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s against the dogaressa. This insult was referred to "The Forty," and Steno was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, which the doge considered a very inadequate punishment for the offence.--Byron, _Marino Faliero_. The character of the calm, pure-spirited Angiolina is developed most admirably. The great difference between her temper and that of her fiery husband is vividly portrayed, but not less vividly touched is that strong bond of union which exists in the common nobleness of their deep natures. There is no spark of jealousy in the old man's thoughts. He does not expect the fervor of youthful passion in his young wife; but he finds what is far better--the fearless confidence of one so innocent that she can scarcely believe in the existence of guilt.... She thinks Steno's greatest punishment will be "the blushes of his privacy."--Lockhart. ANGLAN'TE'S LORD, Orlando, who was lord of Anglante and knight of Brava.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516). AN'GLIDES (3 _syl_.), wife of good prince Boud'wine (2 _syl_.), brother to sir Mark king of Cornwall ("the falsest traitor that ever was born"). When king Mark slew her husband, Anglides and her son Alisaunder made their escape to Magounce (_i.e. Arundel_), where she lived in peace, and brought up her son till he received the honor of knighthood.--Sir T. Malory, _Hist, of Pr. Arthur_, ii. 117, 118 (1470). AN'GUISANT, king of Erin (_Ireland_), subdued by king Arthur fighting in behalf of Leod'ogran king of Cam'eliard (3 _syl_.).--Tennyson, _Coming of King Arthur_. ANGULE (_St._), bishop of London, put to death by Maximia'nus Hercu'lius, Roman general in Britain in the reign of Diocletian. St. Angule put to death, one of our holiest men, At London, of that see the godly bishop then. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxiv. (1622). ANGURVA'DEL, Frithiof's sword, inscribed with Runic characters, which blazed in time of war, but gleamed dimly in time of peace. ANICE, the woman who steals Fenn's fancy, rather than his heart, from his wife, in George Parsons Lathrop's story, _An Echo of Passion_ (1882). ANIMULA, beauteous being revealed in a drop of water by a microscope of extraordinary and inconceivable power.--_The Diamond Lens_, by Fitz-James O'Brien (1854). ANJOU (_The Fair Maid of_), lady Edith Plantagenet, who married David earl of Huntingdon (a royal prince of Scotland). Edith was a kinswoman of Richard Coeur de Lion, and
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