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David and Jonathan

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Inseparable friends. Similar examples of friendship were Pyladēs and Orestēs (q.v.); Damon and Pythias (q.v.); etc.

“I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant hast thou been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.”—2 Sam. i. 26.

 

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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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Dash
Dash my Wig. Dash my Buttons
Date
Daughter
Daughter of Peneus (The)
Daughter of the Horseleech
Dauphin
Davenport
Davenport (The Brothers)
David
David and Jonathan
Davideis
Davus
Davy
Davy (Snuffy)
Davy Jones’s Locker
Davy’s Sow
Dawson (Bully)
Day
Day of the Barricades
Day of the Dupes