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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 2001 - 1166 pages
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology ...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume IV

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 568 pages
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and ...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume III

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 592 pages
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and ...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume II

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Literary Collections - 2004 - 592 pages
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and ...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume I

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and ...
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