where did the phrase old wives tale come from
Old wives' tale


1611, the King James Bible was published with the following translation of the Apostle Paul writing to his young protégé Timothy, "But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness" (I Timothy 4:7 KJV). Old wives' tales originate in the oral tradition of storytelling. They were generally propagated by illiterate women, telling stories to each other or to children. The stories do not attempt to moralise, but to teach lessons and make difficult concepts like death or coming of age
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Old wives' tale


than "married woman". This usage stems from Old English ' ("woman") and is akin to the German ' (also meaning "woman"). This sense of the word is still used in Modern English in constructions such as "midwife" and "fishwife". Old wives' tales are often invoked to discourage certain behaviors, usually of children, or to share knowledge of folk cures for ailments ranging from toothaches to dysentery. The concept of old wives' tales has existed for centuries. In
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Old Wives Tales (extended play)


Old Wives Tales is an EP by Joy Electric. Like most of Joy Electric's EPs, Old Wives Tales sports a much more simplistic and minimal style then on the majority of the full-length discs. This is mainly due to Martin having less spare time because of touring and being generally fatigued from the intense recording process as well as an intentional break from the norm into a lighter, more spontaneous style of recording. Along with two remixes of songs from "We Are the Music Makers", this EP contains another
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Arnold Bennett


Maupassant. Maupassant is also one of the writers on whose work Richard Larch, the protagonist of Bennett's novel "A Man from the North", tries in vain to model his own writing. Bennett's novel "The Old Wives' Tale" was an immediate success throughout the English-speaking world when it was published in 1908. In 1911, he visited the United States, then returned to England, where "The Old Wives' Tale" was hailed as a masterpiece. During the First World War Bennett became
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Old wives' tale


An old wives' tale is a supposed truth which is actually spurious or a superstition. It can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend, said to be passed down by older women to a younger generation. Such tales are considered superstition, folklore or unverified claims with exaggerated and/or inaccurate details. Old wives' tales often center on women's traditional concerns, such as pregnancy, puberty, social relations, health, herbalism and nutrition. In this context, the word "wife" means "woman" rather
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The Old Wives' Tale


I don't read my reviews, I measure them." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "The Old Wives' Tale" No. 87 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. A facsimile edition of the manuscript has been published, which is a testament to Bennett's calligraphic skills. The original manuscript is in the Lilly Library, Indiana. It was adapted into a 1921 film "The Old Wives' Tale" starring Fay Compton. It was made into a TV
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The Old Wives' Tale (play)


The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time. Although only the titles of most of these popular works have survived, they seem to be unrelated composites of popular romantic and fairy-tale motifs of the era. They were full of romantic inventions but devoid of moral content. Peele here presents an amiably ironic and exaggerated version of such a play. "The Old Wives'
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The Old Wives' Tale


The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. Bennett was initially inspired to write the book by a chance encounter in
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George Peele


, must certainly be shared by Peele. The most familiar parts of Peele's work are, however, the delightful songs in his plays—from "The Old Wives' Tale" and "The Arraignment of Paris," and the song "A Farewell to Arms"—which are regularly anthologized. Professor Francis Barton Gummere, in a critical essay prefixed to his edition of "The Old Wives Tale", puts in another claim for Peele. In the contrast between the romantic story and the realistic dialogue he sees the first instance of
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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse


lines 190–221) draw out the moral that it is better to limit one's ambition and one's appetites, warning those who make the belly their god that The cat cummis and to the mous hes ee. Henryson attributes the story to "Esope, myne author" where Sir Thomas Wyatt makes it a song sung by "My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne" in the second of his satires. This is more in accord with Horace's description of it as "an old wives' tale" but
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The Old Wives' Tale (play)


tells them a fairy-tale, which, to her surprise, comes to life: her characters appearing and telling it for her (the 'play-within-the play'). One strand of the plot involves two brothers who are on an adventure searching for their sister, Delia, who is being held captive by the magician Sacrapant (compare Milton's "Comus"). The magician also captures the brothers. Eventually they are all rescued by a knight aided by a ghost who is motivated by gratitude for
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The Nemesis of Faith


than her marriage. The novel's primary interest comes from its depiction of Sutherland's religious doubts, which arise from the weakness of a faith based on empirically false historical claims, "old-wives' tales" taken for truth. Instead, Sutherland aims to follow "not "the Christian religion", but "the religion of Christ"," spirituality without dogma. However, Froude was not fully satisfied with this formulation, and the Sutherland-Helen plot illustrates the idea that religious speculation and infidelity inevitably lead to
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Twelve Mile, Indiana


