Monday 2 June 2008

Literary figures that could fly ...

Peter Pan, (Tinkerbell et al), Jacob Marley (accompanied by the Ghost of Christmas Future s/b Yet to Come), an unnamed cow (that jumped over the moon), Bladud (as recorded by Geoffery of Monmouth), possibly Titania and Oberon, Count Dracula, possibly Adam (from Paradise Lost), and certainly Mary Poppins. Eros is unconfirmed. Gloriana (or anything from the Arthurian canon) is unconfirmed. Phileas Fogg doesn’t count because he used a balloon.

See http://alt-usage-english.org/ucle/ucle9.html#colours

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