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Brewer's: Apollo Belvidere
[Bel-ve-dear ]. A marble statue, supposed to be from the chisel of the Greek sculptor Calamis, who flourished in the fifth ante-Christian era. It represents the god holding a bow in his…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, The Devil
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Death Hell The Devil The Devil, I safely can aver, Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting; Nor is he, as some sages swear, A spirit, neither here nor there, In nothing—…Brewer's: Petit Serjeantry
Holding lande of the Crown by the service of rendering annually some small implement of war, as a bow, a sword, a lance, a flag, an arrow, and the like. Thus the Duke of Wellington holds…Brewer's: P's and Q's
Mind your P's and Q's. Be very circumspect in your behaviour. Several explanations have been suggested, but none seems to be wholly satisfactory. The following comes nearest to the point…Brewer's: Elbow
(Anglo-Saxon, el-boga, el = an ell, boga = a bow.) A knight of the elbow. A gambler. At one's elbow. Close at hand. To elbow one's way in. To push one's way through a crowd; to get a…Brewer's: Eglantine
(3 syl.). Daughter of King Pepin, and bride of her cousin Valentine, the brother of Orson. She soon died. (Valentine and Orson.) Madame Eglantine. The prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury…Brewer's: Gospel according to ...
The chief teaching of [so-and-so]. “The Gospel according to Mammon” is the making and collecting of money. “The Gospel according to Sir Pertinax Mac Sycophant,” is bowing and cringing to…Brewer's: Immortal Three
(The). Homer, Dante, and Milton. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both…Brewer's: Jonathan and David
In 1 Sam. xviii. 4 we read that Jonathan (the king's son) “stripped himself of his robe and gave it to David, with his sword, bow, and girdle.” This was a mark of honour, as princes and…Brewer's: Diotrephes
One who loves to have the pre-eminence among others. (3 John 9.) “Neither a desperate Judas, like the prelate Sharpe [archbishop of St. Andrew's who was murdered], that's gone to his place…Trending
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