Twelve Mile is an unincorporated community in Adams Township, Cass County, Indiana. Its name is sometimes said to come from its location that is approximately from the cities of Logansport, Peru and Rochester, but this is an old wives' tale. The town was located on the twelve-mile marker of the railroad that the town grew around. The eastern portion of the town was formerly known as Hen Peck; but as the two small towns grew they became one town that was referred to as Twelve Mile. The population
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Old Azeri language


comes from the word (دربار) which refers to the royal court, where many of the poets, protagonists, and patrons of the literature flourished. ("See Persian literature") According to Jean During, the inhabitants of Tabriz did not speak Turkish in the 15th century. The language of Tabriz, being an Iranian language, was not the standard Khurasani dari. Qatran Tabrizi (11th century) has an interesting couplet mentioning this fact: There are extant words, phrases, sentences and poems attested in the old Iranian
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Old Irish grammar


syllable in Primitive Irish. It was grammaticalised by the loss of final syllables in the transition from Primitive Irish to Old Irish. In Old Irish, the process was already grammatical to a large degree, and was limited to applying across words within a single syntactic phrase (e.g. between a noun and a modifying adjective, or between a preposition and the rest of the prepositional phrase). Initial mutations did not apply across phrase boundaries generally, but there are some instances where this does occur in the earliest Old Irish attestations. Lenition
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Childe Rowland


, and in some versions they have an incestuous relationship. Jamieson also compared the story to the ballad of "The Merman and Marstig's Daughter," where a merman steals a young woman from a church. Other narratives where brothers seek a missing sister are The Old Wives' Tale and Milton's Comus. Jacob's version is predated by the "Childe Rowland" reference in "King Lear", and by Robert Browning's 1855 poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" which takes its inspiration from it.
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What Goes Up (short story)


"What Goes Up" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1956, and later anthologized in" Tales from the White Hart". Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the fictional pub "White Hart", where Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale. The title is a reference to the common phrase "What goes up must come down". The story narrated by Purvis is provoked by the entry of a U.F.O. enthusiast into the "
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A Wives' Tale


A Wives' Tale () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sophie Bissonnette, Martin Duckworth and Joyce Rock and released in 1980. The film explores the role of women in the community during the 1978 INCO strike, when a nine-month strike at INCO's mining operations in Sudbury, Ontario decimated the local economy. The film won the Prix de la critique québécoise from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1981, although the filmmakers did not receive the traditional prize money as the Quebec Film Institute had opted
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MythBusters (2004 season)


The cast of the television series "MythBusters" perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). onlyinclude /onlyinclude Allegedly, British rail companies borrowed the titular gun from NASA for testing windshields for high-speed trains, but were shocked and confused at the amount of carnage the gun did. When they asked NASA what
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Castle of Sand


Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this
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The Handmaid's Tale


phrase "Context is all" throughout the novel, establishing this precept as a motif. Playing the game of Scrabble with her Commander illustrates the key significance of changes in "context"; once "the game of old men and women", the game became forbidden for women to play and therefore "desirable". Through living in a morally rigid society, Offred has come to perceive the world differently from earlier. Offred expresses amazement at how "It has taken so little time to change our minds about things".
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Canal Town


constructed around a single plot device, a case that a Dr. David Little reported to the Albany County Medical Society in the early 19th century. Brody called the incident "a truthful old-wives' tale." The chief protagonist is a young doctor, Horace Amlie. He is intelligent and dedicated, willing to treat both wealthy and indigent, and willing to accept barter in lieu of cash when necessary. He knows of the latest advances in medical science, such as vaccination against smallpox, and comes into conflict with an
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America's Next Top Model (season 6)


The sixth cycle of America's Next Top Model premiered on March 8, 2006, which would be the last cycle to air on UPN before merging with The WB to create The CW. The catch-phrase for this cycle was "Fairy Tales Come True." This cycle was filmed from October through December 2005. The prizes for this cycle were: The international destination during this cycle was Bangkok & Phuket, Thailand. The winner was 20-year-old Danielle Evans from Little Rock, Arkansas. "First aired March 8
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Arnold Bennett


the first of Bennett's novels about life in the Staffordshire Potteries, appeared in 1902. "The Clayhanger Family" and "The Old Wives' Tale" also draw on experience of life in the Potteries, as did several of his other novels. In all of them the Potteries are referred to as "the Five Towns" because Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" and omitted Fenton. The real towns and their fictional counterparts are: The name "Knype" may have been taken
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North Staffordshire Railway


Bennett's "The Old Wives' Tale". Twentieth century construction included a branch from Leek to Cauldon Lowe via Waterhouses from where the narrow gauge Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway (L&MV) was constructed through the Hamps and Manifold river valleys to Hulme End near Hartington. Although the L&MV was nominally independent the NSR both worked and operated the line. Finally in 1910, a very short line was built from Stoke-on-Trent to Trentham Park. It was authorised as part of an alternative line to Newcastle-under
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The Winter's Tale


the promise of a happy ending. The title may have been inspired by George Peele's play "The Old Wives' Tale" of 1590, in which a storyteller tells "a merry winter's tale" of a missing daughter. However, early in "The Winter's Tale", the royal heir, Mamillius, warns that "a sad tale's best for winter." Indeed, his mother is soon put on trial for treason and adultery—and his death is announced seconds after she is shown to have
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The Gingerbread Man


it to my children. It interested them so much that I thought it worth preserving. I asked where she found it and she said an old lady told it to her in her childhood." In the 1875 "St. Nicholas" tale, a childless old woman bakes a gingerbread man, who leaps from her oven and runs away. The woman and her husband give chase, but are unable to catch him. The gingerbread man then outruns several farm workers and farm animals, while taunting them with the phrase: The
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Kannamma En Kadhali


