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" Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. "
The Publishers Weekly - Page 128
1873
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 27

New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...numerous copper plate. 2vols., 8vo., calf. Edinburgh, 1811. 7s. 6d. 5s. 6d. 36.—BREWER, E. Cobham, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, giving the derivation,...phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell, 3rd Ed., thick. 47.—BUSH, Geo., Treatise on the Millenium, in which the prevailing Theories on that...
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Notes and Queries

1896 - 664 pages
...Cockipor-itreet, Charing Oro« , B.tT . ENTIRELY NEW AND BEVISED EDITION. Now ready, cloth, 10». 6d. DR. BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE. Giving the Derivation,...Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell, 1440 pages. * * This Edition has been entirely revised throughout, and is enlarged by several hundred...
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1894 - 668 pages
...HAVE A TALE TO TELL. ENTIRELY NEW AND REVISED EDITION. NOW READY, Part I., price 7d., DR. BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE. Giving the Derivation,...Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. The fact that nearly 100,000 copies of Brewer's Dictionary have already been sold in Great Britain...
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Oberon's Horn: A Book of Fairy Tales

Henry Morley - 1861 - 402 pages
...4t0, i76 pages, cloth gilt, 5s. Deepdale Vicarage. By the Author of "Mark Warren." Crown 8vo, 3s. fid. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to TelL By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. New Edition. Enlarged, 3s. 6d. Dog, The. By IDSTONE. With Twelve Illustrations. 2s. 6d....
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An Elementary History of Britain ...

William Edensor Littlewood - 1869 - 136 pages
...sriven and a Vocabulary of the Boots of Words. Cloth, lettered, red edges - . . . . . . 3s. 6d! Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. (In the Press.) . . ... . . IQa. 6d. The Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible. 600 Engravings....
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Natural Philosophy, in Easy Lessons

John Tyndall - 1869 - 200 pages
...given, and a Vocabulary of the Roots of Word5. Cloth, lettered, red edges - - - - - 35. 6d. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to TelL By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. (In the Press.} - - - 103. 6d. The Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible. 600 Engraving5....
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - 1004 pages
... 600072861 U DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE DICTIONARY PHRASE AND FABLE, GIVING THE Derivation, Source, or...have a Tale to Tell. BY THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D., OF TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE . Author of " Guide to Science," "Guide to Evcry-day Knowledge,"...
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Truly Noble

Clara de Chatelain - 1870 - 186 pages
...i,i53 pages, imp. 8vo. Illustrated with Portraits. Cloth, 2is. ; half morocco, or calf, 35s. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. Demy 8vo, i,000 pp., cloth, i os. 6d. Dictionary of the English Language, A. i6th Edition....
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Elementary Chemistry

Henry Martyn Hart - 1870 - 324 pages
...word given, and a Vocabulary of the Roots of Words. Cloth lettered, red edges - - - -3s. 6d. Brewer-s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. \InthePress: Cassell-s Biographical Dictionary. i, 152 pp., cloth - zis. The- Illustrated...
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Jonas on a Farm, and Other Stories. With Illustrations

Jacob Abbott - 1870 - 128 pages
...i,i52 pages, imp. 8vo. Illustrated with Portraits. Cloth, 2is. ; half morocco, or calf, 35s. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; giving the Derivation,...Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. By the Rev. Dr. BREWER. Demy 8vo, i,000 pp., cloth, los. 6d. Dictionary of the English Language, A. i6th Edition....
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