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Alice Brand

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Wife of Lord Richard, cursed with the “sleepless eye.” Alice signed Urgan the dwarf thrice with the sign of the cross, and he became “the fairest knight in all Scotland;” when Alice recognised in him her own brother.—Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of the Lake, iv. 12.

 

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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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Algebra
Algrind
Alhambra
Ali
Alias
Alibi (elsewhere)
Alibi Clock (An)
Aliboron
Alice
Alice Brand
Alichino (wing-drooped)
Alick and Sandie
Alicon
Alien Priory (An)
Alifanfaron
Al ilat
Aliprando (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Al iris
Al Kader (the Divine decree)
Alkahest