Vasan, being a staunch nationalist, did not wish to associate himself with the movie openly. The film was produced by K. Ramnoth who was then Controller of Productions at Gemini Studios. This film was inspired by the well-known French play, "School for Wives" by the celebrated 17th Century French playwright Molière. The movie narrated the tale of a rich, lecherous old man, (Narayana Rao at his best), who finds a young girl lost in a temple festival crowd and brings her up with the intention
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The Taming of the Shrew


and whichever comes most obediently will have won the wager for her husband. Katherina is the only one of the three who comes, winning the wager for Petruchio. She then hauls the other two wives into the room, giving a speech on why wives should always obey their husbands. The play ends with Baptista, Hortensio and Lucentio marvelling at how successfully Petruchio has tamed the shrew. Although there is no direct literary source for the induction, the tale of a tinker being duped into believing he is a lord is one found
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The Winter's Tale


"a Wynters nightes pastime", might have been Shakespeare's, though no copy of it is known. In 1933, Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum wrote that Malone subsequently "seems to have assigned it to 1604; later still, to 1613; and finally he settled on 1610–11. Hunter assigned it to about 1605." A play called "The Winter's Tale" would immediately indicate to contemporary audiences that the work would present an "idle tale", an old wives' tale not intended to be realistic and offering
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Stewart of Balquhidder


and the MacGregors of Balquhidder. Some were friends and others hostile. The following story of murder provided the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott’s tale, "A Legend of Montrose". In the Seventeenth Century it was the custom to provide hospitality to anyone who asked for food and shelter. If the guest was not a friend, they were still put up, but instead of a cooked meal were given cold meat (this is where the phrase "given the cold shoulder" comes from). In accordance with this custom
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John Michuki


. Michuki was the first-born son of Mariana Wanjiku, the 45th wife of Chief Michuki Kagwi. Despite his chiefly parentage, Michuki did not enjoy the privileges of life in his early upbringing. This was largely because his father died on 4 January 1940 when young Michuki was just seven years old. He suffered the fate of large polygamous families, where sons of older wives tend to disinherit those of younger wives. As such, Michuki's mother secured only 3 acres from the large Michuki estate. In many respects,
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The Old Wives' Tale (play)


Tale" uses the device of a play within a play to add to the confusion. Peele's version, however, was more carefully composed than similar works of the period. He distilled the romantic and fairy-tale, but he was also able to create detachment; the audience became aware of its taste for the pure romance of the fairy-tale. Some critics regard the play as intentional satire constructed to highlight generic absurdities. Peele's other plays employed a similar structure. The play has been criticized as a "
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Clara Callan


The Old Wives' Tale". Online magazine "BookBrowse" calls it "a mesmerizing tribute to friendship and sisterhood, romance and redemption." The novel was presented with the 2001 Governor General's Awards for English-language fiction having been shortlisted along with "Life of Pi" (by Yann Martel), "Dragons Cry" (by Tessa McWatt), "The Stone Carvers" (by Jane Urquhart), and "Salamander" (by Thomas Wharton). The book also won the Scotiabank Giller Prize where
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Jai Shri Krishna


fully grown man, the series tells about how he slayed his evil uncle, Kans (although, in the actual tales, Krishna was much younger when he slayed his uncle – he may have been as young as 12 years old). After becoming a prince, Krishna married Rukmini, Satyabhama and Jambavati. Krishna also married 16,100 maidens who were being held in captivity by the demon Narakasura. He did this to save their honor. Krishna's wives are believed to be forms of the goddess Lakshmi, who is the consort
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The Tell-Tale Heart


will not find any evidence of the murder, the narrator brings chairs for them and they sit in the old man's room, on the very spot where the body is concealed, and suspect nothing, as the narrator has a pleasant and easy manner. The narrator begins to feel uncomfortable and notices a ringing in their ears. As the ringing grows louder, the narrator comes to the conclusion that it is the heartbeat of the old man coming from under the floorboards. The sound increases steadily, though the officers seem to
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The Old Dame and her Hen


the trail of where it went. Others bear the title "Gullskjaeren" ("Golden magpie"), and feature a gold magpie ("") that lures the sister to the giant's house. A disproportionate number of specimens come from the parish of Bøherad (Bø, Telemark) transcribed in the period from 1878 and 1880. The folklore of the area, including the tale group, is the subject of a book by Moltke Moe (1925). The tale is classified Aarne-Thompson type 311, "
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Märchen (album)


corpses of the Marquis's previous wives. Her husband has found out when she discovered the murdered corpses of Marquis's pervious wives and her husband told her that he killed his wives because they betrayed him. Her husband tried to kill her as she knew his crime and she screams for help. Her brother arrived and killed her husband. Märchen comes to a church and senses a restless spirit in the statue of Saint Solicitous, asking her to tell him her tale. Solicitous explains she was once a noblewoman named Elizabeth whose devotion
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Earwig


