yet will I trust
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through a glass darkly 466 is somet
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Timbuktu 468 Timbuktu (timbuktoo) A
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Titanic 470 powerful may be called
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Tommy 472 that much earlier they ha
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Tracy, Dick 474 Tracy, Dick See dic
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Troilus and Cressida 476 60 b.c.
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twinkling of an eye, in the 478 twi
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å U ååååå 480 über alles (oo
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understanding heart 482 is to the c
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untouchable 484 untouchable A law e
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å V ååååå 486 Vader, Darth Se
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Vanderbilt 488 and sacked Rome in 4
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via Dolorosa 490 own chastity is li
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voice of the turtle is heard in the
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Page 1066: Bunyan, John 85, 123, 374, 487, 488
Page 1070: eavesdropping 494 Ecclesiastes (boo
Page 1074: humiliation 107, 122, 478 hunting 7
Page 1078: mistakes 226 mocking 415 moderation
Page 1082: eading 344 reality 237, 265 reasoni
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