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Brewer's: Wheal
or Huel means a tin-mine. (Cornwall.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894WheatearWhately A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Leonnoys, Leonnesse
or Lyonesse. A mythical country, contiguous to Cornwall. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LeonoraLeonine Verses A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene II
Scene IIAthens. Quince's houseEnter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and StarvelingQuinceIs all our company here?BottomYou were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the…Salvation Army
(Encyclopedia) Salvation Army, Protestant denomination and international nonsectarian Christian organization for evangelical and philanthropic work. The Salvation Army was founded by William Booth…Baron Munchausen: Introduction
by Rudolph Erich Raspe Travels of Baron MunchausenIntroduction It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the…Brewer's: Brent-hill
means the eyebrows. Looking or gazing from under brent-hill. In Devonshire means “frowning at one;” and in West Cornwall to brend means to wrinkle the brows. It is very remarkable that…Brewer's: Bude
or Gurney Light. The latter is the name of the inventor, and the former the place of his abode. (Goldsworthy Gurney, of Bude, Cornwall.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Cuckold King
(The). Mark of Cornwall, whose wife Yseult intrigued with Sir Tristram, one of the Knights of the Round Table. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cuckold's…Brewer's: Constantine Tolman
(Cornwall). A vast egg-like stone, thirty-three feet in length, eighteen in width, and fourteen in thickness, placed on the points of two natural rocks, so that a man may creep under it.…Brewer's: Conway Cabal
(The), 1777. A faction organised to place General Gates at the head of the American army. He conquered Burgoyne, October, 1777, at Saratoga, and hoped to supplant Washington. The Conway…Trending
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