. It was coined by Charles De Geer in 1773. The common term, "earwig," is derived from the Old English "," which means "ear", and "," which means "insect", or literally, "beetle". Entomologists suggest that the origin of the name is a reference to the appearance of the hindwings, which are unique and distinctive among insects, and resemble a human ear when unfolded. The name is more popularly thought to be related to the old wives' tale
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The Old Wives' Tale


third part, "Sophia", carries forward the story of what happened to Sophia after her elopement. Abandoned by her husband in Paris, Sophia eventually becomes the owner of a successful pensione. The final part, "What Life Is", details how the two sisters are eventually reunited. Sophia returns to England and the house of her childhood, where Constance still lives. According to Tom Wolfe ("Hooking Up", p. 148), the book was "wildly successful," with the author demurring with "
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Willow's Song


of lyrics that would be appropriate to spring pagan festivals. "The main thing is in the rhythm, and we used all of the old twangy instruments in there". One couplet in the song is adapted from a poem by George Peele, part of his play "The Old Wives' Tale" (printed 1595). Another may be taken from a verse of the Elizabethan-period drinking song "Martin Said To His Man" (or may since have been added to it). The song has been covered
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Battle of Gibeah


we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters as wives?" And they said, "What one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord?" And, in fact, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly. For when the people were counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was there. So the congregation sent out there twelve
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Shot heard round the world


"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, particularly the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Historically, no single shot
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The Pretty Little Calf


was ready to kill his first two wives; his son persuaded him to pardon them, but he had his son bring back his mother from the mill. The calumniated wife is a common motif. Many European fairy tales feature the woman who claims that she will give a man a child, and the enemy who removes the child, but the enemies are usually the woman's sisters, who did not make such a claim and so are jealous, or her mother-in-law. Closely related to this tale are
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Eskimo (film)


. MGM did not promote the film as a tale of colonial corruption or revenge, but rather played up its sexual motifs. The studio placed large neon signs on Broadway Avenue declaring "Eskimo Wife Traders! Weird Tale of the Arctic!" Lobby cards in theaters contained lurid descriptions: "The strangest moral code on the face of the earth — men who share their wives but kill if one is stolen!" MGM more appropriately advertised "Eskimo" as "the biggest picture ever made". The film did not do
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Kaspar Hauser


stand and walk, he was brought to Nuremberg. Furthermore, the stranger allegedly taught him to say the phrase "I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was" (in Old Bavarian dialect), but Hauser claimed that he did not understand what these words meant. This tale aroused great curiosity and made Hauser an object of international attention. Rumours arose that he was of princely parentage, possibly of Baden origin, but there were also claims that he was an impostor. Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach,
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale


. They are interrupted when Piiparinen tells Rauno to come and see the old man again, as the old man is strong enough to break a metal bar. When Pietari enters, the old man notices him, as the other men try to defend Pietari from being harmed. They dress the old man in Piiparinen's Santa costume, and message the Americans that they "have found Santa Claus". They take the old man in a cage to an airbase, where they meet Riley. Riley warns that the old man in
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Federation of Stoke-on-Trent


Bennett in his contemporary (1908) novel "The Old Wives' Tale". With Fenton, Tunstall and Burslem all opposing federation it was left to Hanley, Stoke and Longton to submit proposals to the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board ruled that only the submission made by Longton met the statutory and other formal requirements and that it alone would form the basis of the subsequent local inquiry, held in January 1908. Before the inquiry opened, a poll was conducted in Tunstall where ratepayers of the town showed themselves to
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Peasant Wives


"Peasant Wives" () is an 1891 short story by Anton Chekhov. The story was first published in the 25 June (old style) 1891, No. 5502 issue of "Novoye Vremya". After minor cuts it was included into the "Ward No. 6" collection (St. Petersburg, 1893) to feature unchanged in its 2–7 (1893–1899) editions. In July 1891 Ivan Gorbunov-Posadov approached Chekhov with the request: to publish as a separate edition "...this brilliant tale of a local Tartuffe
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Let there be light


"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew ("yehi 'or") found in of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase ("genēthētō phōs") and the Latin phrase . The phrase comes from the of the Book of Genesis. In the King James Bible, it reads, in context: In the Torah, the phrase in which is typically translated in English as "let there be light
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Lucy Maud Montgomery


into the wives of ministers. The great increase of Montgomery's writings in Leaskdale is the result of her need to escape the hardships of real life. In 1909-10, Montgomery drew upon her Scottish-Canadian heritage and her memories of her teenage years to write her 1911 novel "The Story Girl." Montgomery's youth had been spent among a Scottish-Canadian family where Scottish tales, myths and legends had often been recounted, and Montgomery used this background to create the character of 14-year old Sara Stanley, a
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Finntroll


to bandmembers Vreth and Skrymer, they took their name from an old Finnish legend where Swedish priests coming to Finland had an encounter with a wild-looking man who killed most of their party. The survivors came back bearing the tale of the Finn-Troll. Finntroll's lyrics mainly deal with legends and tales revolving around the fictional Troll-King "Rivfader" and the trolls fighting against the Christians who entered their lands and spread their beliefs. A recurring theme is the story of two priests named "Aamund" and "
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Seppuku


