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and was completed in 1671.”- Cassell's Magazine, London Legends, x

Leigh (Aurora) (pron. Lee). The heroine of Mrs. Browning's poem so called, designed to show the noble aim of true art.

Leilah [Li-lah]. A beautiful young slave, the concubine of Hassan, Caliph of the Ottoman Empire. She falls in love with the Giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, and cast into the sea. (Byron: The Giaour.)

Lely (Sir Peter), the painter, was the son of Vander Vaas or Faes, of Westphalia, whose house had a lily for its sign. Both father and son went by the nickname of Le-lys (the Lily), a sobriquet which Peter afterwards adopted as his cognomen.

Leman (Lake). Geneva, called in Latin Lemannus.

“Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face.”
Lord Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 68.

Lemnian Deed (A). One of unusual barbarity and cruelty. The phrase arose from two horrible massacres perpetrated by the Lemnians: the first was the murder of all the men and male children on the island by the women; and the other was the murder by the men of all the children born in the island of Athenian parents.