John Beaumont, a physician and geologist with an interest in the occult and witchcraft, published An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices in 1705. Explore his account of the events in Salem through…
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Gazette
MW I cannot deny that as every Gazette gave us some accounts of the conquests and victories of this glorious prince, it prepossessed my thoughts with secret wishes of seeing him, but these were so young and unsettled, that I…
Deference
MW The consequence I shall draw from this may, at first sight, appear a mere sophism; but upon the least examination will be found solid and satisfactory. I say then, that since we may suppose, but never can conceive a…
Pantechnic
OED These having been sufficiently gazed at, and beginning to lose their attractiveness except for the flies, and, truly, the boys also (in whom I find it impossible to repress, even during school-hours, certain oral and telegraphic communications concerning the…
Old man see day; heart said come night
We ordered all words in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by their frequency of occurrence (the content word vector). The first eight words are: 0.207 old0.174 man0.171 see0.168 day0.165 heart0.164 said0.160 come0.157 night Find the text and…
Turbid
MW It made him feel, in the turbid coil of his fears and passions, like a muddy tramp forcing his way into some pure sequestered shrine… He came nearer, and looked at her, and she went to him. All her…
Stromboli
OED stromboli, n. Origin: Stromboli, the name of a 1950 Italian-American film < Stromboli , the name of a volcanic island in the Mediterranean, one of the Lipari Islands (see Strombolian adj.).The name seems to have been an attempt to…
Slipshod
MW …but there in its usual slipshod way memory failed. Author and Text I watched, too, with the fascination that things have for an observant boy, the play of his lips–they were a little oblique, and there was something “slipshod,”…
Definitions of Love, Corinthians 13
Passage N 91 in “How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?” (LITERARY HUB, February 24, 2021) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.…
Fathom
MW “When the late Captain Audley Coote was laying the cable from New Caledonia to Sandy Cape, at the north end of Fraser Island, on the South Queensland coast, he passed a submerged mountain 6000 feet in height, and found…