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Amaimon
Language; Encyclopedias
A devil who could he restrained from working evil from the third hour till noon and from the ninth till evening.
Bob Acres
Language; Encyclopedias
A coward in the "Rivals" whose "courage always oozed out at his finger ends."
Amphitrite
Language; Encyclopedias
A daughter of Oceanus or Nereus, the wife of Neptune, mother of Triton, and goddess of the sea.
Alsen
Language; Encyclopedias
A Danish island adjacent to Sleswig, one of the finest in the Baltic, now ceded to Germany.
Allegory
Language; Encyclopedias
A figurative mode of representation, in which a subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower which resembles it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject ...
Afghans
Language; Encyclopedias
A fine and noble but hot-tempered race of the Mohammedan faith inhabiting Afghanistan. The Afghans proper are called Pathans in India, and call themselves Beni Israel (sons of Israel), tracing their ...
