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Grasshopper (The)

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A compound of seven animals. (Anglo-Saxon, grœshoppa.)

“It has the head of a horse, the neck of an ox, the wings of a dragon, the feet of a camel, the tail of a serpent, the horns of a stag, and the body of a scorpion.”—Caylus: Oriental Tales (The Four Talismans).

 

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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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Grani
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Grapes
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Grass Widow
Grasshopper
Grasshopper (The)
Grassmarket
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Grave
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Grave-diggers (Hamlet)
Grave Maurice
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