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word of the day: outlying,wretches, wheedling,abasing,doffed, slop, leavings, I rose and followed her as she left the palace and she threaded the streets until...
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word of the day: precipice, sorrowing, cupola, cenotaph, affliction,longsome. When I saw my wife, my cousin, the daughter of my uncle, do this deed, I clean...
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word of the day: cur, garth, gramarye,tarn, Nazarene, Magian, scourge, stripes, haircloth, strait. "O thou tomb! O thou tomb! Be his beauty set in shade? Hast...
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Jan 2, 2005
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word of the day: mausoleum, unguent, celice. After this the Sultan turned toward the young Prince and said: "O youth, thou hast removed one grief only to add...
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Jan 2, 2005
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word of the day: cuss, hubby, leave, whilom, smote. Now when she heard these words she shouted for joy, and fell to the ground fainting, and when her senses...
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Jan 3, 2005
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word of the day: girt, issue, Mamelukes, stinted, largess, solace. Quoth the King, °ƒWilt thou abide in this city, or go with me to my capital?°± Quoth the...
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Dear Wordy English group members, This is the real story of mine and would like to share it with you about the power of Lord Jesus and what a prayer can do for...
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Jan 4, 2005
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with the help of OED, we learned that: [• egromancy = obsolete variant of Necromancy (OED). Related words of divination ending in mancy includes: bibliomancy...
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Jan 5, 2005
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http://xahlee.org/p/arabian_nights/an4.html (annotation has been improved, after a trip to library to use OED)...
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Jan 5, 2005
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word of the day: mantilla, broidered, brocade, fringed, jetty, blandishing, suavest, strained, hamper, auspicious, propitious, quinces ... THE PORTER AND THE...
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word of the day: confection, sweetmeat, fritter, cuff, nape, ambergris, greengrocer, sallower, tarragon. So he lifted and followed her till she stopped at a...
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Jan 6, 2005
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word of the day: heifer, gazzelle, camomile, in fine, indite, waylaid, groined, filberts. Presently the door swung back and both leaves were opened, whereupon...
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Jan 8, 2005
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word of the day: gramarye, camelian, marquetry, wend, goodlier, dirhams, minaret, flageolet. Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee, with brow beaming brilliancy,...
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Jan 9, 2005
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word of the day: flageolet, myrtle, anemone. A spectacular poetry repartee. “Seest not we want for joy four things all told- The harp and lute, the flute...
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Jan 9, 2005
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word of the day: whereto, procuratrix, interposed, frowardness, girdle, strained, flask, flagon, crowned. Whereto the lady portress added, “If thou bring...
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word of the day: Mameluke, thrall, bondsman, boons, ritornellos, cuff, houris, wend, suffer, tarry, thereanent. Then the cateress crowned a cup and gave it to...
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Jan 11, 2005
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word of the day: carousing, lo, seance, monoculars, mustachios, salammed, wight, medicant. So he rose and went to the entrance and there found written in...
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Jan 12, 2005
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yesterday there's this poem cited by the inebriated porter: “Here! Here! By Allah, here! Cups of the sweet, the dear! Fill me a brimming bowl, The Fount o'...
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Jan 12, 2005
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in translation a Chinese poem, am bumped into “lachrymose” while looking up synonyms for weeping. It means: 1. Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful. 2....
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Jan 13, 2005
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word of the day: paupers, consumedly, squabble, withal, Caliph, caravanserai, wassail, khan, suffer, tarry. But when the porter heard these words, he rose up...
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word of the day: pilgrimage, gat, obeisance, devoir,estrade. The portress looked upon them and, seeing them dressed like merchants and men of gave looks and...
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word of the day: scourge, sconce,juniper, pargetted, quatrain. garring, alight, agnomy, aright, malady, bane, blight, pine., gree. So he went to help her and...
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Jan 15, 2005
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I know you're all trying to quit, lol, like I am, but while your still addicted to the stuff you may aswell make a big big saving. I have used these guys for a...
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Jan 15, 2005
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word of the day: elegy, raiment, goodly gree, whither,truchman. When the damsel heard this elegy in quatrains, she cried out “Alas! Alas!†and rent her...
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word of the day: rigor, rife, ruth, troth, overthrow,mounds, recking, compact, rede. Now when the portress heard her second ode, she shrieked aloud and said:...
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Jan 18, 2005
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An Introduction to Sir Burton's Arabian Nights http://xahlee.org/p/arabian_nights/preamble.html Xah xah@... http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html...
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Jan 18, 2005
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word of the day: jangle, bastinadoed, pinion, praters, mortifications,deserts, fakir, suzerain, hammal, vintner. Then words ran high and talk answered talk,...
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word of the day: carousing, appareled, sepulcher, adze, hoe, wicket, vaulted, repented, penitence, engrossed, hearkening. 6. THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE Arabian...
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Jan 19, 2005
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word of the day: scruples, pinioned, usurper,prepense, foeman, shaft, brand, dexter, railer, gibe, succor. Then my torture of scruples grew upon me till I...
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