2007-01-02 copious it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been often apt to amuse myself with visions of...
2007-01-02 sonorousness The tact and skill which suffice to avert a Woman's sting are unequal to the task of stopping a Woman's mouth; and as the wife has ...
2007-01-03 demur «In the myth sung by the bard in the hall of Alcinous (Odyssey viii. 300ff) the Sun-God, Helios, once spied Ares and Aphrodite enjoying each...
2007-01-03 whole cloth Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. One part, largely later ...
2007-01-04 avarice Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and ...
2007-01-07 grist These and other historical matters became grist for the mills of his imagination, and by his treatment they provide transforming revelations...
2007-04-27 higgledy-piggledy «I have that book. It is passing strange, lots of nice bits but all higgledy-piggledy. Made me wonder if this was a sign of a...
2007-07-27 internecine Sometime between the eighteenth century European visits to the Island and the mid nineteenth century all of the Moai that had been...
2007-07-28 lassitude On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy, lassitude, ...
vitiated Boolos was an authority on the 19th-century German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege. Boolos proved a conjecture due to Crispin Wright (and...
augury The bog bodies seem consistently to have been members of the upper class: their fingernails are manicured and tests on hair protein routinely record...
2007-08-29 sortie He [Peter Vladimirov] also expressed frustration at not being allowed by the Chinese Communists to visit the frontline, although as a foreign...
whitewash The Japanese invasion of its neighbours is often glorified or whitewashed, and wartime atrocities, most notably the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women,...
rove Only my affectionate Wife, alarmed by my continued absence, had quitted her room and was roving up and down in the Hall, anxiously awaiting my return. ...
altercation In the 2000s, Crumb became increasingly ambivalent about continuing to contribute to new issues of Zap. By issue #14 he announced to the other...
wool-gathering For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. Time Machine, chapter 2, by H G Wells. http://xahlee.org/p/time_machine/tm-ch02.html ☄...
2007-09-18 plume You profess to see, whereas you see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I can see ...
2007-09-22 abroad But I was troubled and made restless by my wife's absence and could not sleep, for although my eyes were closed, my mind and thoughts were...
strained The porter was so dazzled he could hardly believe that he heard her aright, but he shouldered his basket in hot haste, saying in himself, “O day of...
2007-09-26 heist ... in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a...
2007-10-18 purloin The penis of Napoleon was reportedly severed at his autopsy, and purloined: it was some years later sold to a urologist for $40,000. ...
2007-10-19 contumacious Thereupon she calls her winged son Cupid, mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints....
fledge The previous two posts by Barry Margolin and Kent M Pitman are really good paradigm. Good as paragon of stupid writings. Full fledged in all aspects....
2007-10-25 viand But man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which...
2007-10-27 declivity The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore ... Gullivers Travels, part 1 chapter 1 (Jonathan Swift) ...
2007-10-29 carousing Now my cousin and I were sworn friends, for he ever entreated me with exceeding kindness. He killed for me the fattest sheep and strained ...
fecundity The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his...
