Chapter Garratt to Gavroche of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

wreak vengeance on Geoffrey Haredale, he incites the rioters to burn “The Warren,” where Haredale resided. Gashford commits suicide.—Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Gaspar or Caspar [“the white one”], one of the three Magi or kings of Cologne. His offering to the infant Jesus was frankincense, in token of divinity.

(The other two were Melchior (“king of light”), who offered gold, symbolical of royalty; and Balthazar (“lord of treasures”), who offered myrrh, to denote that Christ would die. Klopstock, in his Messiah, makes the number of the Magi six, not one of which names agrees with those of Cologne Cathedral. See Cologne, p. 226.)

Gaspard, the steward of count De Valmont, in whose service he had been for twenty years, and to whom he was most devotedly attached.—Dimond: The Foundling of the Forest.

Gaspero, secretary of state, in the drama called The Laws of Candy, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). (Beau mont died 1616.)

Gaster (Master), the ruler of an island which appears rugged and barren, but is really fertile and pleasant. He is the first master of arts in the world.—Rabelais: Pantagruel, bk. iv. (1545).

Gastrolaters, inhabitants of the island Gaster. Probably the monks.—Rabelais: Pantagruel, bk. iv. (1545).

Gate of France (Iron), Longwy, a strong military position.

Gate of Italy, that part o f the valley of the Adigê which is in the vicinity of Trent and Roveredo. It is a narrow gorge between two mountain ridges.

Gate of Tears [Babelmandeb], the passage into the Red Sea.

Like some ill-destined bark that steers
In silence through the Gate of Tears.
   —Moore: Lalla Rookh (“The Fire-Worshippers,” 1817).

Gates (Iron) or Demir Kara, a celebrated pass of the Teuthras, through which all caravans between Smyrna and Brasa must needs pass.

Gates of Cilicia [pylœ Ciliciœ], a defile connecting Cappadocia and Cilicia. Now called the Pass of Gölek Bógház.

Gates of Syria [pylœ Syriœ], a Beilan pass. Near this pass was the battle-field of Issus (B.C. November, 333).

Gates of the Caspian [pylœ Caspiœ), a rent in the high mountain-wall south of the Caspian, in the neighbourhood of the modern Persian capital.

Gates of the Occult Sciences (The), forty, or as some say forty-eight, books on magic, in Arabic. The first twelve teach the art of sorcery and enchantment, the thirteenth teaches how to disenchant and restore bodies to their native shapes again. A complete set was always kept in the Dom-Daniel or school for magic in Tunis.—Continuation of the Arabian Nights (“History of Maugraby”).

Gath, Brussels, where Charles II. resided in his exile.—Absalom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate.

Give not insulting Askalon to know,
Nor let Gath’s daughter triumph in our woe.
   —Pt. ii., 66 lines from the end.

Gatheral (Old), steward to the duke of Buckingham.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).