Gentlefolk, Winnow, Aghast, Emigrate, Cryptic, Ossify, Amenable, Desultory, Regnant, Doff, Gasconade, Jeopardise, Suborn, Adamantine, Brogue October 2, 2021May 25, 2023 adminWord of the Day …noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.How say you, sir? Can you deny all this? https://t.co/LZ478TG5fB 1/— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 18, 2021 The surging air receivesThe plumy burden; and their self-taught wingsWinnow the waving element. https://t.co/TOBhHqP9Ex— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 20, 2021 'What woful wight art thou, that in such heavy case Torments thyself with such despite, here in this desart place?' Wherewith as all aghast, fulfilled with ire and dread, He cast on me a staring look, with colour pale and dead: https://t.co/M1q9mabKvA 1/— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 20, 2021 …and as the youngest were obliged to emigrate farthest, afterwards dispersed themselves chiefly up the south of the Mediterranean sea, towards Lybia and Mauri∣tania, and might early mingle with some of the Cushites… https://t.co/gMIpmJtVyU 1/— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 23, 2021 The man seemed to me to be rambling. In my reduced and afflicted state his cryptic method of narrative irritated me. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said. https://t.co/63UHKPPPS1— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 24, 2021 …are indispensable, to counterbalance the inertness and fossilism making so large a part of human institutions. The latter will always take care of themselves–the danger being that they rapidly tendto ossify us. https://t.co/1LQ1c31BQB pic.twitter.com/8wbnTAZMxj— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 25, 2021 Abject of sinners is that sensitive, The flesh, amenable to stripes, miscalled Incorrigible: such title do we give To the poor shrinking stuff wherewith we are walled; And, taking it for Nature, place in ban Our Mother, as a Power wanton 1/ https://t.co/liavn3fFnF— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) August 29, 2021 …the crowds of Hindus began a desultory move back into the town. The image went back too, and on the following day underwent a private death of its own, when some curtains of magenta and green were lowered in front of the dynastic shrine. https://t.co/f8lVzeYlEh pic.twitter.com/x8oLMHgFgY— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 1, 2021 I saw him come…. And, lo, to hear The lilt of his approaching lute, No wonder that the regnant Year Bent down her beauty, blushing mute, Her heart beneath his foot. 1/https://t.co/kOr1FVyPg3— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 1, 2021 Not to such ordinary end as this Had Caponsacchi flung the cassock far, Doffed the priest, donned the perfect cavalier. https://t.co/cJQWthDgAJ— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 7, 2021 because she was willing to see the bottom of it, and whether it was a reality or a gasconade. She had indeed told him that, if he had any such commission, she would endeavour to find me out, but no more. https://t.co/IaY4QVFsit— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 7, 2021 …The male friend's interference looks amiss, Lends a suspicion: but suppose the wife, On the other hand, be jeopardized at home– Nay, that she simply hold, ill-groundedly, An apprehension she is jeopardized,–https://t.co/jZ6alf7UyC— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 7, 2021 Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery, Albeit they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs, Melted with tenderness and mild compassion, Wept like two children in their deaths' sad story. 1/ https://t.co/QoCufqGm1G— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 7, 2021 To his owne loue his loialtie he saued:Whose character in th'Adamantine mouldOf his true hart so firmely was engraued,That no new loues impression euer couldBereaue it thence: such blot his honour blemish should. 1/ https://t.co/muxFs7sRWX— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 8, 2021 There was, The open shoe. The close shoe. The slip shoe. The wooden shoe. The soc. The buskin. And The military shoe with hobnails in it, which Juvenal takes notice of. There were, The clogs. The pattins. The pantoufles. The brogues. The sandals, with… https://t.co/fmONLD8tsI— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 9, 2021