In the 1860s, the British Ambassador to Japan, Algernon Freeman-Mitford (Lord Redesdale), lived within sight of Sengaku-ji where the Forty-seven Ronin are buried. In his book "Tales of Old Japan", he describes a man who had come to the graves to kill himself: Mitford also describes his friend's eyewitness account of a seppuku: During the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogun's aide performed seppuku: In his book "Tales of Old Japan", Mitford describes witnessing a hara-
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Märchen (album)


room where an old woman is working on her spinning wheel and her curious nature sealed her fate. Having listen to the princess's story, Märchen assures her that her prince will come. Years later, having heard the tale of the Wild Rose Princess, a prince comes across the tower covered in roses and reaches the chamber where the Princess lies asleep on the bed. Upon being revived by the prince's kiss, the princess orders for Alterose's banishment from the kingdom. But as her final revenge, Alterose leaves the
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The Old Wives' Tale


whose name reflects her sophistication, as opposed to the constant Constance) has eloped with a travelling salesman. Constance meanwhile marries Mr Povey, who works in the shop. The second part, "Constance", details the life of Constance from that point forward up until the time she is reunited with her sister in old age. Her life, although outwardly prosaic, is nevertheless filled with personal incident, including the death of her husband, Mr Povey, and her concerns about the character and behaviour of her son. The
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Simpsons Christmas Stories


did not die, but instead crashed into Tahiti. Santa takes Grampa there, and they meet up with Cyrus and his fifteen wives. Santa explains to Grampa that he did not come back for him on the island due to his procrastination and eventually feeling embarrassed about it. When Abe comments on Cyrus's fifteen wives and the sex he must have, Cyrus points out that they are wives, not girlfriends. After the children of Springfield Elementary perform "The Nutcracker", everyone begins to go about their business singing to the
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Hoodwinked!


Kids?" which considered the negative effects on children of being raised with fairy tale satires, instead of the original stories. Poniewozik mentioned "Hoodwinked!" writing, "I thought "Hoodwinked!" and most of the "Shrek" series were hilarious ... But even if you ultimately reject their messages, old-school fairy tales are part of our cultural vocabulary. There's something a little sad about kids growing up in a culture where their fairy tales come pre-satirized, the skepticism, critique and revision having
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The Clerk's Tale


– l.932), and reminds his audience of the well-known reputation of clerks for misogyny to emphasise the fact that Griselda's virtue is such as to disarm the most prejudiced (l. 936–8). In conclusion he remarks that he did not tell the story to encourage wives to imitate Griselda, but as a lesson to all and sundry to face adversity with fortitude (1142–1146). However the "Clerk's Tale" is followed by an "envoy," the tone of which is quite different. The clerk advises
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Herne the Hunter


causing cows to produce blood instead of milk: The earliest written account of Herne comes from "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in 1597: An early, pirated version of the play from 1602 includes a different version of this text, which states that the ghost (spelled "Horne" in this version) was invented to scare children into obedience, and that mothers tell their children the tale of a ghost who walks the forest in the form of a great stag. Because it is a common surname, it is not
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Nothing comes from nothing


in H.P. Lovecraft's tale, "The Whisperer in Darkness". In the 2018 film "Christopher Robin," the phrase is used multiple times, along with the retort, "Doing nothing often leads to the very best something." In Season 2 of the CBS series Salvation, Darius says to Rosetta "Nothing comes from nothing" as they discuss saving the world using a particle collider. In the 1965 film version of "The Sound of Music", Maria and Captain von Trapp confess their love to each other
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Dirawong


Headland Firstly, nearly all of the information known about the deity named the 'Dirawong' and the associated tribal spiritual beliefs, come from the Aboriginal tribes people of the Bundjalung nation & Europeans; therefore it is necessary to be aware of the possibility of bias or prejudice in the historical information Secondly, the legendary tales of the Bundjalung nation tribal groups have mainly come from a series of European people, therefore, in the re telling from European people, additional words and phrases have been necessary, while occasional interpolations and omissions have
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Joy Electric


purist" model. However, other fans claim that this album contains some of Martin's most memorable and emblematic work, including "Burgundy Years," "Hansel (I Will Be Your Friend)," and "I Beam, You Beam". Martin quickly followed this album with yet another EP, this one titled "Old Wives Tales". While retaining the Black Forest fairy-tale theme, he dropped the darker, gothic strains and produced a set of songs mixing pop and nostalgia. Joy Electric, in
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Sources of Hamlet


. Torfaeus, a scholar in 17th-century Iceland, made the connection between Saxo's Amleth and local oral tradition about a Prince Ambales ("Amlóði"). Torfaeus dismissed the local tradition as "an old wive's tale" due to its incorporation of fairy-tale elements and quasi-historical legend and Torfaeus' own confusion about the hero's country of origin (not recognizing Cimbria as a name for Denmark). Similarities include the prince's feigned madness, his accidental killing of the king's counsellor in his
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Sellic Spell


