Chapter Alexandrine Age to All cannot do all of A by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Alifanfaron the giant. Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he mistook for Grecian princes.

Alilat The name by which the Arabs adore nature, which they represent by a crescent moon.

Aliprando (in Jerusalem Delivered). One of the Christian knights. Having discovered the armour of Rinaldo cast on one side, he took it to Godfrey, who very naturally inferred that Rinaldo had been slain. (See Gen. xxxvii. 31--35.)

Aliris Sultan of Lower Bucharia. Under the disguised name of Feramorz, he accompanied Lalla Rookh, his betrothed, from Delhi, and won her heart by his ways, and the tales he told on the journey. The lady fell in love with the poet, and was delighted to find, on the morning of the wedding, that Feramorz was, in fact, the sultan, her intended husband. - T. Moore: Lalla Rookh.

Al Kader (the Divine decree). A particular night in the month Ramadhan, when the Arabs say that angels descend to earth, and.Gabriel reveals to man the decrees of God. - Al Koran, ch. xcviii.

Alkahest The hypothetical universal solvent. The word was invented by Paracelsus.

Al Rakim (pronounce Rah-keem) The dog in the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

Al-Sirat (Arabian, the path) The bridge over hell, no wider than the edge of a sword, across which every one who enters heaven must pass. (Mahometan theology.)

All Everything. "Our all," everything we possess.

"Our all is at stake." Addison: State of War.

All and Some "One and all." (Old English, ealle æt somme, all at once, altogether.)

"Now stop your noses, readers, all and some." Dryden: Absalom and Achiptophel.

All and Sundry All without exception.

"He invited all kind and sundry to partake freely of the oaten cake and ale." - Hall Caine.

All cannot do all Horace says, "Non omnia possumus omnes." German proverb, "Ein jeder kann nicht alles." All are not equally clever. Or rather, "Be not surprised that I cannot do what you can do, for we are not all exactly alike."