Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
“More shots and yells, a trumpet-blare, and then--then, ringing like
clarion over the turmoil of the fight, echoing far across the still
valley, the sound of a glorious voice shouting the well-known words of
command,--Left--front--into line--_gallop_.” And Dana can hold in no
longer. Almost sobbing, he cries aloud--
“Jack Truscott, by all that is glorious! I’d know the voice among a
million!” Who in the ----th would not? Who in the old regiment had not
leaped at its summons, time and again?--Charles King, _Marion’s Faith_
(1886).
=Trusty= (_Mrs._), landlady of the Queen’s Arms, Romford. Motherly,
most kind-hearted, a capital caterer, whose ale was noted. Bess, “the
beggar’s daughter,” took refuge with her, and was most kindly treated.
Mrs. Trusty wished her son, Ralph, to take Bess to wife, but Bess had
given her heart to Wilford, the son of Lord Woodville, her cousin.--S.
Knowles, _The Beggar of Bethnal Green_ (1834).
=Tryamour= (_Sir_), the hero of an old metrical novel, and the model
of all knightly virtues.
=Try´anon=, daughter of the fairy king who lived on the island of
Ole´ron. “She was as white as a lily in May, or snow that snoweth on a
winter’s day,” and her “haire shone as goldê wire.” This paragon of
beauty married Sir Launfal, King Arthur’s steward, whom she carried
off to “Oliroun, her jolif isle.”--Thomas Chestre, _Sir Launfal_
(fifteenth century).
=Trygon=, a poisonous fish. Ulysses was accidentally killed by his son
Telegŏnos with an arrow pointed with trygon-bone.
The lord of Ithăca,
Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone expired.
West, _Triumphs of the Gout_ (“Lucian” 1750).
=Tryphon=, the sea-god’s physician.
They send in haste for Tryphon, to apply
Salves to his wounds, and medicines of might;
For Tryphon of sea-god’s the sovereign leech is hight.
Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iii. 4 (1590).
=Tubal=, a wealthy Jew, the friend of Shylock.--Shakespeare, _The
Merchant of Venice_ (a drama, 1598).
=Tuck=, a long, narrow sword (Gaelic _tuca_, Welsh _twca_, Italian
_stocco_, French _estoc_). In _Hamlet_ the word “tuck” is erroneously
printed _stuck_ in Malone’s edition.
If he by chance escape your venomed tuck,
Our purpose may hold there.
Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, act iv. sc. 7.
_Tuck_, (_Friar_), the “curtal friar of Fountain’s Abbey,” was the
father confessor of Robin Hood. He is represented as a sleek-headed,
pudgy, paunchy, pugnacious clerical Falstaff, very fat and
self-indulgent, very humorous, and somewhat coarse. His dress was a
russet habit of the Franciscan order, a red corded girdle with gold
tassel, red stockings, and a wallet.
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