The Abraham-men (alternative spellings: Abram-Man or Abraham Cove) were a class of beggars claiming to be lunatics allowed out of restraint, in the Tudor and Stuart periods in England.
双语例句
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With that one word -- united -- he invoked the full scope of Abraham Lincoln’s achievements and firmly established the direct relationship between the two men.
用联邦这个词,奥巴马总结了林肯的所有功绩,并且在这两个男人之间搭建了一种直接的联系。
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Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me