word of the day: ware, briny, aught, chops. Then I rejoiced, O my lady, with exceeding joy and said, "What boon shall I crave of thee?" He replied, "Ask me...
word of the day:cubits, stay, overboard. He then gave us the scroll, which measured ten cubits long by a breadth of one, and each of the merchants who knew how...
word of the day: wroth, accursed, munificence, mirth, agag, tupsy-turvy, Chamberlain Then I gave the scroll to the officials, and after we all had written our ...
word of the day:lieges, livelong. Thereupon he ordered the lieges to retire, and when none remained save the King's Majesty, the eunuch on duty, and a little...
word of the day: egromantic (necromancy), hend, cresset, trenchant, piebald. Then he asked his daughter, “Whence knewest thou that he is ensorceled?” and ...
a prince of letters and science rendered vagrant by lady fate fortuity gave him a mistress that a concubine of an afrit upon conceit of a binge spelled doom...
word of the day:lowe, estade, castrato The cock fell to crowing and clapping his wings and signing to us with his beak as if to ask, “Are any grains left?”...
word of the day: exhort, weal, gainsay, raiment, chamberlain, grandee. Then she cried out: “The fire! The fire! O my dear Papa, an arrow from the accursed...
word of the day:well-nigh, wend, poll, mustachios. Then the Sultan fell sick of a sickness that well-nigh brought him to his death for a month's space, and...
word of the day: lieges, sconces, garrisons, main, pleasance, keel, victual, buffet, gale. 8. THE THIRD KALANDAR'S TALE Arabian Nights, Sir Richard Burton,...
word of the day:reckoning,swarmed, lea, loadstone... Presently the current ran counter to us, and we found ourselves in strange waters, where the Captain had...
ennui | What set the book apart from its predecessors in the vampire genre was its confessional tone offering the point-of-view of the vampire himself and...
* machination | these boys... it's not their own idea, ... that drives them to go out and hurt Lavinia... it comes from the machination of Aaron the Moor....
* quicksilver | violence is something that's so quicksilver... it can come and go... it's just a snap of emotion here and there, it's so easy to manipulate, to...
word of the day: praticable, hewn, breasted, skiff. Then, O my lady, the Captain wept with exceeding weeping and we all made sure of death doom and each and...
word of the day: in the offing, islet, holm, girt, hoe. Then I started up from my sleep in joy and gladness and, hastening to do the bidding of the mysterious...
racy | Lilli was a gold-digging character from a "racy" comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin? for die Bild Zeitung?, and the Lilli doll began to be sold in...
word of the day: gars, balk, roe, stinted, fin up, millstone, nosegays, poses. After this the slaves again went on board and brought back with them garments as...
word of the day: fakirs, nativities, latten. When he was assured that I was of his kind and no Jinni, he rejoiced and his fine color returned, and, making me...
word of the day:cark, tarry, sweetmeat, requite, fumigating When I heard his history I marveled and said in my mind, “I am the Prince Ajib who hath done all...
word of the day: lupin, lief. And thus I continued to do, O my lady, for days and nights, and affection for him took root in my heart and my sorrow was eased,...
word of the day: cleaving, afeard, respite, strewed, redouble. When I was certified that I had slain him, I arose and, ascending the stairs, replaced the...
word of the day: redouble, hearth, ford... But the old man, O my lady, ceased not from his swoon till near sunset, when he came to himself and, looking upon...
word of the day: concourse, circumstantial, veracity, bearings. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) THE...
word of the day: burnished,mazer, sheikh, ordinary, buffet, frowardness, openhearted, froclick. And when I drew near the fire aforesaid, lo! it was a palace...
word of the day: interpolator,innuendo, yahoos, suffer, tincture, precept, levees. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR...
word of the day: ordinary, roe, scruple, pelt. After we had eaten and drunken we sat conversing and carousing in companionage till the noon of night, when they...
word of the day: new-fangled, censure, amendment, aprobation, vexation, forbear. (from A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON. WRITTEN IN THE...
word of the day: chaplets, contumacious, mortification,nuptial, pomp, admonition. Cupid and Psyche by Lucius Apuleius, thru Thomas Bulfinch A certain king and...
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