Teniers (The Scottish), Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).
Teniers of Comedy (The), Florent Carton Dancourt (1661-1726).
Tennessee’s Partner, camp-name for associate and co-worker with a dare-devil who runs away with the Partner’s wife, returns to camp without her, and is taken back amicably by the Partner. When Tennessee is tried for highway robbery the Partner offers “$1700 in coarse gold and a watch”--his whole fortune--to buy him off. The offer is refused; Tennessee is hanged. The Partner waits composedly, a little way from the gallows, with a mule and a cart. “When the gentlemen are done with the ‘diseased,’ he will take him.” “Ef thar is any present”--in his simple, serious way--“as would like to jine in the fun’l, they ken come.”--Bret Harte, Tennessee’s Partner (1871).
Tennis-Ball of Fortune (The), Pertinax, the Roman emperor. He was first a charcoal-seller, then a schoolmaster, then a soldier, then an emperor; but within three months he was dethroned and murdered (126-193; reigned from January 1 to March 28, A.D. 193).
Tent (Prince Ahmed’s), a tent given to him by the fairy, Pari-Banou. It would cover a whole army, yet would fold up into so small a compass that it might be carried in one’s pocket.--Arabian Nights.
Solomon’s carpet of green silk was large enough to afford standing room for a whole army, but might be carried about like a pocket-handkerchief.
The ship, Skidbladnir, would hold all the deities of Valhalla, but might be folded up like a roll of parchment.
Bayard, the horse of the four sons of Aymon, grew larger or smaller, as one or more of the four sons mounted on its back.--Villeneuve, Les Quatre Filz Aymon.
Tents (The father of such as dwell in), Jabal.--Gen. iv. 20.
Terebin´thus, Ephes-dammim, or Pasdammim.--1 Sam. xvii. 1.