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GENTLE SHEPHERD

Specialty Definition: GENTLE SHEPHERD

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Literature

Gentle Shepherd (The). George Grenville, the statesman, a nickname derived from a line applied to him by Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham. Grenville, in the course of one of his speeches, addressed the House interrogatively, "Tell me where? tell me where?" Pitt hummed a line of a song then very popular, "Gentle shepherd, tell me where?" and the House burst into laughter (1712-1720). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GENTLE SHEPHERD

Specialty definitions using "GENTLE SHEPHERD": Daphnis. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GENTLE SHEPHERD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

daylily gentle shepherd

3

gentle shepherd

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GENTLE SHEPHERD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-g-h-h-l-n-p-r-s-t"

-5 letters: deepeners, ensphered, genteeler, greenlets, presented, presentee, repetends, repledges, sheltered, steepened, telphered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GENTLE SHEPHERD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 4E 54 4C 45      53 48 45 50 48 45 52 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001100 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0054 004C 0045      0053 0048 0045 0050 0048 0045 0052 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41394854463925342395042395238

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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