MW Quotations and Authors: “Then must I hew a passage,” cried the stranger, with his shoulder braced round and his hand upon his hilt. “I am not to be stopped on the king’s service by every gadabout.” “Should you be…
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Garden Pot
The OED Quotations and Authors: MOON. [within.] Here, mistress.NIGHT. How now, Ursula? in a heat, in a heat?URS. My chair, you false faucet you; and my morning’s draught,quickly, a bottle of ale, to quench me, rascal. I am all fire…
Nostrum
MW Quotations and Authors: I am most apprehensive about Miss Howe. She has a confounded deal of wit, and wants only a subject, to shew as much roguery: and should I be outwitted with all my sententious boasting of conceit…
Cod’s Head
The OED Quotations and Authors: She that, being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly;She that in wisdom never was so frailTo change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail;She that could think and ne’er…
Pet
The OED PET n. 3 Offence at being or feeling slighted; a fit of peevishness or ill humour from this cause, (now) esp. a childish sulk. Frequently in in a pet. Also to take (the) pet: to take offence, to become bad-tempered or sulky…
Categorical
Word of the Day: MW Quotations and Authors: Now, Belford, I had really some apprehension of treachery from thee; which made me so miserably evade; for else, I could as safely have sworn to the truth of this, as to…
Words of the Day: December 19 2020 – January 28 2021
To explore quotations for the OED or Merriam-Webster Word of the Day 19/12/2020-28/1/2021, follow this link. Jeopardy Itinerant Ear-tickling Obeisance Insouciance Sarcophagus Gulosity Conjecture Preeminent Modicum Effusive Servile Nevvy Rapport Pedantic Treason Haet Devious Pugilism Comely Megrim Dissociate Apologia Feckless…
‘Spontaneous’ across centuries: 1658 – 1921; ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ – a fashionable metaphor? (Dickens, Bronte, Melville, Joyce); the concept of ‘Spontaneous’ and ‘Spontaneity’ in Lawrence’s Fantasia of the Unconscious
Our collage ‘Quotations, Authors and Literary Works’ was inspired by the Word of the Day ‘Spontaneous‘ posted by Merriam-Webster on 10/12/2020. In the collage, we show you the quotations with ‘Spontaneous’ from different centuries without disclosing the name of the…
The Kings last wife contrived to survive him, but with difficulty effected it.
In her book “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” (https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/russ-how-to-suppress-womens-writing), Joanna Russ discusses methods that society uses to undermine the work of women writers. The excerpts that follow below describe “some unpleasant possibilities” (Joanna Russ’ words) of the kinds of treatment…
Give me a Quill Pulled from that Eagles Wing!
Our Recent Additions (Full Library) Jesus Praefigured; Abbot, George (Literature of the Sacred) 1623 An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices; Beaumont, John 1705 The Castle of Otranto; Walpole, Horace 1764 From an…