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Peloʹrus

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Cape di Faro, a promontory of Sicily. (Virgil: Æneid, iii. 6, 7.)

“As when the force

Of subterranean wind transports a hill

Torn from Pelorus.”


Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 232.

 

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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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Pelias
Pelican
Pelides
Pelion
Pell-mell
Pellean Conqueror
Pelleas (Sir)
Pells
Pelops
Pelorus
Pelos [mud]
Pelt
Pen Name
Pen and Feather
Penang Lawyers
Penates
Pencil of Rays
Pendennis (Arthur)
Pendente Lite (Latin)
Pendragon