Traces the history of more than eleven hundred proverbs that are still in current use, offering detailed annotations and up-to-the-minute citations from around the English-speaking world.

Product Description: If foreign words and phrases are your "bete noire", here is a superb reference that offers coverage of over 8,000 foreign words and phrases that are in regular use in English today. Readers will find clear definitions of words such as "fandango," "futon," "falsetto," "basmati," "bistro," "nouvelle cousine"--and many other words found in everyday speech as well as in musical direction, the arts, food, medicine, science, literature and belles-lettres...read more

Describes the most important people, issues, and events in fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century Europe.

Product Description: This unique volume includes 5,000 idioms, alphabetically arranged by key word, covering metaphorical phrases, familiar quotations and proverbs, and similes. The history and date of origin of the idiom is given where possible, and some entries are supported by illustrative quotations as a guide to usage, from both past and present sources...read more

A fascinating guide to English's exotic side describes the origin, meaning, and usage of more than eight thousand words and expressions used in medicine, literature, music, philosophy, and other academic fields. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Proof of the principle, the more the merrier, this is an expanded edition of an ever-popular dictionary. Now reissued and updated, this invaluable work of reference provides the reader with over 1,000 of the best-known English proverbs from around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christian symbolism was once an international language - this book gives modern readers access to it.

Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' to 'Youth must be served'

Quotations are taken from selections of books from the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, and are also indexed by one or more key words and thematic headings

Product Description: Book by Speake, Jennifer

Identifies important writers, artists, composers, architects, and philosophers of the period, and discusses Renaissance ideas, events, discoveries, and customs

Collects a variety of quotes from the Old and New Testaments concerning subjects, including love, faith, righteousness, war, and peace