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

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Introduction x Godzilla Goebels go from strength to strength Pronunciation Pronunciation is given in parentheses for a word or words that include a proper name, are of non- En glish origin, or are not a common En glish expression: expede Herculem (eks peday herkyoolem) valley of Jehoshaphat ( jbhōshbfat) Stress is shown by an underscore in the pronunciation. Pronunciation is as in American En glish and uses the following key: a (cab) ă (about) ah (car, lawn, fl aunt) air (fl air) ay (day, state) b (but) ch (chip) d (danger) e (sell) ee (feet) eer (clear) er (robber, thirst) f (fi ne) g (get) h (hand) i (ill) ī (wine) j ( jolly) k (kitten, can) ks (mix) kw (quell, quake) l (lie) m (mole) n (nine) ng (longer) n(g) (restaurant) o (fog) ō (telephone) oi (ploy) oo (loose, glue) or (sore) ow (cow) p (pink) r (red) s (silent) sh (shut) t (tip) th (theater) TH (this) u (luck) uu (bulletin) v (very)
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Page 22: Defi nitions Each entry begins with
Page 26: ååååå A å Aaron See aaron’s
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Page 58: Ananias club (anbnibs) A band of li
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eplied, undaunted, “To Philip sob
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The notion of Arca
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ark A large boat or other vessel th
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leader being Robert Henri (1865-192
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9,000 years before the emergence of
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occupied Eu rope were executed in g
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ååååå B å Baal (bahl) A false
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a beautiful youth crowned with vine
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of fi re over his decision to withd
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Bashan, bull of See bull of bashan.
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urden and heat of the day ourselves
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which the inmates lived. Th
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divorce, he assumed the mantle of B
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certain ferocious Norse warriors, w
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carried on at the wedding, in front
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controversial new item of beachwear
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to have got the name Evan Hunter fr
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Nazi Germany: “I have nothing to
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ments, cards, rich clothing, etc.,
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has been fl ung into it with both h
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a view of that dark side of him whi
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productions. In modern usage, the n
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ull of Bashan (bashbn) A very stron
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uskin Symbol of tragic drama. <stro
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ååååå C å cabal (kbbal) A gro
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guilty was damaging to him. Thus, a
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itself a translation of the Greek k
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canary in a coal mine A sign of imm
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Capua corrupted Hannibal (kapyoob,
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carried off the women as slaves. To
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anyone will succeed in casting thes
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Desmond delivers the celebrated lin
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chaos (kayos) A state of disorder o
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depicted as a hideous old man dress
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During the depression, when hard ti
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efers to the popularity of chips (F
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previously failed to make much of a
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Clio See muses. clockwork orange A
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cock and bull story An unbelievable
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), a
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inhabitants of the United States an
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Cosa Nostra See mafi a. Costello, L
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they dashed for it, like the Hebrew
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noisy sip at the cup that cheers”
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own houses, and with a pang he disc
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the sun’s rays would melt the wax
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Daniel Boone (boon) Archetype of a
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Darcy, Mr. See mr. darcy. Dare, Dan
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Daughter of Zion See zion. daughter
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emembered as one of the most decisi
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yearning for God: “Deep calleth u
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oratory or eloquence. The</
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suggesting all manner of outrageous
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“day of wrath, a day of trouble a
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to appreciate the true situation. I
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called the dog star, rose with the
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Doolittle, Eliza See eliza doolittl
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citizens t’ th’ spot! . . . <st
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with the bride of any of his vassal
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ååååå E å Earhart, Amelia See
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he presented Christ to the people.
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once more, now we appear to be so n
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over the policies espoused by the c
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latter was much easier to convey us
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love, and combined elements of both
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Euphrosyne See three graces. Eureka
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matician Pythagoras (c. 580-c. 500
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Oliver into joining his wily gang o
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Fall of the House of Usher See hous
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continues to pursue the married Mic
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enefi t. He made a Faustian bargain
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tails of two cats together and then
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many countries, enabling them to in
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ad thing—grass” (John Galsworth
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foolish virgins See parable of the
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within the heart of the modern city
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music- hall stage in the early part
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own hair, and a ratty Fu Manchu mou
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heroic rescue, typically of a damse
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cried when the ea gle carried him a
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generation of vipers A band of evil
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when Peter tries to persuade him ag
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gild the lily To add more than is n
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the horses tear their own er to pie
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God save the king/queen Long live t
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wool. “. . . a worn- out royal gu
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countries was set on one side when
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derives from an Anglo- Saxon transl
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(1811-72). “Go west, young man,
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period of low morale. His Great Dep
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speare’s time the role has often
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tales collected by the German folkl
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or her travels. Lemuel Gulliver is
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ååååå H å Hades (haydeez) <st
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Hannibal Lecter (hanibbl lekter) A
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identifi ed as personifi cations of
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to heaven exclaims, “Surely the L
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Heidi, and Mum and I did my pigtail
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irth to Ares, Hebe, Hephaestus, and
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light a candle, and put it under a
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was still in one piece, she drove o
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is to a 1925 poem entitled “<stro
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espectful by turns. The</st
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house hold gods See lares and penat
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Minister (1986-88). As permanent un
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ååååå I å I accuse See j’ac
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and the location for the judgment o
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alongside Homer’s Iliad, includin
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y papal decree to root out heretics
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wealth) in her arms and sometimes w
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applied to the Hebrew nation and su
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ååååå J å jabberwocky Nonsens
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(1953). His adventures continued in
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so- called Bloody Assizes that foll
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Jesus wept! (jeezbs) An exclamation
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on a federal arsenal at Harper’s
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following the latter’s victory ov
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wisdom and sense of justice, by two
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ååååå K å Kafkaesque (kafkbes
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presidential campaign of 1840, betw
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sinated” (Stuart Cosgrove, Hampde
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doubt over this suggestion. “ ‘
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Krakatoa (krakbtob) A volcanic erup
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ååååå L å la belle dame sans
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Lady Bracknell (braknbl) Archetype
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transformed into a child- eating mo
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ook Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Be
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what he regarded as a trivial offen
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Leander See hero and leander. lean
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less is more Simplicity is preferab
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Let there be light: and there was l
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After her banishment she became a d
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ut were eventually obliged to back
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Long John Silver A piratical rascal
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disobedience. The
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especially his fabulous banquets, a
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ååååå M å Macbeth (mbkbeth) A
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“Nonconformists are often regarde
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Magoo, Mr. See mr. magoo. Mahomet S
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manes See appease his manes. man fo
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Frankie Machine. Over the years he
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mark of Cain (kayn) A brand or othe
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Mary Magdalene See magdalen; maudli
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another—Tit for tat; an eye for a
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Melpomene See muses. meltdown A sit
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of 15 and after he achieved power t
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Christ’s second coming (postmille
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of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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god of ridicule who was obliged to
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Pharaoh. It was also with this rod
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unconventional behavior in others.
