—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” — ...
dirndl Their site features a photo gallery, primarily offering snaps of the duo sporting dirndls and relaxing on grassy hillocks, or playing with their infant...
2006-03-12 copasetic “All right, this is the way it's gonna work. We drop everybody off at their houses. Everybody's gonna sit tight until I go make sure ...
2006-03-16 insidious I haven't seen Xah in this newsgroup before, so for those of you who don't know him from the Perl or Python or other newsgroups he ...
belt for holding ammunition. In its original form, it was common issue to soldiers from the 16th to 18th centuries. A somewhat different form came into use in...
2006-05-02 truancy The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) took a cautious stand of discouraging truancy from school, and encouraging ...
2006-05-03 teenybopper He watches dreadful tv shows and movies, howling at the screen with a mixture of delight and loathing at the teenybopper drivel, and in...
He knew us by our countenances to be Englishmen, and jabbering to us in his own language, swore we should be tied back to back and thrown into the sea. ...
Thereupon the Sultan came down forthright from his seat of estate and, forbidding him to buss the carpet, embraced and kissed and seated him to the right of...
2006-06-27 loft That’s as far as you get with the dome kit: a plywood shell. It looks like an enormous accomplishment, but it is really only about one...
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