Chapter Afrit or Afreet to AGNES of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

A very similar tale is told of George III. When the footman announced the name of the caller, George III. inquired if the stranger was a father, and being answered in the affirmative, replied, “Then let him be admitted.”

Agib (King), “The Third Calender” (Arabian Nights’ Entertainments). He was wrecked on the loadstone mountain, which drew all the nails and iron bolts from his ship; but he overthrew the bronze statue on the mountain-top, which was the cause of the mischief. Agib visited the ten young men, each of whom had lost his right eye, and was carried by a roc to the palace of the forty princesses, with whom he tarried a year. The princesses were then obliged to leave for forty days, but entrusted him with the keys of the palace, with free permission to enter every room but one. On the fortieth day curiosity induced him to open this room, where he saw a horse, which he mounted, and was carried through the air to Bagdad. The horse then deposited him, and knocked out his right eye with a whisk of its tail, as it had done the ten “young men” above referred to.

Agincourt (The Battle of), a poem by Michael Drayton (1627). The metre is like that of Byron’s Don Juan.

Agitator (The Irish), Daniel O’Connell (1755–1847).

Agned Cathregonion, the scene of one of the twelve battles of king Arthur. The old name of Edinburgh was Agned.

Ebraucus, a man of great stature and wonderful strength, took upon him the government of Britain, which he held forty years.… He built the city of Alelud [? Dumbarton] and the town of Mount Agned, called at this time the “Castle of Maidens,” or the “Mountain of Sorrow.”—Geoffrey: British History, ix. 7.

Agneia , wifely chastity, sister of Parthenia or maiden chastity. Agneia is the spouse of Encratês or temperance. Fully described in canto x. of The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). (Greek, agneia, “chastity.”)

AGNES, daughter of Mr. Wickfield the solicitor, and David Copperfield’s second wife (after the death of Dora, “his child-wife”). Agnes is a very pure, self-sacrificing girl, accomplished yet domestic.—Dickens: David Copperfield (1849).