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Grotta del Cane (Naples)

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The Dog’s Cave, so called from the practice of sending dogs into it to show visitors how the carbonic acid gas near the floor of the cave kills them.

 

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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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Grog
Grog Blossoms
Grogram
Groined Ceiling
Grommet, Gromet, Grumet, or Grummet
Grongar Hill
Groom of the Stole
Gross
Grosted or Robert Grosseteste
Grotesque
Grotta del Cane (Naples)
Grotto
Grotto of Ephesus (The)
Ground
Ground Arms (To)
Groundlings
Grove
Growlers
Grub Street
Gruel
Grumbo