The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and...
The host committee in Beijing also asked Tian to give a plenary address. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060828fa_fact2 MANIFOLD DESTINY A...
2006-08-25 altercation In 1881, Poincaré, who was then at the University of Caen, had an altercation with a German mathematician in Leipzig named Felix Klein....
2006-08-31 cob and pen Swans usually mate for life, though “divorce” does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure.... An adult male is a ...
2006-09-06 licentiousness This illustrious person had very usefully employed his studies, in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to...
2006-09-08 absconded Meanwhile, Akasha absconded with Lestat to remote places around the world, spreading her dictum that she is the “Queen of Heaven” with...
2006-09-23 scrivener The contemporary scriveners and printers, who between then provided our only sources, may have botched lines. Source: online forum post,...
2006-09-24 synecdoche The word [Acheron] is also occasionally used as a synecdoche for Hades itself. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheron. See also:...
2006-09-24 jasper Accordingly, he rose up and the Slave carried him in the space of an eye-glance to the pavilion which, when Alaeddin looked upon it struck ...
saunter And gradually she lost her fear, and he Offered his breast for her virgin caresses, His horns for her to wind with chains of flowers Until the princess...
cortége As soon as he came out he donned a dress more magnificent than the former and took horse with the Emirs and the soldier-officers riding before him and...
2006-09-29 impute To keep senators in the interest of the crown, it was proposed that the members should raffle for employment; every man first taking an oath,...
2006-09-29 jalousie Then Alaeddin preceded the Sultan till he conducted him to the upper Kiosque where he saw its skylights, windows and latticed casements and...
006-09-30 popish AARON. What if I do not? as indeed I do not; Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty...
2006-10-01 vale No vast obscurity or misty vale, Where bloody murder or detested rape Can couch for fear but I will find them out; And in their ears tell them...
2006-10-02 execrable Give sentence on the execrable wretch That hath been breeder of these dire events. Source: Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare, Act 5 Scene 3 ...
2006-10-03 Conscription He later commented that a part of reason he went to medical school was to avoid conscription and that he actually did not like seeing ...
2006-10-04 moiety Next morning Alaeddin arose to look at the jeweller's work and remarked that they had not finished a moiety of what was wanting to the...
2006-10-05 let rising without let or stay, he equipped himself and set forth for China-land, where he arrived in due season. Source: Aladdin by Sir Richard...
2006-10-07 pritee The Moorman replied, “The sum of my wishes is to look upon this pavilion and, if thou wouldest do me a favour, prithee guide me thereunto,...
2006-10-09 vascular This is typically known as “carb-loading.” The end result is an ultra-lean bodybuilder with full hard muscles and a dry, vascular ...
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