Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 / A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

without waiting to put on his clothes, he ran

home, exclaiming, '

Heureka! heureka!

'"

Euro'pa. The Fight at Dame Europa's School, written by the Rev. H.W. Pullen, minor canon of Salisbury Cathedral. A skit on the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871).

Europe's Liberator. So Wellington was called after the overthrow of Bonaparte (1769-1852).

Oh, Wellington ... called "Saviour of the Nations"

And "Europe's Liberator."

Byron, Don Juan, ix. 5 (1824).

Eu'rus, the east wind; Zephyr, the west wind; No'tus, the south wind; Bo'reas, the north wind. Eurus, in Italian, is called the Lev'ant ("rising of the sun"), and Zephyr is called Po'nent, ("setting of the sun ").