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Isaac

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A hedge-sparrow, a corruption of Chaucer’s word, heisuagge. (Anglo-Saxon, heag, hedge; sugga, the sugga bird.)

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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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Irony of Fate (The)
Iroquois (An)
Irrefragable Doctor
Irrelevant
Irresistible
Irritable Genus (The)
Irspilles Felles
Irtish Ferry
Irus
Irvingites
Isaac
Isaac of York
Isabel
Isabella
Isabella
Isabelle or Isabella (in Orlando Furioso)
Isabelle
Isaf
Isenbras or Sir Isumbras
Isengrin or Sir Isgrim
Iseult

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