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A mythical “sacred river in Xanadu,” which ran “through caverns measureless to man.”—Coleridge: Kubla Khan.

 

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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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Alms-man
Alnaschar Dream (An)
Alnaschar of Modern Literature
Aloe
Along-shore Men
Alonzo of Aguilar
Aloof
Alorus
A l’outrance
Alp
Alph
Alpha
Alphabet
Alpheos and Arethusa
Alpheus (in Orlando Furioso)
Alphesibea
Alphonso
Alpleich
Alpue, Alpieu (Alpu)
Alquife (al-kē-fy)
Alrinach