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Domʹinie Sampson

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A village schoolmaster and scholar, poor as a church mouse, and modest an a girl. He cites Latin like a porcus literaʹrum, and exclaims “Prodigious!” (Scott: Guy Mannering.) (See Stilling.)

 

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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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Dom
Dombey (Florence)
Dom-Daniel
Domesday Book
Domestic
Domestic Poultry
Domiciliary Visit (A)
Dominic (St.)
Dominical Letters
Dominicans
Dominie Sampson
Dominions
Domino (A)
Dominoes
Domisellus
Don
Don
Don Giovanni
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Donation of Pepin (The)

See Also:

Dominie, Sampson