Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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m. Sharp, Engraver J~y EC A USE Boadicea, a British queen, the widow of the King of the I J Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted the plundering of her property by the Romans who were settled in England, she was scourged, by order of Catus, a Roman officer, and her two daughters tvere shamefully insulted in her presence, and her husbands relations were made slaves. To avenge this injury, the Britons rose, with all their might and rage Suetonius strengthened his army and advanced to give them battle. They strengthened their army and desperately attackedhis, on the field where it was strongly posted. Before the first charge of theBritons was made, Boadicea in a war-chariot, with her fair hair streamingin the wind, and her injured daughters lying at her feet, drove among thetroops and cried to them for vengeance on their oppressors, the licentiousRomans. The Britons fought to the last; but they were vanquished withgreat slaughter, and the unhappy queen took poison. Dickens Childs England.
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BOIS-GUILBERT W, BOLTON by the sibyl, sir Brian carries off Rebeccafrom the flames. The Grand-Master of theKnights Templars charges Rebecca withsorcery, and she demands a trial by com-bat. Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert is ap-pointed to sustain the charge against her,and Ivanhoe is her champion. Sir Brianbeing found dead in the lists, Rebecca isdeclared innocent.—Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe(time, Richard I.). Boisterer, one of the seven attendantsof Fortunio. His gift was that he couldoverturn a windmill with his breath, andeven wreck a man-of-war. Fortunio asked him what he was doing. Iam blovving a little, sii, answered he, to setthose mills at work. But, said the knight, you seem too far off. On the contrary, re-plied the blower, I am too near, for if I did notrestrain my breath I should blow the mills over,and perhaps the hill too on which they stand.—Comtesse DAunoy, Fairy Tales (Fortunio,1682). Bold Beauchanip (Beech-am), a pro-verbial phrase similar to an Achilles, aHector, etc. The

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