Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 páginas |
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... Words , and Letters in the Old and New Testaments - The Bible Dissected - An Extra- ordinary Calculation - Distinctions between the Gospels - The Lost Books- What the word " Selah means - The Poetry of the Bible - Shakespeare's ...
... Words , and Letters in the Old and New Testaments - The Bible Dissected - An Extra- ordinary Calculation - Distinctions between the Gospels - The Lost Books- What the word " Selah means - The Poetry of the Bible - Shakespeare's ...
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... Words - Excise , Pontiff , Rough— Dr. Johnson in Trouble - Americanisms- " No Love Lost " -The Forlorn Hope - Quiz - Tennyson's English - Eccentric Etymologies - Words which have changed their Meaning - Strange Derivations - Influence ...
... Words - Excise , Pontiff , Rough— Dr. Johnson in Trouble - Americanisms- " No Love Lost " -The Forlorn Hope - Quiz - Tennyson's English - Eccentric Etymologies - Words which have changed their Meaning - Strange Derivations - Influence ...
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... word " Turncoat " -Who invented Lucifer Matches ? — When was the Flag of England first unfurled - Why are Literary ladies called Blue Stockings ? " - Origin of the word Skedaddle " -How Fools- cap Paper got its name - The First Forged ...
... word " Turncoat " -Who invented Lucifer Matches ? — When was the Flag of England first unfurled - Why are Literary ladies called Blue Stockings ? " - Origin of the word Skedaddle " -How Fools- cap Paper got its name - The First Forged ...
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... words ! Jami sarcastically an- swered , " You can do a better thing yet ; take away all the letters from every word you have written . ” This alphabetical whim has assumed other shapes , sometimes . taking the form of a fondness for a ...
... words ! Jami sarcastically an- swered , " You can do a better thing yet ; take away all the letters from every word you have written . ” This alphabetical whim has assumed other shapes , sometimes . taking the form of a fondness for a ...
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... word , while the letters ending the lines , when taken together , form a word of an opposite meaning , as in this instance : - Unite and untie are the same - so say yo U. Not in wedlock , I ween , has this unity bee N. In the drama of ...
... word , while the letters ending the lines , when taken together , form a word of an opposite meaning , as in this instance : - Unite and untie are the same - so say yo U. Not in wedlock , I ween , has this unity bee N. In the drama of ...
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