Whiskers (technically called vibrissae) can aid with navigation and sensation. Whiskers may detect very small shifts in air currents, enabling a cat to know it...
On Sep 28, 2005, at 2:55 PM, xah lee wrote: That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; ...
Shakespeare's Titus, describing a girl's tongue being cut off: O, that delightful engine of her thoughts That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence Is torn...
BOY. Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia Follows me everywhere, I know not why. Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes! Alas, sweet aunt, I know not...
hai, i am new member of this group.I would like to get words daily from you. I am writing GRE exam on march 2006. Please kindly help me how to remember...
• stool pigeon | When consulted for the Buffalo Bill case, Lecter stubbornly refused to provide any mere “stool pigeon” leads, rather in an almost P.T....
Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives;...
Sokal and Bricmont identify French intellectuals as the driving force behind postmodernism, but point out that the movement has been broadly taken up by layers...
Sokal and Bricmont identify French intellectuals as the driving force behind postmodernism, but point out that the movement has been broadly taken up by layers...
Alaeddin; Or, The Wonderful Lamp. It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a...
—It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that when Alaeddin had come to his fifteenth year, it befel, one day of the days, that as he was sitting about the...
—It has reached me, O King of the Age, that the Maghrabi, the Magician, after leaving the Hammám with Alaeddin, took him and trudged with him to the...
Vampire In Myth Lithe, seductive, hypnotic creatures of the night who revel in bacchanalian pleasureseeking and live wild and erotic unlives. In Reality ...
“An thou do all I shall bid thee, indeed thou shalt become wealthier than any of the kings, and for this reason, O my son, I struck thee, because here lieth...
lyrics from movie musical Cabaret. ... MEIN HERR EMCEE Meine Damen und Herren. Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen; it is almost midnight! Husbands-...
turn-key Because there is no widely accepted standard for implementing a VPN, many companies have developed turn-key solutions on their own. In the next few...
The phrase poster child originally referred to a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable...
profligacy If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an...
2006-02-05 2006-02-05 lanyard It's rather a cultural oddity that most cellphones sold in US don't have lanyard hole, while in Far East, almost everyone...
lull The sensation of talking to the two men, however, is surprisingly similar. Normal conversation is like a game of tennis: you talk and I listen, you listen...
The Return of of the Arabian Nights! [• meet= proper. (archaic)] [• Levee= A reception held, as by royalty, upon arising from bed. (AHD)] [• divan=A...
cataract My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara;... Source: Gullivers Travels, Part 2 Chapter 8....
2006-03-10 ditty Meet Prussian Blue. The girls, Lynx and Lamb Gaede — who look barely old enough to play Mario Kart, let alone “awaken their race” — ...
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