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The concept of the
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ååååå N å nabob (naybob) A we
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was Narcissism in him to love the c
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the commodore is no Nelson. See als
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new wine in old bottles New ideas,
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“Very many men nowadays besides t
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with his novel Émile (1762), which
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Nostradamus (nostrbdahmbs) A person
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Nurse Ratched (rached) Archetype of
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absolutely necessary.” Ockham was
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command that you exterminate the tr
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ancient Greece, in which competitor
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the very end. A favorite expression
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word in its modern usage necessaril
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groundless. The ph
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they were ready to leave she was ha
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in valleys and mountains, typically
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parable of the talents Story emphas
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Parks, Rosa See rosa parks. Parnass
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Pavlovian (pavloveebn) Automatic; c
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tradition has it that the spring of
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what he had inherited by a single d
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(referring to King Merops of Ethiop
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philistine (fi lbstin) An unculture
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that are not meant to be taken lite
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to the legend that Hercules separat
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were tried out to see how pop u lar
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who fell in love with the nymph Gal
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was—only in a different way” (W
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princes in the Tower Innocent victi
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Proustian (proosteebn) Reminiscent
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absolute power of the monarchy (whi
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asic laws of mathematics, such as t
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spirit in her” (1 Kings 10:4-5).
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ååååå R å rabbit hole See dow
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the dev il, as most people hesitate
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Rochau in criticism of the unrealis
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for Texan in de pen dence from Mexi
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solve the riddle What creature goes
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usinessmen who amassed vast fortune
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favorite choice of the rich and fam
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is a slab of basalt that was uneart
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Runyonesque (runyonesk) After the s
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Leviticus 4:1-3). “A dreadful per
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eighth- century b.c. Assyrian king
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she quizzed me about the burglars a
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Saul (sahl) Archetype of a troubled
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unlikely person to be the Pimpernel
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second front Activities begun on a
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separate the sheep from the goats T
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walls, at one stretch, I have endur
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adventures revolve around the sheri
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which instance the word would signi
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include Scotland’s Silicon Glen b
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so- called dog days of mid- summer)
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only answer by invoking the protect
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solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
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himself: “Life’s but a walking
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more sophisticated Macedonians. “
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agriculture that took place under h
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the sale was about to commence” (
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near him or her. The</stron
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friend Patroclus. In his absence th
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with a class of Athenian lawyers ca
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unlikely to be found. It was only w
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is to one of the Uncle Remus childr
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Every son of Tellus was included in
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Thalatta! (thblata) A cry of joy or
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a martyr’s end gladly. He did not
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epented of his deed and “cast dow
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sion, a great thought is never foun
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popularly supposed to have its orig
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and its stars Joe Tinker, Johnny Ev
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him, doomed to suffer eternal agony
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marketed by the showmen Barnum and
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prevent them from suffering injury.
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est verse in the Bible—or in any
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people are infectious however, and
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duckling, Sally thought, smiling wr
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assassinated Caesar’s mantle by t
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statesman and phi los o pher Sir Th
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horses picking out the bravest of t
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of the barrier placed between God a
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disaster on a similar scale. <stron
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ååååå W å Wackford Squeers Se
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name was a wooden structure built b
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marriage feast ( John 2:1-11). <str
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“. . . but the children of the ki
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infl uence upon events. The
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Houses of Parliament and the locati
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when Dorothy throws a bucket of wat
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fl ee away and be at rest” (Wilki
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harmful nature. The</strong
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wrath to come A future punishment o
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xenocratic (zenokratik) Chaste; con
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yellow press The s
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and people of Judah as a whole (for
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A abduction 395 abstraction 245 abs
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Bunyan, John 85, 123, 374, 487, 488
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eavesdropping 494 Ecclesiastes (boo
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humiliation 107, 122, 478 hunting 7
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mistakes 226 mocking 415 moderation
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eading 344 reality 237, 265 reasoni
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theater 64-65 1 The</strong
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