MW The newspapers were at this time full of the pending strike of coal-miners and shearers: that is, the Australian papers. The European papers were in a terrific stew about finance, and the German debt, and the more imposing Allied…
Month: April 2021
Vendetta
MW Then the meaning of Earth in her children behold:Glad eyes, frank hands, and a fellowship real:And laughter on lips, as the birds’ outburstAt the flooding of light. No robbery thenThe feast, nor a robber’s abode the home,For a furnished…
Savvy
MW “Everybody make medicine,” he said lightly. And when I asked him if he were himself a good practitioner–“No savvy,” he replied, more lightly still. At length the leaves burst in a flame, which he continued to feed; a thick,…
Deliquescent
“The stalwart ignorance of it! Little Latin and less Greek even Ben Jonson allowed our William, and manifestly he was fed on Tudor translations. And the illiteracy of Michael Angelo is just an inspiration of Chamberlain’s. He knows his readers.…
Brusque
MW At the name of Haldin falling from the rapid and energetic lips of the woman revolutionist, Razumov had the usual brusque consciousness of the irrevocable. But in all the months which had passed over his head he had become…
Hare
MW But to make vp my tale,She breweth noppy ale,And maketh therof port saleTo trauellars, to tynkers,To sweters, to swynkers,And all good ale drynkers,That wyll nothynge spare,But drynke tyll they stareAnd brynge themselfe bare,With, Now away the mare, And let…
Pasch
pasch, n.Forms: Old English pasca, late Old English–Middle English paschesOrigin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin pascha; French pasche.Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin paschaNow archaic and historical. Passover; the Passover feast.OE—2001(Show…
Brummagem
But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes. There would be a fall and the…
Pertain: To Fantasy pertains to choose
MW To Fantasy pertains to choose.All this I know : for FantasyFirst unto love did me induce ;But yet I know as steadfastly,That if love have no faster knot,So nice a choice slips suddenly ; It lasteth not.It lasteth not,…