Sellic Spell (, an Old English phrase meaning "wondrous tale" and taken from the poem "Beowulf") is a short prose text available in Modern and Old English redactions, written by J.R.R. Tolkien in a creative attempt to reconstruct the folktale underlying the narrative in the first two thousand lines of the Old English poem "Beowulf". Among other things, it seeks to clarify and integrate a number of narrative strands in the Anglo-Saxon poem. The resulting text is a loose variant of the "Skilful Companions"
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Reap the whirlwind (phrase)


Reap the whirlwind is a term derived from the proverbial phrase, "They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind", which in turn comes from the eighth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the "Old Testament" ("Hosea" 8:7). Its idiomatic meaning is to suffer the consequences of one's actions. The phrase was famously used by Arthur "Bomber" Harris in response to the Blitz of 1940 when he said: The phrase was also used by Norman Tebbit in a 1985 lecture when he
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Gregory Hines


as if passing a basketball … and I caught it." Hines spoke of the honor that Sammy thought that Hines could carry on from where he left off. Hines was an avid improviser who did a lot of improvisation of tap steps, tap sounds, and tap rhythms alike. His improvisation was like that of a drummer, doing a solo and coming up with all sorts of rhythms. He also improvised the phrasing of a number of tap steps that he would come up with, mainly based on sound produced. A
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Salamandastron


to warn Redwall. Dingeye, however, is caught by a group of six vermin from Ferahgo's horde, and is beheaded with the Sword of Martin the Warrior. The vermin leader is Dethbrush, and he in turn takes the Sword from Dingeye's headless carcass. Back at Redwall, a terrible disease has begun ravaging the Abbey. A local woodvole hermit by the name of Furgle determines that it is Dryditch Fever. Mrs. Faith Spinney mentioned that there is an old wives' tale saying that the Flowers of Icetor from the
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Dirawong


relationships, anthropomorphic representations in Dreamtime stories, and as a source of food and medicine Representations of goannas are common in Bundjalung Nation artwork, not just as food, but also as a symbolic spiritual motif European settlers perpetuated several old wives' tales about goanna habits and abilities, some of these have persisted in modern folklore amongst campers and bushmen A common European settlers tale was that the bite of a goanna was infused with a powerful incurable venom. Every year after the bite (or every seven years), the wound would flare
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Emilie Johnson


watershed year for 54-year-old Emilie Johnson. Previously, she had written the story "Blind Hearts". The story takes place in 1898. The tale unfolds as two men are traveling with their wives to Alaska seeking fame and fortune. Hobart Bosworth Productions purchased the story. The film version was released in October 1921 and starred Hobart Bosworth and Wade Boteler. That same year, Hobart Bosworth Productions picked up another Emilie Johnson vehicle - "The Sea Lion". This was a tale of adventure, romance, and intrigue
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Dumbshow


survival from the morality play". It came into fashion in 16th-century English drama in interludes featuring "personifications of abstract virtues and vices who contend in ways which foreshadow and moralize the fortunes of the play's characters". There are examples in "Gorboduc" (1561) throughout which dumbshow plays a major part, and in Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" (1580s), George Peele's "The Battle of Alcazar" (1594) and "The Old Wives' Tale" (1595),
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English compound


emphasis. "Day by day" and "go-go" are examples of this type of compound, which has more than one head. Analyzability may be further limited by cranberry morphemes and semantic changes. For instance, the word "butterfly", commonly thought to be a metathesis for "flutter by", which the bugs do, is actually based on an old wives' tale that butterflies are small witches that steal butter from window sills. "Cranberry" is a part translation from Low German, which is
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Matthew 4:4


verse he demonstrates that it is not his role to feed the hungry of the world, but rather to provide spiritual sustenance. The most popular view today is that this passage echoes the history of Israel. The quote itself comes from the part of the Old Testament describing the period after the Exodus when the Israelites were wandering hungry in the wilderness and complaining about their hunger. This verse is seen to demonstrate that Jesus does not make the same mistake they did and accepts that God will ensure his safety. The phrase "man
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We wunt be druv


Ages Wealden peasants rose in revolt: once in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, under the leadership of Wat Tyler and the radical priest John Ball, and again in 1450 under Jack Cade, who was pursued and fatally wounded at Old Heathfield, where he had connections. The phrase "I wunt be druv" is mentioned in EV Lucas's 1904 book (1904). In his 1924 tale "The Cricket Match", Hugh de Selincourt wrote "‘Well, we'd better be going, I suppose,’
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The Bloody Chamber


Poe often used to influence the dark undertones in his short stories. In "The Bloody Chamber," Angela Carter reflects on the nature of artistry. Here, the Marquis, based on the character of Bluebeard from the original tale, is an art dealer, whose art comes in the form of his murder, and the "'aesthetic' display of his former wives' corpses. His current wife's role, in this case, "is to act as his Muse... he instructs her with pictorial representations, which
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Haitian Creole vocabulary


marker can also be found in Jamaican (English) Patois. The gradual abbreviation of the early French patois also included the shortening of certain French phrases into Tense markers such as: M'ape manje / M'ap manje - I'm eating (Which comes from the Old Phrase: "Je suis après manger", Creolized as "Moi après manger", Then: "Mouen apé manjé", also appearing as: "M’ape manje", "M’ap manje" or "Mwen ap manje") ("Ape" comes from
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Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come from?


Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? is a book by American biblical scholar and archaeologist William G. Dever. Dever has been prominent in the debate between biblical "maximalists" and "minimalists" over the historicity of the Bible (specifically the Old Testament). This book, which coincided with Dever's retirement from the University of Arizona, where he served as professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology for many years, was written on a semi-popular level to explain the background and origin of the
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Picts in fantasy


and are mentioned frequently in his tales, having a continuity from the Thurian Age tales of King Kull of Valusia, where they are his allies, to the Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, where they are the mortal enemies of the Cimmerians (who are actually descended from the old Atlanteans, though they don't remember their ancestry or old alliance). Howard also wrote tales about the last King of the Picts Bran Mak Morn set in real historical time, and they figure commonly as enemies of Cormac mac Art. Of
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The Poor Old Lady (La Pobre viejecita)


with a particular phrase: “God grant that we can enjoy the poverty of that poor lady and die from the same ill.” The story revolves around a unique character, the poor old lady, which is based on a commonly known social stereotype. Like all tales and rhymes of Rafael Pombo, "The Poor Old Lady" teaches children about everyday aspects of human beings and society. Women and their insatiable desire to have many shoes and dresses, and in a deeper layer this story deals with a main aspect:
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Indelible


the beaches of Florida for a few days. On their way Jeffrey makes a detour to Sylacauga, Alabama, to show her where he grew up and introduce her to his childhood friends, Robert and Possum and their wives. They plan to spend the night in Jeffrey's old bedroom but Sara's first meeting with his mother upsets her so, she dashes out into the street. When Jeffrey finally catches up to her, they hear a scream and gunshots coming from Robert's house. Jeffrey kicks in the door and finds
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Piano Sonata No. 13 (Mozart)


softens but a difficult melody is quickly established. It builds up and ends at a climax. In the second part the first part is repeated until its course changes to a minor key. It then plays two phrases which will be repeated in different keys. The third part comes in quickly and unexpectedly. It comes to a section where the major and minor keys switch every few bars. It slowly comes back to the major key where it repeats the opening theme for the second time. It continues with phrases adapted from the
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MythBusters (2005 season)


The cast of the television series "MythBusters" perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show, as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). onlyinclude /onlyinclude In this episode, Adam and Jamie relived Buster's finest moments, from his introduction in "Exploding Toilet" to his ultimate demise (supposedly in "Ming Dynasty Astronaut") and showed the construction
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Mary Chamberlain


by Virago Press in 1975, and pioneered the use of oral history in the study of women’s history. It was also the inspiration for the Joint Stock production of Caryl Churchill’s award-winning play "Fen" (1983). Fenwomen was followed by two further books on women’s history: "Old Wives’ Tales: Their History, Remedies and Spells" and "Growing Up In Lambeth". From 1987 to 1991, she lived in Barbados, and began working in Caribbean history. Using oral history,
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Maximón


virtue of their wives. Instead, Maximón disguised himself and slept with all of them. In Santiago Atitlán, an alternative tale says that Maximón was never a man, but a wooden figure created by Shamans to defend the village from witches. However, Maximón used trickery to harm the people of the village, so the Shamans twisted his head around and broke his legs to stop him. He then did his job properly and protected the people of the town from evil. Maximón is venerated in the form of an effigy.
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John Faa


". If she did run away with her lover she didn’t get far, as the Gypsy Steps are only a few hundred yards from the castle. The story seems to come from the concatenation of an old ballad "Johnnie Faa" well known before the date of the tale. There are many regional versions telling a similar story, and one of which mentions Cassillis. It is believed that Johnnie Faa stayed in the district and had a camp near Culroy Cassillis. In about 1870 "Johnny Faa's Charter Chest"
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MythBusters (2011 season)


The cast of the television series "MythBusters" perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). On March 16, 2011, Discovery Channel announced that the 2011 season would commence airing on April 6, 2011. onlyinclude /onlyinclude The Build Team investigated the ability of everyday objects to reduce the likelihood of injury or death from
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Ghostwritten (novel)


witnesses a man asking another tourist about the origins of a Mongolian folk tale. Having grown old, the woman discovers that she is now a great-grandmother and her great-granddaughter worked as a cleaning lady for a Westerner, evidently Neal Brose from the previous chapter. The old woman goes up to the top of the mountain, where the Buddhist temples are, to find freedom for her late father's soul. Her daughter and niece come to visit her in her shack, and while they stay, she peacefully falls
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Dear Dad (film)


Dear Dad is a bittersweet coming of age story; involving a father-son duo – 14 year old Shivam (Himanshu Sharma), and his 45 year old dad Nitin (Arvind Swamy). The father-son duo embarks on an impromptu road trip from their home, in Delhi, to Mussorie (Uttarakhand), where Shivam attends boarding school. Unexpected confessions, weird strangers, accidental meetings, a drunken escapade and singing in the rain – all these add up to a complicated and sweet tale releasing on 13 May
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An Old, Old Tale


