(Irish) an affectionate term of address; esp. as my old flower. 1829 1850190019502000 2006 [1829 ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ XLIV in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. June 794: I was not speaking to you, my old flower of Aldgate]. 1901 Coventry Eve. Teleg. 17 Oct. 3/3: That’s my gay old...
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. — Edmund Barton 74 If the primary purpose of school was edu...
In reality, day and night are notexactlyequal on the equinox. Daytime begins the momentany partof the Sun appears over the horizon and is not finished until the last part of the Sun disappears below the horizon. If the Sun were to shrink to a starlike point—and we lived in a world w...
will find inIsmay’s Childrena novel to their mind. . . . In spite of the gleams of gaiety which must find their way into any picture of Irish life, the book as a whole is a very sombre one. Still, sombre as it is, it is too rich in beauty, impressiveness, and pathos to be...
Young Tandy of the Temple, Lord Skibbereen's younger son, who sate in the House for some time on the Irish Catholic side, was also deeply smitten, and many a night in our walks home from the parties at the other end of the town, would entertain me with his admiration and passion for...
20 eggs (Irish Free State)2 oz. ground cinnamon (Ceylon)1 ½ oz. ground cloves (Zanzibar)1 ½ oz. ground nutmegs (Straits Settlements)1 teaspoonful pudding spice (India)1 gill brandy (Cyprus)2 gills rum (Jamaica)2 quarts old beer (England)This was prepared by “the usual method” ...