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Melia, maidservant at Dr Blimber's school, who helped little Paul Dombey to dress, then rubbed his hands to warm them, gave him a kiss and told him "whenever he wanted anything of that sort - meaning in the dressing way - to ask for Melia". Merdle, Mr and Mrs Mr Merdle is an unscrupulous banker in Little Dorrit. His enterprises lead to the ruin ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Mr Robert Waller, Head of the Cash Department, an amiable sort, but a secret socialist; Mr Prebble, an unintelligible socialist orator; Joe Jackson, one of Mike's brothers, an M.C.C. player; Reggie Jackson, another cricket playing brother; Billy Windsor, a New York journalist befriended by Psmith Pugsy Maloney, the office-boy at Windsor's paper
The haughty princess is the story of a princess who turns away all her suitors. Her father in time is tired of searching for suitors for his ungrateful daughter, and says that, in retaliation for her ungratefulness, he will give her to the first beggar who comes calling. the next day a hairy beggar comes at the break of dawn asking for the princess' hand in marriage and it is given.
Hathi appears in the 1967 animated adaptation by Walt Disney Productions, where he is voiced by J. Pat O'Malley.He is a comically pompous elephant who styles himself after a British Army colonel, referring to himself as "Colonel Hathi" and leading his troop in a marching patrol around the jungle.
HMS Haughty (1797) was a 12-gun gunboat built at Gravesend in 1797 and disposed of in 1802. HMS Haughty (1804) was a 14-gun gun-brig built in 1804. She was disposed of in 1816. HMS Haughty (1856) was an Albacore-class wood screw gunboat launched in 1856 and sold in 1867. HMS Haughty (1895) was a Hardy-class "Twenty-seven knotter" destroyer. She ...