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BO_L_Answer: BOULE!
MASS_FAnswer: MASSIF! Noun: a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
The King insisted that he would find some way to prove beyond dispute that his wife was fairest of all women. "I will hide you in our room where we sleep," said Candaules. He tells Gyges that the Queen has the same practice every night: She takes off her clothes and puts them on the chair by the door to her room. "And from where you stand, you will be able to gaze on her at your leisure." And that evening, it's exactly as the King has told him. She goes to the chair, removes her clothes one by one, until she's standing naked in full view of Gyges. And indeed, she was more lovely than he could have imagined. But then, the Queen looked up and saw Gyges concealed in the shadows. Although she said nothing, she shuddered. And the next day, she sent for Gyges and challenged him. And hearing his story, this is what she said: "Either you must submit to death for gazing on that which you should not, or else kill my husband who has shamed me and become King in his place." So Gyges kills the King, marries the Queen, and becomes ruler of Lydia for years.Source: Script-O-Rama
A gentleman was boasting that his parrot would repeat anything he told him. For example, he told him several times, before some friends, to say “Uncle,” but the parrot would not repeat it. In anger he seized the bird, and half-twisting his neck, said: “Say ‘uncle,’ you beggar!” and threw him into the fowl pen, in which he had ten prize fowls. Shortly afterward, thinking he had killed the parrot, he went to the pen. To his surprise he found nine of the fowls dead on the floor with their necks wrung, and the parrot standing on the tenth twisting his neck and screaming: “Say ‘uncle,’ you beggar! say uncle.’”
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Night waned upon this talk, and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest.However, in Hamlet (c. 1600), Shakespeare uses a similar phrase:
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Smoke from a cooking fire on the terrazzo floor of the lobby of the Empire State Building on the Island of Death floats out ofver the ailanthus jungle which Thirty-fourth Street has become.Answer: Oh. It's a kind of tree. "Any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus, especially the tree-of-heaven." Influenced by Greek anthos, "flower," of Ambonese ai lanto, tree of heaven : ai, "tree" + lanto, "heaven"
Dwayne glanced around craftily. Then he called out a signal he had used as a child to indicate that a came of hide-and-seek was over, that it was time for children in hiding to go home.Answer: It might be from the German phrase "Alle, alle auch sind frei!" which translates to "All, all are also free" or "Everybody is free."
Here is what he called, and the sun was down when he called it: "Olly-olly-ox-in-freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
11 was a horseSource: Yahoo! Answers
12 was 12
11 1 1 race
12 1 1 2
One-One was a horse
One-Two was one too
One-One won one race
One-Two won one too
The craze spread. Black people who had never been near the Keedsler mansion could imitate the Lyre Bird and the Willy Wagtail of Australia, the Golden Oriole of India, the Nightingale and the Chaffinch and the Wren and the Chiffchaff of England itself.Answer: Click here to hear the Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia).
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