An Old, Old Tale () is a 1968 Soviet musical film directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova, based on various fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. A poor wandering puppeteer gives a performance in a roadside inn to pay for a pint of beer and dinner. The audience applauds, and the happy owner asks his daughter to lavishly wine and dine the actor. The puppeteer and the daughter of the innkeeper become so in love with each other that they plan to run away together at dawn. At night, the dolls come to
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Folk etymology


", though the Old French and Old English words are not historically related. In a similar way, the spelling of "wormwood" was likely affected by comparison with "wood". The phrase "curry favour", meaning to flatter, comes from Middle English "curry favel", "groom a chestnut horse". This was an allusion to a fourteenth-century French morality poem, "Roman de Fauvel", about a chestnut-colored horse who corrupts men through duplicity. The phrase was reanalyzed in early
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Leaving Atlanta


Murders began, Jones was nine years old, attending Oglethorpe Elementary School. She writes in her "Reader's Guide" for "Leaving Atlanta," "But the time had come for someone of my generation, to tell the tale from the vantage point of the playground. This novel is a memorial to twenty-nine (or more) who did not survive and it the testimony of the thousands who will never forget." Tasha Baxter returns to school after summer vacation, having practiced jacks and jump rope, as
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Klaatu barada nikto


" and Frederick S. Clarke of "Cinefantastique" called it "the most famous phrase ever spoken by an extraterrestrial." Edmund H. North, who wrote "The Day the Earth Stood Still", also created the alien language used in the film, including the phrase ""Klaatu barada nikto"". The official spelling of the phrase comes directly from the script, as shown in the above image. The phrase was never translated in the film and neither Edmund North nor did 20th Century Fox ever release an official translation
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Hesperides


first of these two additional Labours was to steal the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Heracles first caught the Old Man of the Sea, the shape-shifting sea god, to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located. In some versions of the tale, Heracles come to Caucasus, where the Prometheus was confined. The Titan directed him concerning his course through the land of the peoples in the farthest north and the perils to be encountered on his homeward march after slaying Geryon in the farthest west."‘Follow
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The Wife of Bath's Tale


says: Well I know Abraham was a holy man, and Jacob as well, as far as I know, and each of them had more than two wives. And many other holy men did as well. When have you seen that in any time great God forbade marriage explicitly? Tell me, I Pray you. Through this quote, she addresses why society should not look down on her or any other female who has wed to multiple men throughout their life. The tale confronts the double standard and the social
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Henny Penny


Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little and sometimes as Chicken Licken, is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase featured prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Versions of the story go back more than 25 centuries; it continues to be referred to in a variety of media.
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Radix malorum est cupiditas


It has frequently been rendered as "money is the root of all evil". The original source is 1 Timothy 6:10 (St Jerome's Vulgate translation). The word "cupiditas" is ambiguous, as it may also mean "cupidity", or "strong desire". The Latin phrase is itself a translation from Greek, where the original word "philarguria" can only mean "love of money". In the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale in "The Canterbury Tales", this lesson was
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Trevor Denman


like he jumped in at the quarter pole..." is used when a horse comes from far back and is running so fast as to give the impression that he has only just started to run. Finally, another well known Denman phrase is, "_________ is coming like an express train!" This phrase is used when a horse is running right by leading horses in the stretch. He owns a three-year-old filly in South Africa, named Top Twenty, trained
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Maison dorée (Paris)


a character from his novels, Lucien de Rubempré, eat there. In the novel "In Search of Lost Time," Marcel Proust's character Swann enters the restaurant looking for Odette. When he doesn't find her there, he falls deeply in love. The restaurant is also mentioned in the novel "The Old Wives' Tale" by Arnold Bennett. It has been claimed that the dish tournedos Rossini was created by the chef of the Maison Dorée, Casimir Moisson, who created the recipe for the composer Gioachino Rossini
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Royal Tunbridge Wells


of Being Earnest", Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale and Zadie Smith's "White Teeth". The Inspector Bone mysteries by Susannah Stacey are also set in and around Tunbridge Wells. In Fanny Burney's 1796 novel "Camilla", several characters make an excursion to Tunbridge Wells, and there are many references to The Pantiles and other local sites. In Bleak House by Charles Dickens the children find a mug in the cupboard entitled "A Present From Tunbridge Wells." David Lean's epic film "Lawrence
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Bread


is a good source of carbohydrates and nutrients such as magnesium, iron, selenium, B vitamins, and dietary fiber. Bread crust is formed from surface dough during the cooking process. It is hardened and browned through the Maillard reaction using the sugars and amino acids and the intense heat at the bread surface. The crust of most breads is harder, and more complexly and intensely flavored, than the rest. Old wives tales suggest that eating the bread crust makes a person's hair curlier. Additionally, the crust is rumored
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Bovo-Bukh


meaning "old wives' tale". [Liptzin, 1972, 7] Bovo's young mother conspires to have her husband, an aged king, killed during a hunt, then marries the murderer. They try and fail to poison the child Bovo, whom they are afraid will avenge his father. The handsome youth runs away from Antona, is kidnapped and taken to Flanders to be stable boy to a king, whose daughter Druzane falls in love with him. The heathen sultan of Babylonia arrives, backed by ten thousand
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