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twins: see multiple birth multiple birth, bringing forth of more than one offspring at birth. Although many smaller mammals bear several young at a time, multiple births are relatively uncommon in humans and other primates. ..... Click the link for more information. . Twins See also Doubles. Alcmena’s sons born in single delivery but conceived by two men. [Rom. Lit.: Amphitryon] identically named sons of Aegeon and Emilia. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors] twin brother and sister; children of Leta and Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 125–126] two sets of twins share adventures. [Children’s Lit.: Bobbsey Twins’ Mystery at Meadowbrook] sons of Leda and Zeus, placed in heaven as constellation Gemini. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 52] based on Plautus’s Menaechmi, with two sets of twins. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors] one twin instinctively feels what happens to other. [Fr. Lit.: The Corsican Brothers] Spartan brothers. [Gk. Myth.: Avery, 408; Leach, 314] twin principals of Greenleaf boarding school. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House] Dromio of Ephesus; Dromio of Syracuse. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors]
zodiacal twins; [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 1056] early comic strip featured incorrigible twins. [Comics: “The Captain and the Kids” in Horn, 421] Bastille prisoner learns that he is the twin brother of Louis XIV; conspirators planned to substitute him for the king. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas Vicomte de Bragellonne in Magill I, 1063] comedy, by Plautus, about mistakes involving identical twins. [Rom. Lit.: Menaechmi] short lookalike twins with derbies. [Comics: Horn, 492] born to Tamar; conceived by father-in-law, Judah. [O.T.: Genesis 38:29–30] suckled by she-wolf; founded Rome. [Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 320] Eng and Chang (1814–74), the original pair, were connected at the chest. [Medical Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 828] identical characters in children’s fantasy. [Br. Lit.: Through the Looking-Glass] symbol of twins; in particular, Castor and Pollux [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 343] |
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| Then the twins crumbled their bread on the ground, and the wrens pecked it, and chirruped and chirped. For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda, Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. The second of the twins was born; it was a boy, born dead. |
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