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The teeth of the dragon that Cadmus slew, and which when sown by him sprang up as a host of armed men, who killed each other all to the five who became the ancestors of the Thebans, hence the phrase to "sow dragon's teeth," to breed and foster strife.
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A range of mountains in S. Africa, 6500 ft. high, between Natal and the Orange Free State.
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Three rules of dramatic construction prescribed by Aristotle, observed by the French dramatists, but ignored by Shakespeare, that a play should represent what takes place within eight hours, there must be no change of locality, and there must be no minor plot.
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A Norwegian seaport on a river which falls into Christiania Bay, 30 m. SW. of Christiania; trade chiefly in timber.
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A pseudonym adopted by Swift in his letters to the people of Ireland anent Wood's pence, and which led to the cancelling of the patent.
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A river from the Eastern Alps which flows eastward, and after a course of 380 miles falls into the Danube 10 m. below Essek.
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Races of people who occupied India before the arrival of Aryans, and being driven S. by them came to settle chiefly in the S. of the Dekkan; they are divided into numerous tribes, each with a language of its own, but of a common type or group, some of them literary and some of them not, the chief the Tamil; the tribes together number over 20 millions.
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A blustering, bullying boaster in Buckingham's play the "Rehearsal"; he kills every one of the combatants, "sparing neither friend nor foe."
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A French Protestant divine, born at Sedan; author of "Consolations against the Fear of Death" (1595-1669).
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A province of Holland lying between Hanover and the Zuyder Zee; the soil is poor, and the population sparse.
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