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Rhodian Bully (The)

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The colossus of Rhodes.

“Yet fain wouldst thou the crouching world bestride

Just like the Rhodian bully oʹer the tide.”


Peter Pindar: The Lusiad, canto 2.

 

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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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Reynardine
Reynold of Montalbon
Rezio
Rhadamanthos
Rhampsinitos
Rhapsody
Rhene
Rhine or Rhineland
Rhino
Rhodalind
Rhodian Bully (The)
Rhodian Law
Rhone
Rhopalic Verse (wedgs-verse)
Rhyme
Rhymer
Rhyming to Death
Ribaldry
Ribbon Dodge (The)
Ribbonism
Ribston Pippin