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Aesop fox evil, "a disease in which the hair falls off" (1842 Johnson Farmer's Encycl.), alopecia — Oxford English Dictionary, 2002 alopecia areata — baldness occuring in patches on the scalp, possibly caused by a nervous disturbance.
Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002
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Stratford-Town Shakespeare, vol. x; and in Encycl.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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The Encycl. of Gardening enumerates the whole of Mr. Evelyn's works.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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[65] Mr. Loudon, in his Encycl. of Gardening, fondly reviews the taste for flowers which pervaded most ranks during the time of Elizabeth, and
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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"Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum," vol. iii., p. 2004; Encycl. of Trees and Shrubs, 917.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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The Encycl. of Gardening informs us that he was "of a hospitable and benevolent disposition, taking great pleasure in presenting a rich dessert of fruit to his friends."
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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But it is important to bear in mind, as the same scholar has explained elsewhere [ "Life and Death (Egyptian)," _Hastings 'Encycl. _, p. 23]:
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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[69] Writer of the article Sir R. Peel, in Encycl.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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[7] See Ancient Hunters (1915); also Hastings's Encycl. art.
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[12] For a tracing of this taboo from useless superstition to practical utility see Hastings's Encycl.
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