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The Devil's Dictionary: Age
by Ambrose Bierce AFRICANAGITATORAGE -n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit…The Four Ages of Man
ContentsIntroductionChildhoodYouthMiddle AgeOld AgeAges Four and Up
Books that delight practically everyone by Holly Hartman A six-year-old who crashes parties at New York's posh Plaza Hotel. A talking dog and her astonished family. Verse about evil weevils…Brewer's: Augustan Age
The best literary period of a nation; so called from Augustus, the Emperor of Rome, the most palmy time of Latin literature. Horace, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Virgil, etc., flourished in…Brewer's: Heroic Age
That age of a nation which comes between the purely mythical period and the historic. This is the age when the sons of the gods take unto themselves the daughters of men, and the offspring…Brewer's: Age of Animals
An old Celtic rhyme, put into modern English, says: Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse; Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man; Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer;…Brewer's: To Age as accords
To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here “Age” is from the Latin agere, to do. “To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it ... to “age as accords.”” —Sir…Brewer's: The Age of the Bishops
The ninth century. (Hallam: Middle Ages.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Age of the PopesAge of Women A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Brewer's: Age hoc
“Attend to this.” In sacrifice the Roman crier perpetually repeated these words to arouse attention. In the Common Prayer Book the attention of the congregation is frequently aroused by…Brewer's: The Age of the Popes
The twelfth century. (Hallam: Middle Ages.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Age hocAge of the Bishops A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Trending
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