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Daughter of General Kleiner, governor of Prague and wife of Idenstein. Her only fault was “excess of too sweet nature, which ever made another’s grief her own.”—Knowles: Maid of Mariendorpt (1838).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Adjournment of the House
Admirable (The)
Admirable Crichton (The)
Admirable Doctor (Doctor admirdbilis)
Admiral
Admiral of the Blue
Admiral of the Red
Admittance
Admonitionists or Admonitioners
Adolpha
Adonai
Adonais
Adonies
Adonis
Adonis of 50
Adonis Flower (The)
Adonis Garden
Adonis River
Adonists
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